Posted yesterday at The American Spectator's blog:

[Ken] Mehlman has not publicly stated where he intends to hang his hat, but talk along K Street and elsewhere is that he is going to help former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani decide whether a presidential run is a good idea.

And from the October 25 New York Daily News:

Rudy Giuliani has hired a new fund-raiser who used to work for top presidential adviser Karl Rove -- the latest sign the former mayor may be eying the White House.

Margaret Hoover, 28, made $10,000 last month as the new deputy finance director for Solutions America, Giuliani's federal political action committee, records show.

Hoover's resume includes working on intergovernmental affairs for Rove ... and working for Bush's 2004 campaign operation.

Hoover, the great-granddaughter of former President Herbert Hoover, will report directly to Anne Dickinson, Giuliani's top fund-raiser and another veteran of Bush's 2004 campaign....

If you read this blog regularly, you know I worry about Giuliani more than about any other GOP candidate for '08 -- if he makes a pre-campaign promise to the religious right that he'll pick a far-right running mate and far-right judges (likely) and if he survives the primaries (quite possible), I think he'll win the presidency in a landslide, as the white knight the GOP base wants and the camera-ready coastal celebrity the Northeast admires. I worry about him because he's a moral scold and a big believer in government secrecy, and because the jodhpurs and riding crop of the Bush presidency at the height of its popularity fit him like a glove. I think his presidency would be Bush and Cheney's third term -- and reports of Bush-Cheney people working with him make me wonder whether they think so, too.