Tea leaves

Ross Douthat leads on:

Too bad. I actually agreed with Hugh Hewitt - it might have been good for the GOP, and conservatism, to have the McCain-Huckabee-Romney debate continue (on friendly terms, ideally) for another month or so, even if the outcome was more or less preordained. But at least this way Mitt can save some of his kids' inheritance for the 2012 campaign

So either Ross thinks that a Democrat will win in 2008, or that the Republican president will be so bad (or something) that they aren't the default candidate for the GOP in 2012. Either way, that doesn't indicate a tremendous confidence in the Republicans' chances going forward. But, I suppose, coming from a fairly unKool-Aided guy like Ross, that's not surprising.

Comments

This early resolution of the McCain/Romney battle means that McCain's problems are somewhat less a concern for his campaign, but the question remains as to whether either with public financiing (which seems unlikely, given McCains evolving position) or public contributions the GOP will be able to contend with the Dems for the Nov. elections without a major handicap. Money has always (since Reagan) been the grease and fuel of GOP campaigns, but which of the GOP three legs will put up the cash? Certainly not the theocons, it seems. The neocons have (crazy) ideas, but little cash (except free media quite often). The corpcons don't seem inclined to fund McCain - but maybe in clinch will open the purses. They haven't done so for McCain to date though.

Meanwhile, what is McCain going to be saying about the Dems from now till the Dem. convention? (I say that somewhat facetiously, since we know that the Dems are just weak, terrorist loving freaks in the GOP media push).

I'm not sure if the factions in the GOP can be healed. Ross's slip of the tongue is just a minor blip compared to Rush claiming he'll raise money for Hillary! Really, isn't the GOP coming apart at the seams?

Half the time I think that the country couldn't be stupid enough to elect a senile, war and fear mongering McCain, and the other half of the time I think we just might do so. In my adult life I've never seen so many indicators that the US itself is coming apart not just at the seams, but the fabric itself is torn and falling apart. Does anybody see any bright light when they look across society and see so many signs of eminent danger?

The old saw about those things that cannot be sustained will not be sustained, seems trite, but isn't it a good description of where the US stands in 2008?

Posted by: JimPortlandOR on February 8, 2008 02:45 PM

word dropped above: "that McCain's problems" should read: that McCain's money problems.

Posted by: JimPortlandOR on February 8, 2008 02:46 PM

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