I am for Hunter and Thompson - and Thompson has the best chance of anyone, IMO, including Rudy. Unlike Rudy, Thompson is center-right.
I like Thompson, and he's electable. I like Hunter, but he's not. He won't get more than small numbers in any poll. He's invisible. He's also got the pendulum working against him, after eight years of Bush, a loud evangelical hasn't got a prayer [heh].
But much of the anti-Rudy hatefest is unfair. I'm not signed on with him just yet and I've got some concerns myself... but I jump into these threads sometimes because I think the hate is just over the top. Frankly, if he can come out with a commitment that he'll not sign any gun control measures, he'd lock it up.
I think of all of them, Rudy gets the war on terrorists right. I think he'd prosecute the war agressively, and we need that.
But more than anything, we've got a very, very long time between now and the election. Much will happen between now and then. I hope that we can circle the wagons a little better, keep it more civil, and quit shooting our own.