Rudy Making Plans For 2008 Race

Rudy Giuliani (R) "is taking several steps that could lay the groundwork for a presidential bid, strengthening alliances with Republicans nationwide and especially with conservative leaders of the party," the New York Times reports.Giuliani's advisers "say he will decide around the end of the year whether to seek the Republican nomination for president in 2008... but they say he could enter the race at the start of 2007, or even later, and still assemble a team and raise tens of millions of dollars in a relatively short time."