My column for today’s American Spectator discusses the sad state of the GOP race for the 2012 presidential nomination, and the need for a deus ex machina to save the Republicans from themselves:
More than half of the respondents to last week’s AP-GFK survey said the President should be voted out next November. Nonetheless, he may well win a second term. How? Obama obviously can’t run on his record, so his consiglieres will have to base his reelection campaign on a combination of demagoguery, personal vilification and race-baiting.
And it’s difficult to imagine a group of candidates more vulnerable to this line of attack than the top contenders for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination. So, what’s the solution? Jeb Bush.
There is no guarantee, of course, that Bush would suffer himself to be lowered onto the political stage in order to resolve the ridiculous plot dilemma the Republicans have written for themselves. On the other hand, his column in yesterday’s WSJ has the tone of a man who might listen if the idea were pitched in the right way by the right people. And he may well be the GOP’s only hope.
To read the rest of the column click here.
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