AWESOME RIGHT-WING COMPARISON OF THE DAY. For those of you not fortunate enough to have been watching CNN late yesterday afternoon, Think Progress has the video of J.C. Watts equating Rudy Giuliani's position on abortion with someone who opposed slavery personally, but supported others' rights to own slaves. Yes, you read that correctly. And when Wolf Blitzer did him a huge favor by following up with a request that he clarify "because people are going to criticize you" he simply repeated it. The good news for liberals though, came in the same segment, when Blitzer asked Watts if he would support Giuliani should he become the eventual nominee. Watts totally dodged by just saying that Giuliani's nomination would increase the likelihood of a third party challenge from the right. It seems to me that if a former member of the House Republican leadership won't say that he'll support the nominee, then Giuliani might be a less fearsome candidate to face in the general election than I had previously assumed.
--Ben Adler
