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Debate lovefest not what Rudy needed

Rudy Giuliani needed to end Thursday night's GOP debate with bruised knuckles. Instead, he left the stage with a hero's plaque, compliments of his good friend John McCain.

In the aftermath of that unexpected lovefest between front-runner past and present, political strategists and observers were analyzing the irony Friday: How could someone of Giuliani's bare-knuckled reputation have given...

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