Well, this is pretty much what I’ve been saying all along.
If Rudy wins the primary, then you can say goodbye to the Republican Party. Because he will kill it.
I’m not going to vote for hillary. My conscience forbids it. But I’m also not going to vote for Rudy, because my conscience forbids that. And tens of millions of Christian conservatives and pro-lifers will feel the same way. Count on it.
The obvious solution to this dilemma is not to nominate Rudy. Because if he is nominated, the party will not survive, and the conservative coalition will have to start all over again from scratch.
There's only one way: absolute crushing defeat that tells the Party leaders that the way to beat Hillary is not to be Hillary-lite. Upon Giuliani's nomination, my strategy shifts to "since she's gonna be elected, let's keep her in check." I will remind liberal-leaning people around me that the best years of the previous Clinton administration were not 93 and 94 (when Hillary tried to take over health care singlehandedly) but from 1995-2000, when the Republicans had completely taken over Congress.
The libs will freak out that she doesn't withdraw from Iraq in her first hundred days, and then she will have lost them, too. I'd rather have a defanged Hillary than to see the spectacle of Rudy begging Republicans to vote for stuff that he's already got the Rats on board with. You think we had it bad while GWB was trying to shove shamnesty down our throats? Four long years of a Rudy presidency would be like that on a daily basis. The Republican Party would rip itself to shreds.
The republican elites are going to pull a bait and switch - Rudy will disappear and Mitt will be the nominee. Conservatives, once more, will be suckered.
Mitt is a Rudy - internally.
(...gay couples raising kids. That’s the American way... -Mitt Romney)