It proceeds apace, apparently. Presidential campaigns are funny things. They really have a logic to them that can carry candidates off in unexpected directions. I don’t think Pat Buchanan would have known how far he would end up departing from conservative orthodoxy when he began running for president in 1992. Or that John McCain planned to make a full-frontal assault on the GOP establishment in 2000. But certain departures–in McCain’s case, campaign finance reform–carried them off into those postures as “B” must follow “A.” Now it looks like Giuliani could end up running a campaign straight into the teeth of social conservatives, when surely that’s not what he intended when he began running. But that’s the “B” that follows from his “A” of being a pro-choicer who doesn’t want to go the Coverdell/Hutchison route of reaching an accommodation with pro-lifers. It seems to me–unless the changing primary schedules have utterly scrambled the typical dynamic of the Republican primaries–that this is a foolish strategic choice. But maybe that’s the wrong way to look at it. Maybe I’ve been wrong to say that Giuliani doesn’t care about abortion, and he does really feel deeply about a woman’s right to abortion–and doesn’t want to be defensive about it any more.