I didn't watch it. Yeah, I know it was on, but it's just too early for me to care. And I also think that these so-called "debates" are a bad joke. Particularly when the questions are loaded by liberal moderators.

But NRO did, and had a lot of live blogging on The Corner (no, not even going to link to specific posts--scroll, if you care). But Rich Lowry had some post-debate thoughts, and this was one that resonated strongly with me:

Rudy's getting hit hard on his Roe answer. But it wasn't a gaffe and it perfectly represented his view—a lukewarm, let-the-judges-figure-it-out position. It was always obvious this would cause Rudy problems. The weird thing is that I don't think it's even a sincere position. He probably doesn't care much about abortion, and I believe he doesn't want to oppose Roe mostly because he thinks it would be too confusing for people if he opposed it as a pro-choicer. So, his position is harmful to his candidacy and insincere. That's kind of crazy if you think about it. If a given position is hurting you and it's something you don't really believe, change your position!

No kidding.

As I've noted before, one can be opposed (or in favor of) Roe regardless of one's opinions about abortion. Roe was a constitutional travesty. Maybe he thinks that the electorate is too dumb to understand such an argument. But more likely, he's just saying whatever he thinks he has to get elected.