THINGS THAT DON’T BOTHER ME: Rudy Giuliani donated to Planned Parenthood? Hey, that’s okay. So have I.

I understand that the pro-life people, and the social-cons generally, are unhappy with this. But hey, a lot of gun-rights people thought that Bush was squishy on the gun issue — and he has been. Nonetheless, he’s been a lot better than Kerry or Gore would have been had they been elected; his support for the assault weapons ban, for example, was extremely limp. Likewise, the social-cons are crazy if they let this sort of thing keep them home on election day in 2008. And I think that the Republicans’ troubles started — as I pointed out at the time — when the social-cons overplayed their hand during the Terri Schiavo affair. But hey, vote for who you want.