Which candidate is best for the republican party, Side A or Side B?
Do I look like an idiot to you? LOL!
You create a false choice in your hypothetical and expect me to pick one?
Let me just address this, which pretty much covers everything:
My contention: If rudy gets the nomination, he loses the base and the election.
No, he doesn't. He has 84% of conservative support. In other words, the GOP base is giving him 84% of support - that makes you and your buddies in the 16% minority. That isn't splitting the base by any means. There are polls after polls indicating this. All those polls (and there are many) can't be wrong, and they all indicate strong support for Rudy by the conservative base, even in the South where his naysayers have predicted doom and gloom for a long time.
So no, if Rudy gets the nomination, he doesn't lose the base, and he is a favorite to win the election.
The 2 polls on Free Republic put forth an obvious SOCON (only Hunter fits that description given) versus a SOLIB (it certainly fits rudy).
http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/poll?poll=171
http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/poll?poll=172
Rudy splits the base.
And yes, I expect rudy supporters to answer the false dilemma because there have certainly been enough of them asking the false dilemma of "who would you vote for, Hildebeast or Rudy". So if you don't like them, don't ask them, and get yer buddies to stop asking them. In particular, since this is a socon forum (not even a GOP forum), it is very impolite to ask double-bind questions, expecially this early in the race.