You think people are being hard on Rudy here, you should have heard some of the things people here were saying about Bush during the 2000 primaries.
Actually, in reading this thread, I get the notion that Rudy will be much tougher to defeat than the Duncan Hunter partisans think.
Why?
Because he's a tough guy, and one of the big perceived problems with Bush has been an insufficient toughness level.
Is Duncan Hunter as tough? Can he stand up to the bad guys? Frankly, I don't think there's anyone else in the Presidential candidate field with Rudy's degree of toughness.
In these tough times, a tough guy could go the distance.
And probably should.
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