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So far, not one of the Republican presidential candidates who have confirmed their campaign seems to actually be someone anyone would want running this country.

Which might be good news for Rudy Giuliani, who choked in 08 and is reportedly considering running again in 2012.

“He’s seriously considering it,” said a Republican source close to Giuliani, who placed fourth in New Hampshire in 2008. Two other former aides who have stayed in touch with the mayor but do not have permission to speak on the record about his thinking said they agreed. And in an interview with The Daily Beast, Giuliani was coy but did not rule it out, saying, “I would say I have not closed the door on doing it.”

The former and perhaps future candidate stressed this trip to the Granite State is not “a presidential consideration fact-finding mission.” Instead, he said, he is “using this trip to pay back some debts that I owe to the people that helped me. Having said that, I may do that later in the year.”

But does he have a chance? The opinions of Republican leaders and political experts in New Hampshire vary widely about a potential Giuliani candidacy, but all agree that he should have spent more time there in 2008. Even Giuliani agrees.

“I would say lessons learned from last time, and I’ve given this advice to some of the potential candidates. You have to think of it as a very major primary,” he said, referring to New Hampshire. “Think of it as a major commitment of time and effort and focus more on that and less on national campaigning.”

Giuliani declined to say which potential 2012 candidates he had advised, though did say he has “met with Mitt a couple of times.”

That New Hampshire is a “very major primary” is clear to political experts, who said Giuliani suffered the consequences of ignoring it in 2008.

“The national recognition that came with his name was the best part of his candidacy—in the end, really the only part of his candidacy,” said Dante Scala, a professor of politics at the University of New Hampshire. “He thought he was unique, that he could defy the laws of gravity when it came to presidential nominating campaigns, and his campaign wound up being one more lesson that even someone with that kind of name-recognition cannot ignore the laws of presidential nominating campaigns.”

After ten years out of office and four years mostly out of the political limelight, do you think Rudy Giuliani could win the Republican nomination?

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