Clarification Appended: February 8, 2007
Rudy Giuliani trots out a joke when people ask how someone like him--a thrice-married New Yorker who supports gun control, abortion rights and gay rights and who shared an apartment during his second divorce with a couple of gay guys and a Shih Tzu named Bonnie--could possibly win the Republican presidential nomination. "Of course there are disagreements," he'll say. "You never agree with any one candidate 100%. I don't agree with myself 100%."
It's not much of a joke, but then Giuliani's predicament is no laughing matter. The former New York City mayor is at or near...