Yes, I agree with you, and I don’t trust her because she contradicted herself by saying in one breathe that Bush turned his back on conservatives, while in the other breath telling people to vote for a pro-abortion RINO.
Your choices are voting for a Republican who will lie to you and then pull a Bush when he doesn’t need you anymore, or to stay home and hand the election to Hillary. This is a third alternative - yes, a think outside the box thing. It doesn’t have to be Rudy - though anyone who thinks it should be is entitled to his or her opinion - and it is quite possible that it will take a RINO to get the ball rolling. As the new bipartisan conservative coaltion gels, the candidates will get progressively more conservative. Don’t think of the 2008 election as a one-shot. Think longer term. And IMHO, Peggy Noonan is thinking small when she says we have to take back the Republican party. No, we have to take back our Country! It will be a long, protracted war. Think Sun Tzu.