What's all the more shocking about Giuliani's stable of lunatics is that he's suffering no censure for the hires. Polls show that even Republicans don't much want four more years of war, much less for more years of war squared, so a candidate choosing a bunch of foreign policy advisers from the Curtis LeMay school of international affairs might open him up to attack. But it doesn't, of course, because advocating for a rational foreign policy, even if it's still aggressive, would call your toughness into question, cast doubt on how severely traumatized your higher order thought processes were by 9/11 (the more fried, the better), and thus lose you the primary. The incentives on the Republican end of the election are rather scarily set-up. --Ezra Klein
