Philip Klein argues that his candidate’s flip-flops are less extensive and brazen than Mitt Romney’s. Extensive, I’ll agree with. Romney has flip-flopped on more issues. But I think Klein underestimates how brazen Giuliani’s flip-flop on partial-birth abortion was.

(Giuliani claims that he supports it now because it makes an exception for the life of the mother. But it had that exception when he opposed it; when he opposed it, he did so on it-should-be-a-woman’s-choice grounds and didn’t mention the life-of-the-mother issue; and there’s no evidence the exception would ever be needed anyway.)

But Klein’s aversion to flip-floppery has reached the perverse point where he essentially extols Giuliani’s non-conservative positions as reasons for conservatives to support him, because at least he’s sticking with them.