A P.S. on Rudy in S.C. ...

I didn't make it over to the Charleston event at night (though I tore up the South Carolina highways trying). But here are some accounts from people who did:

Bruce Smith from the AP. He quotes Rudy, asked whether a mayor of New York can win in the South: "Since there were certain groups in New York who thought I was the most conservative mayor in the history of New York, I wish they would come down here now and go around saying that."

This piece, from the Greenville News, has a good account of a private meeting Rudy held in the morning with state GOP movers and shakers. They seem to have received him well.

It's also worth noting that Barry Wynn, the former chairman of the South Carolina Republican Party and the finance chair of President Bush's re-election campaign -- who's sounded very favorable on Rudy in the press -- now is committed to Rudy outright, should he run.