[Agrarian]

"He kept faith with every piece of the center-right coalition - taxpayers, property owners, investors, businessmen, home-schoolers, gun owners and all communities of faith," said Grover Norquist, a leading conservative and the president of Americans for Tax Reform.

And that sums up why W won. Republicans thinking of nominating someone who can't mobilize and fire up ALL of those groups are suicidal. In other words, let's please make Guiliani and his ilk "distinguished Senators" from New York, CA, MA, etc... -- but not try to run them for president.

[WOSG]

Well said - we need the whole coalition to make it all work ... but it is a tough recipe to get that magic candidate who can be all things to 58 million people.

[neverdem]

In other words, let's please make Guiliani and his ilk "distinguished Senators" from New York, CA, MA, etc... -- but not try to run them for president.

Giuliani doesn't want to be Senator, IMHO. His utility is limited to knocking off some other liberal statist like Hillary, Schumer or Spitzer, the NY Attorney General, who wants to be go for a statewide office. If Giuliani returns to elective office, he'll disappoint both conservatives and small 'l' libertarians. He would be worse than Arlen Specter. At least Arlen gets an A from the NRA.