Did Rudy even run a campaign?

I had not been terribly interested in the Republican side of the primaries, but I am perplexed by the situation with Rudy Guliani.

While Romney and McCain were fighting over New Hampshire and Nevada and South Carolina, word was that Guliani was skipping all the preliminaries and focusing on Florida and Super Tuesday. Yet, when Florida rolled around he finished fourth and promptly went home. Other than the debates, it was like he wasn't even in this race.

Either he has the worst campaign strategist ever or he just thought people would just rise up and carry him into the Oval Office based only on his name. While he did clean up New York city, his whole campaing was based on the fact that he happened to be the Mayor of New York City on 9/11. He subscribed to the same fear-mongering that Bush does and that was really all he had.

I am not surprised that he dropped out. I am just surprised that he bothered to run.