Rudy Giuliani's campaign has put out a new memo arguing that they're right where they want to be for winning the nomination, seeking to deflate the emerging conventional wisdom that Rudy has collapsed. The memo doesn't just downplay the early states where Rudy has gone downhill — it compares the candidates who are pursuing those states to two Democrats that Republicans love to hate:

As voting nears in the Republican nomination process, our campaign remains convinced that our strategy we have long had in place is right – bold, innovative and designed to deal with the radically different election calendar. While many of the beltway insiders seem to remain committed to the old “Carter/Clinton” approach and have questioned the adjustments we have made to our strategic thinking based on the new calendar, we clearly have a winning plan to secure the nomination in an election cycle unlike any other. History will prove us right.

(Via Mark Halperin)