Did anyone ever really take Guilliani seriously? Him climbing on rubble at 911 was as much a theatrical spectical as when Bush copied him climbing on the rubble saying he was taking charge of the country....and then declared the war over on the aircraft carrier.
What did Rudy really do for NYC....that makes people think Rudy can handle the white house....well maybe I can compliment Rudy by saying that Rudy wouldnt be worse than Bush...Rudy for President would certainly give the country years of social fodder that his incompetent family life...in no time at all people will be looking at Rudy and saying that they cant believe they impeached clinton for a little diddle with a cigar.
Rudy could never carry the republican party but lets be honest...there really is no such thing as a republican or conservative in NYS...the patronage, the NYS senate, the NYS assembly and the unions would never allow it. What we really have in NYS is centrist democrats labeling themselves as republicans and then extreme leftist socialist/communists liberals calling themselves democrats.
Furthermore even those names are perfunctory because the patronage machine and the unions pretty much dictate the majority of the budget making the governors responsibilities pretty much that of a figure head. Central American Puppet Dictators and Banana Republics are more democratic than NYS.