At NRO Mark Steyn is saying that Giuliani refrained from doing the hard campaigning needed to win (and notice Steyn’s reference to the fact that half of National Review’s editorial staff were advising Guiliani):

Honestly, Rich, you know better than that. Huck didn’t win Iowa by buying airtime and McCain didn’t win NH by buying airtime. They won it by doing more diners and town meetings than anybody else. And I know a ton of folks hate that I-won’t-vote-for-any-candidate-I-haven’t-danced-with stuff, but you ignore it at your peril.

Rudy had the money and the smartest advisers (including half my NR colleagues), but he gave the impression that he recoils from retail politics. His driver up here is married to the sister-in-law of the guy I got my Thanksgiving turkey from, so I speak as someone plugged in to the inner sanctum of the campaign. We were always hearing that any day now he’d be making “swings through the North Country”. But he never did, except in the most perfunctory sense. Compared to Buchanan ‘96 or McCain 2000, it was not the schedule of a man who wanted to win New Hampshire.

Whatever one feels about Ron Paul, he didn’t sit it out. Rudy’s campaign makes no sense, except, presumably, to his therapist. A “frontrunner” who writes off IA, NH, MI, NV, SC, but he’s the only guy who can beat Hillary? Where? In Guam?