Those Politico folks are doing some good work.  As Roger Simon notes, the Old Man may have a real problem because he is so very…old.  Meanwhile, the Drag Queen has bigger problems than his occasional enjoyment of putting on wigs and dresses.  (Did I mention that I’m not a fan?)  Simon writes:

And get this: A USA Today poll released Wednesday shows that 24 percent of Americans would not vote for a Mormon (Romney), 30 percent would not vote for someone who has been married three times (Giuliani) and more than 40 percent would not vote for a “generally well-qualified person” for president who was 72 years old (McCain’s age by Election Day 2008).
 

Simon also rehearses all the reasons why the top three on the other are also very vulnerable and weak, and he’s right.  This tends to strengthen my insanely overconfident prediction that none of the six leading candidates will be nominated.  I have been arguing that Romney is unelectable for a while, but this new information reminds us of just how poor the chances of the other two candidates really are.  There is nothing that McCain can do to ward off people’s doubts about an old President if so many are simply set against anyone 72 years old, and there is not really anything Giuliani can do to make people accept a thrice-married candidate.  He could try to explain that he had his second marriage annulled, so, technically, it doesn’t count as being married three times, but then that might require him to rehash the whole ugly, sordid business. 

I guess this helps answer the question of whether Giuliani’s, um, “colourful” personal life will make a difference in the election.  Yes, it will, and it will be a huge difference.  That 30% probably comes overwhelmingly from one side of the spectrum.  Social conservatives in the primaries will listen to Rudy, clap politely when he says rah-rah things about fighting terrorism or whatever it is he’s supposedly qualified to do and then vote en masse against him and the decadent Yankee order he represents.  And by decadent Yankee order, I mean, of course, the order of things in which the Yankees have the biggest budget, most obnoxious fans and consistently most underperforming team in baseball.  Well, there’s that, and then there’s the rampant immorality.