A vote for Rudy is a vote for liberals.
A vote against him is a vote for Clinton, or worse Obama. Your logic is backwords, you are an appeaser of the Democrats, if you choose to sit out the election if Rudy wins our nomination fair and square you are setting back conservatism more than any politican ever could. Giving the Democrats all 3 branches DURING A WAR somehow is true conservative thing to do.
Rudy could win.
Do you prefer Rudy in the White House, or Hillary because you put another candidate in the primary ???
"A vote for Rudy is a vote for liberals."
Let's say Rudy is like having the flu and Hillary is like having cancer.
Which would you pick?
Hmmm. Last time I checked a guy with "impeccable" conservative credentials on the "litmus" test issues (gun control, gay marriage, abortion) voted with Senate Democrats on a timetable for surrender in the war on terror.
I'd rather win the war on terror with a short Italian catholic guy who has sinned than watch Hillary, Obama, or Edwards fritter it away. Those are the choices, sorry.
Fred Thompson is surely a wonderful man. He's also an older, hefty, waspy guy from Tennessee who effuses good old boy. Now, I don't have any issues with any of those things. But the American electorate in 2008 simply won't buy it. (Being conservative with less baggage don't make someone electible. If they did, my grandma would win.)