There are so many things to say about the state of the presidential primaries that it is difficult to know where to start. But here’s a stab at it. Whoever they support now, I think a big majority of Democrats would be comfortable supporting any of the three members of the current top tier — Clinton, Edwards and Obama. Is there any member of the GOP top three — Giuliani, McCain and Romney — who even a majority of Republicans would be comfortable supporting?
Think about it.
On the Republican side, I think the money numbers are entirely secondary to news from the Giuliani campaign. Rudy still supports public funding of abortions. Apprently we’re still supposed to be in that pretend place where we believe that Rudy Giuliani can be the Republican nominee. But let me go out on a limb. Nobody who supports public funding of abortion is going to be the nominee of the Republican party. Say all you want about Rudy’s ‘leadership uber alles’ campaign platform: I’m not buying it. So I don’t think Rudy can be the Republican nominee. And I think it’s increasingly unlikely that John McCain will be either — he’s becoming a cliche.
So who? Romney? I’d have to say that seems like the most likely scenario at the moment. But only because the other scenarios don’t seem possible.
