Tony Blankley calls out those who would consider a third-party bid if Rudy is the nominee:

…Social conservatives received first-rate Supreme Court justices, a real effort at faith-based initiatives, constant rhetorical support for biblical values, and in fact have been denied nothing of consequence that brought them into politics. It would be an act of historic ingratitude to sabotage the GOP candidate at this point. It would also be a short path to undermining everything they have gained in national politics in the last quarter century. Every faction within the GOP coalition should immediately agree to make no further demands on their party. Just as the liberals did in 1991-92, the conservatives of 2007-08, should simply let their strongest candidate campaign in a way most likely to gain victory. Every conservative principle would thereby be safer than if heavy demands yield a Hillary presidency. Given the grotesque irresponsibility of the national Democrats, keeping them out of the White House should be the first calling of every patriotic conservative.

I wonder why those who are most in favor of this third party talk are so certain that the response from the rest of the GOP in 2010 and 2012 would be, “we’re sorry, we’ll never nominate a pro-choice nominee again.” I can’t help but suspect that a good chunk of Republicans will respond, “you [bad word] [very bad word] [extremely bad word] are the reason we have President Hillary.”

And while talk of Ten Commandments judge Roy Moore as this third-party nominee (with Alan Keyes the rumored backup) is being downplayed , I can’t help but suspect either of those guys would end up finishing closer to Ralph Nader’s numbers than Ross Perot’s 1992 numbers.