[George W. Bush]

Then the GOP would be even more attractive to moderates, independents, and Reagan Democrats! We would gain 5 times as many of these voters than we would lose.

I hate to interrupt your swooning over the manliness of your hero but it's just a bizarre fantasy.

The basic electoral map for '08 is the same as it has been since the early Nineties. Republicans must win their entire block of states or they lose the White House. New York and California are unwinnable for us. A ticket headed by Rudy would probably lose Texas or Ohio and would almost certainly lose a handful of smaller southern and western states where pro-family and pro-gun voters are strongest.

We have to hold our current states. I don't think Rudy can possibly do it.

[My GOP]

I'm sorry but Texas isn't going to vote for Hillary Clinton! Neither is any southern state. Rudy would pick up NH, probably NJ(latest poll shows he's leading Hillary there 51%-41%), maybe Penn, Wisconsin, Minnesota. Rudy would win safely in the EC.