It’s a good thing nobody issued me a pundit certificate, because I can’t get any more interested in the Republican primary in New Hampshire than I was in that dull football game last night.
The only suspense seems to be “will Romney win by single-digit percentage points and thus ‘lose’ or will he win by double-digit percentage points” in which case he’ll be the presumed nominee without bothering with all those other primaries yet to come. I admit, though, that it’s amusing to watch Gingrich, Huntsman and Perry all bash Romney for his behavior as a vulture capitalist while he ran Bain & Co. They’re essentially trying out the Democrats’ attack plan on the guy before the play gets to Broadway in the summer and fall of this year.
Gingrich, on Monday:
“You have to ask the question, is capitalism really about the ability of a handful of rich people to manipulate the lives of thousands of people and then walk off with the money?”
Makes you wonder if Newt is secretly on the Democratic National Committee payroll, doesn’t it?
As far as I can tell he’s never turned down a check from anyone else, why not them?
A friend of mine, active in the California Democratic Party, predicts the Republican race will produce NO majority candidate and will go to a brokered convention, out of which the candidate will be Jeb Bush. I told her if Jeb wasn’t willing to run in 2000 (and he wasn’t; ominous but vague rumors of “skeletons in the closet,” which I’ve heard may relate to cocaine use), he certainly won’t be willing this time…