The GOP's Abortion Fratricide During last week's GOP debate, Rudy Giuliani waffled on abortion—there's only one permissible position on the issue in the GOP, and that's agin it—and suggested that the world wouldn't end if Roe v. Wade didn't.

Now, they're tearing him apart. Not only is he relatively tolerant on abortion rights, he actually once gave money to Planned Parenthood! He is the devil!

Actually, I think Giuliani is a dangerous man, as do most New Yorkers who remember his second term, so I don't mind him taking a little heat. You wait—he'll blow his cool soon and commit a gaffe that will haunt the rest of his doomed campaign.

But the larger issue, of course, is that the GOP is fating itself to irrelevance by harping on social issues. Which, much as it is sort of fun to watch, is probably not good for the country.  ¶ 9:02 AM