I’m not sure it says anything good about Rudy Giuliani, the Republican Party or the country as a whole that he seems more willing to throw his political convictions to the winds on gay marriage than on abortion. ~Ross Douthat

It probably doesn’t say anything good.  What it seems to say is that Giuliani knows he has throw social conservatives a bone somewhere and has chosen to throw them the tiniest, most pathetic bone he could find, which means he thinks they are stupid and easily bought.  What it says about the GOP is that its current presumed “frontrunner” understands that much of the GOP leadership doesn’t care that deeply about these things, and it cares even less about the far more significant moral issue of the day.  What it says about the country may still be up in the air.  It will depend on whether social conservative voters rally around Giuliani, “new fusionist”-style, because he promises give some foreigners a good thwacking.  If they don’t, there is still a lot of hope for this country.  If they do…