Your 2012 GOP Nominee will be Mitt Romney

Might as well get this out of the way now. It's been my gut feeling for months now and seeing him at the New Hampshire debate tonight pretty much confirmed it for me.

Romney seems a lot looser this time around. He's actually discovered how to stick to his guns (kinda, in his own Romney-esque way) with regard to his health care plan. He works his balls off. It's his turn. Iowa isn't as important to Republicans as it is to Democrats. He's doing very well in South Carolina. He can raise more money than Croesus. Name recognition. All the usual reasons, for better and for worse.

That will be all.

Herb Kohl Makes 2012 a Little More Boring

Did you really think Kohl was going to retire?

Kohl, who will be 77 years old on Election Day next year, had been the subject of retirement rumors because of his age and near empty war chest. He finished the third quarter of 2010 with less than $26,000 in his campaign account.

OK ...

All that remains is to determine the GOP's sacrificial lamb: Ed Thompson? Dave Westlake? Robert Lorge (again)? I know Republicans don't want to encourage her, but I think this is a perfect job for Terri McCormick. She's the ideal candidate for this type of suicide mission: she possesses an outrageous surplus of self-confidence, is completely oblivious to her own faults, closes any distance between her and a camera like Sherman marched to the sea and runs a campaign like Leona Helmsley ran a hotel. If that's not a recipe for electoral magic, then I don't know what is.