Some interesting takes on this blog I saw

[Hawaii Hiker]

http://tabacco.blog-city.com/can_democrats_win_in_2008_if_republicans_steal_ohio_and_flor.htm

Some of his takes:

"Any idiot can win on the Republican ticket in the south - even McCain or Giuliani. Giuliani is not an idiot. He’s a lot of bad things, but idiot is not one of them. Giuliani is a racist and a bigot. He would carry every southern state in spite of being for same-sex marriage and abortion rights. Republicans are fools if they don’t nominate Giuliani. He might actually win some Democratic stronghold states too like New Jersey. The reason they won’t nominate him is because he is a sonofabitch and uncontrollable. He’s more like Nixon than Reagan. Republicans nominate mediocre candidates with average intelligence, who can be controlled. Giuliani is out".

"Dan Quayle would have won every southern state and probably become president but for that “potatoe”. He certainly could have garnered the Republican nomination. But he made such a joke of himself that he blew the nomination. He was just as dumb before he misspelled “potato”, but now everybody knew it. Most Americans didn’t know George W. Bush was just as dumb. So he, not Quayle, got the 2000 nomination"...

"The south used to be solidly Democratic when abortion was not an issue and no acknowledged homosexual could get elected dogcatcher. They voted solidly Democratic because Abe Lincoln was a Republican. Kennedy - Johnson turned that around 180º. When Strom Thurmond and Jesse Helms switched from Democrat to Republican, they announced to all Dixiecrats that it was O.K. to vote for the party of Lincoln. To this day most southern states have a plurality of registered Democratic voters, many of whom now vote Republican all the time. They don’t change their registration because “granddaddy would roll over in his grave if they switched their party affiliation to the party of Lincoln.”