If Rudy gets the nod and wins, ALL CONSERVATIVES get marginalized as RUDY IS A LIBERAL!
And, for the record, check your post again. You said that he was acceptable to moderate Republicans. I contend he is "acceptable" only because those folks are too busy to look at his actual record and have no clue what he actually stands for, instead listening to fallacious talking points (and the liberals who would be perfectly happy with his autocratic form of governing and liberalism).
“You said that he was acceptable to moderate Republicans. “
He is acceptable to a lot of moderate Republicans, hence his leading in the polls. No one candidate is acceptable to all the memebers of any one group, but Rudy wouldn’t be the front runner without the support of a lot of moderate Republicans, and I suspect lots of conservative Democrats.