My column in today’s American Spectator laments a Republican primary process that seems destined to end in the nomination of the only politician in the country who can’t beat Obama in November:
In the final scene of Thelma & Louise, when Detective Hal Slocumb realizes that the two desperate demoiselles are about to drive off the edge of the Grand Canyon, he runs after them in a futile attempt to stop their senseless suicide. When I first watched that scene, twenty years ago, my primary emotion involved the tragic loss of that ‘66 Thunderbird. Now I think I finally understand the impotent despair the film’s screenwriter, Callie Khouri, was attempting to convey when she sent Slocumb on his hopeless sprint.
Witnessing the GOP contests in Iowa and New Hampshire has been much like watching Louise stomp on the accelerator of that beautiful car. It’s so easy to foresee the slow-motion descent into the electoral abyss.
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My brother sent this to me. If Romney is smart, he will note that as governor of one of the most liberal states in the Union, he was obligated to give people what they wanted, and one of the things they most ardently desired was socialized medicine. NO ONE, repeat NO ONE, can govern Massachusetts as a true conservative; Romney did the best he could with the material he had. The mistake others make is in assuming that Massachusetts is actually a part of America. Having lived there for five years, I know better.
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