The paucity of alternatives is the unspoken elephant in the middle of these Rudy threads. Hunter is a dead letter--28 years in the House and no one has ever heard of him. Some leader. Romney had to bus in quantities of shills to (barely) win a straw vote. Big deal. McCain has the old bulls behind him but they don't get the distrust engendered by McCain-Feingold and McCain-Kennedy, to name only two reasons--incredibly out of touch as they are.
Anti-Rudy flunkies can attack his personal life, and his wife and kid, but have nothing to offer in Rudy's place--nada, nichts, zilch, zip. Just losers.
All great points!