FYI! Very well written and what I am seeing here in the area I live in very Red State America.
Sorry but your man Rudy is notihng more than an anti-life Socialist.
The question here is what are those who are opposed to Rudy going to do when he gets the nomination and when he becomes the President?
I can tell you Nevada would probably side with Rudy over Hilly or Obama. Same with McCain. But the GOP can certainly lose here, too - if Dubya were running today he would get his rear end tanned by the average voter.
Rudy led through the recovery and now is saying "we need to be looking at Iran. We need to be looking at Syria."
The big picture is the survival of America under the combined attack of Islamoterrorists, the fifth-column media, and the peace Democrats. Rudy is the leader for that fight.
That he will nominate judges of the philosophy of Roberts, Alito and Scalia is the most important philosophical litmus test.
His record in New York is driving those on welfare into work, cutting taxes and reversing the fiscal catastrophe in the greatest demonstration of municipal conservative budgetary policy in history.
He slashed the killing and drained the swamp of porn, prostitution and other street crime.
His action vis-a-vis the museum as representing the culture war against faith is a signal indicator of his preeminent leadership on this vital issue.
And Rudy is very likable, too.
Doesn't have the siliconized synthetic lubrication of some of the choreographed animatronic candidates, but then, that's because he's a mensch.