[Spiff]

((((STOP RUDY PING))))

[Clara Lou]

Fred Thompson needs to run. That (among other things) will stop Rudy.

[Delphinium]

They know its fragile thats why they resort to phony polls and lies, trying to make us think he is the "only"one to save America.

[Question Liberal Authority]

"Is this what you expected, McCain?"

"No. This is just the beginning."

[AZRepublican]

I wish I had the confidence Hunter could win FL, OH and PA.

[flashbunny]

"Despite former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani's lead in the polls, Republican insiders say the GOP base is so divided and Giuliani's ascension is so fragile that the party's presidential nomination for 2008 is totally up for grabs"

[Jhensy]

Wow, that was hard-hitting, Spiff. Mort Zuckerman's U.S. News & World Report quoting a single unnamed evangelical source! OOOOOHHHH....

Lame. Try again.

[WalterSkinner]

"I've never seen the party so split," says a GOP strategist with close ties to evangelical Christians

..somebody has been visiting FR...

[kinoxi]

I think the hardcore dem base (coerced union members,welfare recipients, dead people, vacant lots, etc.) will vote no matter who the nominee is. I think if Rudy is the nominee many R's will stay home on principle thus handing the White House to the dems. I won't 'sit it out' personally if Rudy wins the nomination but I can't argue with those that do. He might as well be a dem when you look at many policy issues.

[pissant]

From fragile to collapsed by end of summer.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Prediction: None of the "RINO THREE" will be the nominee come November 2008.

[massadvj]

More LSM jabbering, trying to muster up anti-Rudy sentiment on the right. Once McCain is out, virtually all of those votes go to Giuliani. After 2006, the GOP is not going to put out a nominee who cannot capture the imaginations of swing voters. So unless Thompson or someone else can demonstrate a capability to beat the likely Dim nominees in PA, VA, MO, etc. Then Rudy will be the choice.

We are seeing more and more stories like this from LSM outlets of late. Giuliani seems to be the candidate they fear most, and for good reason.

[Liz]

It's time to acknowledge that Julie-Annie is a very dangerous man.

Rudy's intrusion into the Republican party is a prelude to the decline of the American republic, the two-party system, and the systems of checks and balances the founders built into our system of government.

The Rudyoids stalk conservatives, demean them at every turn, and sneer at the issues conservatives hold dear, even threatening conservatives' free speech. This is only the prelude to the larger plan----to throw social conservatives off the Repub lifeboat, to trash the Constitution, so that liberals control all facets of government.

That's decidedly not what the Founders intended.

Rudy and his liberal control-freaks are a distinct threat to the two-party system, and to the system of checks and balances the founders built into our system of government.

Giuliani's intrusion into Repub politics is the initial step in the decline of the American republic as we know it.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Not only has Rudy been historically wrong on RKBA issues, he is too damned arrogant to admit it.
I won't even begin to play the "maybe" game, nominate Rudy and watch me go fishing. It is too late to make an honest Republican out of him.

[Reagan Man]

Its good to see not everyone is following the pro-Rudy buildup being propagated by the MSM.

[yldstrk]

It's fragile alright.

[wagglebee]

"For very good reasons, the base will say 'no thanks' to Rudy," says the strategist. "Eventually there will be a reckoning."

Good, maybe the bigwigs at the RNC can convince Rooty Julieannie to drop out now.

[upsdriver]

"Giuliani, despite his strong image from 9/11, consistently falls well short of a majority"

Just as many of us have been saying all along!

[Halgr]

I'll vote for Duncan or Fred.....I WILL NOT VOTE FOR RUDY...I'll leave the ballot blank or write in Duncan or Fred........

Period