"No, that he will run left and split the GOP as a result."
The GOP is already split.
"The GOP is already split."
And do you not think it will split much more if a leftist "republican" wins the nomination?
So the solution of the Rudy boosters is to split it even further apart?
Do you really think Rudy can foresake large swaths of the social conservative vote, and make up for it running leftward as a pro-war candidate into moderate independents and Dems who get signficiantly pro-war the more leftward one goes?
Or will you just follow the Rockefeller Repubican path of "leftward ho!" in your quixotic quest to restore the country club Republican vision of the perpetual minority party, but one that doesn't have to deal with all those annoying Bible-thumping pro-life and pro-gun rubes?