It’s a simple formula. Take all the non-Rudy voters and total them up against the pro-Rudy voters. Rudy cannot top the 25% mark. If a couple of GOP candidates drop out, and they will, Rudy cannot win a majority of GOP voters. Even if, under some odd circumstances, he should gain the nomination with a mere plurality of GOP voters, he cannot count on them to vote for him in November 2008. The conservative wing will not vote for anyone who is a pro-abortion, gun-grabbing, pro illegal immigrant amnesty candidate. Period. Given a choice between only Rudy and Hillary, they will sit home and watch Hillary take the White House. The sooner the GOP realizes this, the sooner they can organize an effective candidate that will unite the party, not divide it as Giuliani would.
I hope you are right. I can see compromising to get behind Fred, Duncan or Mitt. Yet all three together will split the ticket.
I can not see ever compromising to get behind:
A: Rudy Giuliani
B: John McCain
I don’t understand your logic. If the conservatives are so upset why is he leading in the polls of conservatives. I’m for Fred but I can’t ignore any candidate who attracts the attention that Rudy has. If you can’t support Rudy that’s fine, but I’m not going to turn my back on the rest of our party by sitting at home and giving it to the Democrats. I’m pretty sick of this true conservative BS. Rudy sure as hell won’t be the first Republican president that is not as conservative as I would prefer, Nixon,Ford,Bush 1,Bush 2. but he sure the hell beats any Democrat I can think of.
So with all that analysis in post 13, how many electoral votes does all that turn into?
Shame on all of you. And that ends this.