Ras Poll: Giuliani leads for '08 among GOP, then Rice and McCain

In a poll of 1050 GOP and 203 unaffiliated voters here are the results:
Giuliani: 24%
Rice 18%
McCain 17%
Romney 9%

I don't know why they keep including Rice since she says she isn't running.

www.rasmussenreports.com

The Corporate/GOP Media could spin her into something electable if they really put their minds to it.

This election proved we have the power to fight them. They tried desperately to spin things for BushCo. and they still lost big.

Especially Maryland, where Michael Steele surprisingly underperformed in the "white Republican" catagory...

The Republican "base" isn't going to elect someone who is "colored". Sad but true.

on social issues the republican Conservatives will drop him like a hot potato. he's got more problems and bagage than Hillary.

The Republican nominee is never a surprise. We knew Bush would be their nominee six years in advance. We knew Dole would get it in 1996 two years before that election. Poppy was a shoe-in for 1988's nomination as of the 1980 convention.

Whatever problems the hard right leaders have with McCain (and it's mostly the religious Right at that) are already getting hammered down. Frist is a longshot, Jeb will sit this election out, and Rice is an unmarried woman--an automatic disqualifier. Romney will drop out quicker than you can say "Massachusetts." Well, actually, just as long as it takes for one of his opponents to say it. Like Pataki, he's a northeast moderate who got reelected and is now buying his own hype.

As for Giuliani... he'll be their Howard Dean (sorry Deaniacs). Peaking too soon, popular in the northeast, and then a fast fade out once the hit squads start hitting. The two things you can always count on from our Republican compatriots is (1) their love of a dirty fight and (2) their establishment types always settle on who their nominee will be years in advance. After 8 years of Bush they'll be even more risk-averse than ever. They'll go with a known quantity with a proven vote gathering track record. That's McCain and it's practically nobody else.