Well, I do believe in some litmus tests as well as millions of other socons. Rudy fails those tests. Rudy would split the base, which is something the republican party cannot afford.
Now, I know you read my post because you're claiming that your baseball analogy still stands, and yet you skip over my perspective on the polls to tell me to read all the polls. In the sentence right before I say that your analogy falls apart, there is:
But if it's because you don't think Hunter is "electable", I'm not buying it. Rudy splits the base and didn't even win in a head-to-head poll against Hillary in his own state. He is not electable.
Poll: NY voters prefer Hillary over Giuliani
Newsday.com/AP ^ | 2/15/07
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1785292/posts
Posted on 02/15/2007 6:29:17 AM PST by DBCJR
New York Democrats and Republicans have clear hometown favorites - Hillary Rodham Clinton and Rudolph Giuliani - for their parties' 2008 presidential nominations, a statewide poll reported yesterday.
But when it comes to a possible 2008 political subway series between the two, New Yorkers give the nod, 50 percent to 40 percent, to Democrat Clinton over the former New York City mayor, the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute survey reported.
Tot Rep Dem Ind
Clinton 43% 4% 80% 35%
Giuliani 48 88 14 55
SMONE ELSE(VOL) 1 1 - 2
WLDN'T VOTE(VOL) 2 2 1 3
DK/NA 5 5 4 6
Giuliani tops Clinton 55 - 38 percent in Red states, which voted Republican in the 2004 presidential election,
Rudy isn't splitting the base according to these numbers. And he won't. Pragmatic and realistic conservatives and Republicans know Rudy is so much better than Hillary. Sure the right wing nut fringe might stay home or vote otherwise but Rudy will capture 5 times as many independents and moderate Democrats than he will lose with the right fringe. No other Republican can do that.
"But if it's because you don't think Hunter is "electable", I'm not buying it."
Hunter can't even carry his home state :)