One of the things I’ve been giggling over since Rudy Giuliani joined the presidential race is a constant refrain from partisan Dems who fear that Little Benito will rise to crush the competition in 2008 and that the country will be forced to live through a third Bush term (no one ever thinks beyond that to the unimaginable: a fourth “Bush” [with Rudy-as-Bush] term).

That narrative line keeps getting knocked on its ass, though, with headlines like this:

Giuliani gave to Planned Parenthood

If you’re going to accuse Rudy of being a fascist, this is not exactly supporting evidence for your claim.

Rudy Giuliani’s job is to shore up his base. Luckily for him, his base is the vast center of America, where he can potentionally pick off a whole lot of votes just on the basis of who he was married to the second time around:

Federal tax returns made public by the former New York mayor show that he and his then-wife, Donna Hanover, made personal donations to national, state and city chapters of Planned Parenthood totaling $900 in 1993, 1994, 1998 and 1999.

Things are just starting to get interesting.