Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani isn’t just thinking about running for president next year: It’s his obsession and he’s already mapping out a strategy to knock off GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney in New Hampshire.

According to a long-time supporter, New York Rep. Peter King, running and winning this time is “almost a full-time business for him.”

What’s more, adds King, Giuliani has already been “talking to people in New Hampshire” about his strategy to focus all his early attention there, not the Iowa caucus, because beating Romney in the former Massachusetts governor’s political backyard will propel the New Yorker’s candidacy into the next two showdowns in South Carolina and Nevada.

“He would focus on New Hampshire almost entirely,” said King at a Monday night dinner organized by the conservative American Spectator magazine. “He is very close to running.”

And apparently so is King. Urged to run by his local GOP supporters, King said he was game for a presidential bid. The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, who has a knack for grabbing controversial topics said, “Why not see where it’s going to go. Odds are one in a million.” But, he added, running for president provides him a national “forum” to address his concerns about terror attacks in America and charges that the Muslim community is not being cooperative enough with the FBI.

He added that his first choice was New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, but the first-termer rebuffed King’s efforts to get him into the race.

Giuliani ran a poor race in 2008 and King said some of the blame goes to all the strategists the former mayor hired. “They were keeping Rudy from being Rudy,” said King.

Despite being quiet on whether or not he plans to run, Giuliani has polled well. In the most recent Suffolk University poll, he was the third choice of GOP primary voters.

But his moderate positions on social issues, like abortion, could cause him problem since the GOP primary voters have become more conservative.

(Source: US News)