"A Race Nobody Can Win"

So frets Ross Douthat, and I think he's right.

If you look at the field, every candidate seems to have near-disqualifying weaknesses[,] which helps explain why nobody seems capable of getting above 30-35 percent in any national or state-level poll.

Except Huckabee, it turns out, who can get 40% or so in primaries and then go on to catastrophic defeat in the general election.

Maybe it's time for Rush to break his non-endorsement rule and endorse Thompson. Vigorously. Because Thompson is the only candidate that makes ideological sense for the party -- not offending any key demographics -- but seems incapable of rising as the consensus candidate on his own. He'll have to be carried to the finish line. That doesn't make me sanguine for the general election, but at least we won't have the left-wing version of Martin Sheen in The Dead Zone as our standard bearer.

Meanwhile some are dreaming of a brokered convention, which would be preferable to the Huckabee Tsunami, certainly.

Both stories plucked from the always informative Conservative Grapevine.

posted by Ace at 05:13 PM

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