You're certainly entitled to your opinion on that, but Rudy's got my trust. He has it because he earned it years ago.
Well, if we accept a social liberal as a Presidential Candidate, we learned nothing from this 2006 election debacle. The Religious Right will never accept Rudy Giuliani, no matter how good a mayor of New York City me may have been. The character flaws and liberal beliefs don't match up at all.
Hey, I like Rudy too, but without the Conservative Christian vote (of which I am), ANY candidate is toast. Believe me, I would vote for Rudy over Hillary any day, but a lot of Christians just don't understand politics and that you MUST stop the Dims no matter how much don't like your choice on the right. They don't REALLY understand how dangerous the progressives are. All that to say, Rudy could not pull it off. Same reason Mitt will never win. Evangelicals, in mass, will never vote for a Mormon.
Not to mention, we are about to hand the Left the Hispanic vote. Without the far right any '08 Repub is a goner.