Simple Lessons

By Matthew Yglesias
Wise words from Rich Lowry:
The one blatantly obvious lesson from his candidacy that is going oddly unremarked is: Don't run as a pro-choicer for the Republican presidential nomination.
The strange thing is that people keep re-learning this lesson -- Pete Wilson, Steve Forbes, now Rudy Giuliani. It's genuinely bizarre. You don't see any Democrats thinking they can win a Democratic presidential nomination as a pro-lifer.

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