Why do you say that Rudy wouldn't sell in the South? I'm a Texan, and I'd sure get behind the man.
Rudy is a baby killer and a gun grabber. He'd split the Republican ticket badly.
Similar problem when Cuomo looked into running in 1992 and a southern guy said, "We don't have too many 'Marios' down here..."
Rudy too socially liberal for the South