We need a candidate who can WIN. A candidate who can win votes from people who aren't registered Republicans. I have no problem voting for the "lesser evil". It's a hell of a lot better than kissing my vote away. Hopefully in the future, I won't feel that way and can make an ideological stand with my vote but now isn't that time. looking at the field of potentials, my only hope is anyone but McCain.
A Democrat.
Rudy Giuliani is not that candidate. He will lose the pro-life vote. He will lose the pro-gun vote. He will lose the "Reagan Democrats" who vote Republican specifically because they don't stand for the things that Rudy Giuliani advocates. He will lose by a smaller margin in California and New York than other Republicans would, but he will lose Ohio, Pennsylvania, some otherwise "solid" Southern states, and maybe a few Western states that we've come to expect.
["We need a candidate... who can win votes from people who aren't registered Republicans."]
Sure. Maybe we should draft Hillary into the GOP. If enough Repubs vote for her, combined with the Dem vote, we're a shoe-in.
For me, though I think I'll keep holding out for someone who is not such a glaring RINO.
Winning is meaningless when you elect another liberal, no matter what party he belongs to.