[stockstrader]

The GOP can not afford to nominate a candidate who can not beat Hillary....

No question about it--and the best way to elect Hillary is to SPLIT the Party WIDE OPEN, and DEMORALIZE the base. No one does that better than Rudy. NO ONE.

Ref. the WOT....It's outrageous to think that Rudy is the only (or even the best) Republican to aggressively fight the WOT (Paul doesn't even count).

Exactly what would Rudy do different in the WOT than President Bush (or any other Republican)?

Push more gun control?

Sue gun manufacturers?

Expand sanctuary cities?

Encourage illegal immigration by telling illegals that they are not really illegal?

Encourage even more illegal immigration by publicly affirming continued citizenship for kids of illegals?

Allow gays to openly serve in the military?

Continue to publicly tell muslims and the world that Islam is a ‘great religion’ (like he did in the CNN debate)?

Make solid appointments to important positions like his recommendation to President Bush of Bernie Kerik to head Homeland Security?

Put emergency command centers in the most likely targets (like he did in NY)?

It's absolutely outrageous to think that we need a LIBERAL like Rudy to aggressively and successfully fight the WOT.

[merry10]

what conservative CAN unite the party. Seems like they are all doing a good job of dividing it.

[srmorton]

I agree with you, yet splitting the party is what some of you are willing to do! I will vote for the Republican nominee. Period. Any of the Pubbies are 1000X better than Hillary or any other Democrat. If conservatives want to save our country, they must be willing to do the same. I would think that the damage done by conservatives sitting out an election would have been made profoundly obvious in 2006. It’s only the fortitude of GWB, who is so often criticized on this forum, and the brilliance of General Petraus that Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi were prevented from accomplishing their goal of a US defeat in Iraq.