Unfortunately, that statement does bare truth at the moment. However, the fat lady is not yet singing.
Particularly since those you would prefer have NO following to speak of, are complete unknowns, nutcases or hated.
No following? You brought up FR polls earlier, so here's a taste of your own medicine:
Rudy vs Fred
Fred Thompson 65.9% 4,165
Rudy Giuliani 19.3% 1,219
Rudy vs Newt
Newt Gingrich 60.5% 3,478
Rudy Giuliani 24.3% 1,395
Rudy vs Duncan
Duncan Hunter 59.3% 3,058
Rudy Giuliani 28.6% 1,474
Bonus:
Rudy vs McCain
*Note: Rudy does better here, but it's still bad... 49.6% will NOT vote for Rudy!
Rudy Giuliani 47.0% 2,208
Write-in 19.7% 924
Third party 13.2% 618
Stay home 9.3% 435
John McCain 5.3% 248
Undecided 3.5% 163
Leave blank 2.1% 99
100.1% 4,695
Gee whiz, a FR poll as evidence Rudy can be beaten?
FGS, get real.
Those polls are as valid as DU polls and for the same reason- there will be tens of millions of voters who are NOT hard rightists or hard Leftists. We have no way of controlling for people who want to skew the results to hurt the GOP.
Why do people ignore the wisdom they happily apply to the Left's actions? It is UNIVERSALLY acknowledged here that allowing the DUmmies to choose the Party of Treason's candidate would mean CERTAIN defeat yet they are oblivious to the fact that allowing FReepers to choose the Republican would do just the same. This site is NOT representative.