No room in the GOP for moderates like Rudy

There's no room at the inn.

Giuliani's stunning loss in Florida tonight, and his utter flaming out of the Republican nomination - he has a grand total of 1 delegate - shows the degree to which far-right Republicans have taken over the GOP and forced moderates and anyone else who doesn't breathe fire or speak in tongues out of the party (your faithful blogger, Markos, Arianna and so many more included).

Just as messed up, conservative Republicans may end up rallying around Romney, a man who once ran for the Senate claiming to be more pro-gay than Ted Kennedy. A guy who in the past two years has suddenly become a lifelong conservative, after 58 years of embracing gun control, abortion, and gays. This is the standard-bearer for conservative Republicans, a guy who on the litmus test "conservative" issues is - oh I'm sorry, was two years ago - a liberal Democrat. This is the standard bearer for evangelical jam-Christ-down-your-throat Christians, a Mormon.

And they wonder so many of us left.