Rudy was too scared to face Hillary in the last election. How will he stand up to Putin?
Why would Rudy run for the Senate last year just to turn around and run for President starting this year? That doesn't make much sense which is why he didn't run. I could have saw his campaign slogan now, "New Yorkers vote for me for the Senate, I pledge to only serve two years of the six year term and during those two years instead of working for you in the Senate I will be busy running for President". Nope, it makes much more sense to be doing this way. Besides, maybe he doesn't want to be a Senator anyways. Now as far as Putin goes, he leaves office in May 2008. He won't be President of Russia when the next President enters office.