Bill Kristol is really depressed about the quality of the Republican candidates and he is pining for fat-ass loudmouth Chris Christie to get into the race. Why not someone popular in their home state? Is Bobby Jindal busy? He’s strong enough that the Dems can’t even find someone willing to run against him. Gov. Christie will be a one-term governor whether he runs for president or not. He only won because his opponent used to run Goldman-Sachs. As for Rick Perry, I don’t know what he did, but no one in Washington seems to like the guy.
Now there are some legitimate excuses. With nine candidates on the stage, and answers restricted to one minute, it’s hard to really show your stuff. And two of the candidates—Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney—did provide respectable performances. But no front-runner in a presidential field has ever, we imagine, had as weak a showing as Rick Perry. It was close to a disqualifying two hours for him. And Mitt Romney remains, when all is said and done, a technocratic management consultant whose one term as governor produced Romneycare.
My heart weeps for Bill Kristol.
