All of that has been asked & answered on the bugzapper thread. Freepers lost their posting privileges for supporting this scumbag socialist using the same techniques of untenable argumentation.
Any republican who supports such a divisive candidate is, as you call it, dumb.
The main reason why people continue to support tootyfruityrudy is that they agree with him. They do not support the founding principles of this social conservative forum, which is NOT a GOP website. Basically, anyone defending tootyfruityrudy on this website after they’ve been notified of the bugzapper thread is a troll.
First off, I'm not defending or supporting Rudy Giuliani. I am, rather, taking a look at a particular scenario, and assessing the statements of those who are looking at the same scenario.
You'll surely concede that the scenario in question here is based on the preconditions that the primaries are over, the Conventions have been held, and the D and R candidates have been selected.
Put another way, that scenario is no longer a question of who to support in the primaries -- and thus it's not covered by the "bug-zapper" clause.
IF it comes down to Rudy vs. Hillary in the General Election, then people will have to deal with the reality that one or the other of them WILL become president.
Giuliani would not be my first choice as a candidate. He wouldn't be my second or third, either. But if he is the candidate who ends up running against Hillary Clinton, then we have to ask "which is the least worst choice?"
I am not foolish enough to believe that "four years of Hillary" is all we'll get. Best case, maybe, but Clintons seem to have a way of getting around our rosy assumptions. And for all Giuliani's faults (of which there are many), Hillary Clinton has the same ones and more, only hers are bigger and more poisonous.