"For Republicans, there really is no other choice."
I appreciate your post and the logic that you use. However, it is way too early to conclude that there is "no other choice". Let's wait and see what happens between now and the next few months. I will be open to voting for Rudy in the general election, but you should consider being open to supporting someone else in the primaries who will be both a good social conservative and a good war president. Let's not decide now that Rudy is the only Republican that is capable of doing this.
Your point is valid. I did not mean to suggest that the iussue has already been decided, rather that IMHO, no other Repbulican candidate has yet shown the ability to unite the party and emerge as the nominee.. There are many I could easily, and happily, support..Hinter, Tancredo, as examples..