I think it more likely that it will be a Clinton-Richardson ticket.
I also think looking at the GOP field Giuliani is placed nicely in the middle.
On Meet the Press, someone said they thought that South Carolina will loom large, and it may well be between Giuliani and Romney, and that hence the evangelicals would now be forced to choose between abortion and Mormonism.
It points out that the evangelical terrains are changing, and that many of them are now a herd without a herder.
One big tangential benefit--now we all get to see them realize that the world is indeed complex, and that now we get a chance to see them think, instead of parrott.
Many evangelicals will choose Mormonism over Death.
Perhaps.
But by far the most salient happenstance to have been created is that the evangelicals no longer have a cerebral slam dunk like they have had in the past.
Now, they are forced to think things through, rather than having the unreal and idyllic all right, all wrong, all one way of thinking, which has, let us face it, created a rigidity than has only served to create division and darken both America's religious and political skies.
Can you not see that now, they would thinking believers rather than thoroughly indoctrinated clones?
Can you not see that this pairing of Mitt against Rudy would serve to throw open the curtains, and permits choice; that this opens their minds, and serves to deflect the always present threat of the absolutism of cultish subscription?
I myself can see the opportunity to mend religious fences in America; religions would now be presented with options and could make decisions, which would create an atmosphere of mutual cooperation for all churches in America, instead of them being locked into an eternal disagreement wherein no leeway makes certain no resolution.
This means that religions would exist in the vibrant and clean air of checks and balances.
I would suggest that, in a Democracy, this is ideal.