Rudy's Plans
Ben Smith of the New York Daily News gets his hands on the goods:
It's clearly laid out in 140 pages of printed text, handwriting and spreadsheets: The top-secret plan for Rudy Giuliani's bid for the White House.The remarkably detailed dossier sets out the budgets, schedules and fund-raising plans that will underpin the former New York mayor's presidential campaign - as well as his aides' worries that personal and political baggage could scuttle his run. [snip]
The loss of the battle plan is a remarkable breach in the high-stakes game of presidential politics and a potentially disastrous blunder for Giuliani in the early stages of his campaign.
The document was obtained by the Daily News from a source sympathetic to one of Giuliani's rivals for the White House. The source said it was left behind in one of the cities Giuliani visited as he campaigned for dozens of Republican candidates in the weeks leading up to the November 2006 elections.
The document is a bit of an embarrassment for Giuliani, but Smith overhypes it by characterizing it as a "potentially disastrous blunder." After all, the four issues cited in the memo as potential problem points for Rudy's candidacy (his private business, his relationship with Bernie Kerik, his third-wife, and his liberal positions on "social issues") are hardly surprising. Whether those issues end up scuttling his bid is anyone's guess, but it's not like the document revealed some crippling secret.

