The game is the game, you know? And one of the rules of the Presidential Primary Game (Press Edition) is that there’s more space to be filled than there are sensible things with which to fill it. (This, plainly, is a problem exacerbated by the intertubes.) This being so, ’tis the season for the traditional game of “Taking a Second Look at People Who Won’t Win The Republican Presidential Nomination”.
Exhibit A, courtesy of Ryan Lizza, this Eric Erickson piece at RedState reconsidering Huntsman. Exhibit B, this is picked up by the smart lads at Business Insider. One more flurry of Huntsmania and we’ll have a bona fide media trend. And, like most such trends, it will be bogus but fun.
We’ve been here before and there’s nothing wrong with that. Way back in 2004, desperate for something vaguely fresh to say, plenty of otherwise sensible folk allowed themselves to write nonsense about the second coming of Joe Lieberman.
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