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.
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.
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.