I'm a true conservative ...As all of the above, and a Benefactor Life Member of the NRA (I've put LOTS of money where my mouth is), I will apply the SAME criteria you mention above for ALL candidates for higher office, NOT just, as you suggest, only members of the "house and senate". I'd rather have a man who is proud to mention that he is a supporter and defender of the 2nd, one that will gladly say that he owns firearms and hunts, say, someone like Vice President Cheney, than a deceitful, duplicitous little gun-grabbing inner-city maggot like RINO-rudy....
My friend, if you can get Mr. Cheney to run I will support him over Rudy in a heartbeat...no pun intended. It AIN'T HAPPENING though. So who do we have to choose from? Who will get the nomination? Odds are it is Rudy or McCain. Of those two, I like Rudy better. Yes, I apply the 2nd amendment test to ALL politicians, not JUST house & senate, but I'm not going to waste my vote on a "write-in".
Odds are much greater that polls this far out are pretty meaningless.