then who does he expect to help him in the general election? The conservative base, as loony as it is, does work it's ass off to help elect those that support their views. It seems to me that a sizable chunk of conservatives will not do the phone banking, door knocking, and other essential activites that Guiliani will need to get elected. The "moderates" that he is cultivating to shoehorn his way into the nomination are notoriously ambivalent about politics and won't put in the volunteer time that Guiliani will need. Maybe I'm overly simplistic about this but this looks like a fool's errand by Guiliani. and for me, I could care less who the GOP nominee is, if Guiliani thinks he can beat us by peeling off alot of Democrats, I think he's nuts.
I agree with this completely. And it's not just choice ... it's also guns. What would the NRA do?
Even beyond volunteers, the communications channels of the GOP anti-choice and gun organizations are huge. If you've never known a plugged-in social conservative, you have no idea how much information they get through that channel (email, church bulletins, conversations at church, sermons); I'd say it's their primary news source by far. And if they aren't working for the GOP nominee, I don't see how he stands a chance. Same thing with the NRA communications channels.
Basically, if the nominee is anyone other than Hillary, Giuliani gets crushed in an historic manner. Richardson may not be my first choice, but if by some strange twist of fate it's Giuliani-Richardson, the GOP would be in enormous trouble.
