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Monday, February 28, 2011

The Republican nomination for 2012

While the media has been engaged in a torrent of discussion about who the GOP will nominate in 2012 to oppose Obama, the potential candidates have thankfully kept themselves out of the race thus far. There is nothing that will happen in the next three months that will determine the outcome of the nomination contest (at least nothing that the candidates will do). At this point in 2007, Giuliani was the clear frontrunner and McCain was just about washed up. While the race might have gone better for the GOP in 2008 if that had been the final result, the point was that no one but the political class was paying any attention to it. Right now, it would do a big disservice to the country to have the various news shows devoting even more time to the horse race aspects of the 2012 campaign. There are critical issues that have to be addressed by the country, items that far outstrip the fundraising prowess of one candidate or the other in importance.

Hopefully, the candidates will be able to stay out of the official race for a while longer. I realize that by June, the pull to announce will be irresistible, but for the sake of the country, the only announcements I want to hear until then should come from those who have decided that they will not run.

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