Does Rudy Really Want it?
Not only is it starting to look a lot like Chtistmas, it's starting to look a lot like 2000--at least for Rudy Giuliani. In this New York Times piece from November by Adam Nagourney, aids close to the former New York City mayor speculated that there was more to Rudy's decision to withdraw his bid for Patrick Moynihan's seat in the U.S. Senate than his cancer diagnosis:
. . .some of his aides and senior Washington Republicans say today they had concluded weeks before that he had lost interest...
