I wouldn't doubt that Rudy's personal life is like Pandora's box. I just hope that by the winter of '08, GOPers are as well informed about Rudy's public and private indiscretions as you are.
Fortunately, sitting here in December of 2004 with a month to go before Bush's inauguration, we are a long way from Iowa and New Hampshire and public opinion polls does not a President make.
After 2004--and the trauma of 2000--I don't even want to think about another presidential election. But for those who want the office, they're already getting geared up. This will be an open seat, as it were, for the highest office in the land, and there will be a any number of people who want it--and many who will fall by the wayside.
We've got about three years of speculation, and one year of campaigning.