Judith Giuliani has had to cop to her first marriage after investigators unearthed the marriage certificate in Las Vegas.

Like a lot of thrice-married women, Mrs. Giuliani succumbed to the temptation to knock one off the list--after all, two marriages is not that unusual, but three suggests that you might be the problem.

The real question is why the Giuliani campaign didn't address this issue right out of the gate?

Rudy's marriages are a matter of public record, and a problem for the campaign. One would think that the best thing to do was dump the whole sorted mess at one time and deal with it in unitary fashion, rather than prolong the agony with new revelations. Are we going to find a fourth marriage in a few months?

Three marriages doesn't speak well of Rudy's judgment. Keeping his wife's first marriage under wraps doesn't ameliorate that impression.