The United States isn't California.
If Hillary is elected, we’ll pick up a lot of seats in the House & Senate
No we won't. First termers always have coattails, we will have a Democrat Washington from the Hill to the White House.
have a strong candidate in 2012.
And we thought we'd win in '96 against the corrupt record of Bill Clinton, didn't happen. We won't have a strong candidate in '12 because no one worth a damn will want to lose against Hillary.
If Rudy is elected, the GOP will continue drifting - while Rudy pulls us as far left as he dares.
Rudy already is having to pull right, and he will have to continue after the election to keep the support of the base and prevent a third party candidate.
A solid conservative candidate will pull left, to broaden his base, while a centrist candidate like Giuliani will have to pander to the right.
Every candidate needs a broad base to get elected and stay there. Rudy will be forced to pull right, because he'll never get the support of the hard left, the center will be his for the taking, and the right is all that remains to be won.
I think Rudy will assume his WOT stance (+ the anti-Hillary vote) will keep the right in line (after all, he’ll have won the primaries, right?)
He’ll reach left to take as much of the ‘center’ as he can from Hillary, and trust the right has no where else to go.