I've been saying that all along. Why swat this fly? If he's just a 1%er and will always be a 1%er, they have no reason to waste their time. But their actions speak louder than their words, and they know as well as we do that FR represents the socon base, which is a good indicator of how millions of votes will turn. I've even had one rudy supporter say that we should vote straight republican and leave the top spot blank. That's some candidate they got there for the republican party.
The problem with the GOP now is that the high ranking officials who could be candidates have been given blank checks by the voters of those states to do whatever they want instead of doing what the voters want.
That current lack of GOP support is why Bush has been having such a bad time in the opinion polls when most everything has been going well.
We have to elect people who can and will do the job, rather than someone who says they would like to do the job.
Promise the sky, deliver some fog. We have plenty of time to sort out who is actually prepared to do the job rather than who the media picks as the most popular liar.