AC- Great post, it did nothing but reinforce my opposition to Rudy for President. I am interested in which candidate, announced or not, you are supporting for the Republican nomination in '08. I currently am leaning toward Hunter; he seems to be the most conservative candidate out there, pending a decision from Newt. I would like to see a similar type post naming your 'best' candidate, as well as a list of the positive and negative baggage that candidate would bring to the primaries.
I'm not supporting any particular candidate right now, but most of the GOP field would be somewhat acceptable to varying degrees.
The one candidate other than Giuliani who I would dismiss out of hand is McCain -- not because of disagreements I have with him on specific issues (though there are some of those!), but because he simply doesn't strike me as a serious candidate at all.
I felt a need to start a thread like this because of the blatantly misleading nonsense I've been seeing in the media -- from both mainstream media as well as "conservative" pundits -- about Mr. Giuliani in recent weeks. I got the sense that I was being conned, and I simply wanted no part of it.