We all knew this would happen, right?
Fearing that Republicans will ultimately nominate an establishment presidential candidate like Jeb Bush, leaders of the nation’s Christian right have mounted an ambitious effort to coalesce their support behind a single social-conservative contender months before the first primary votes are cast.
In secret straw polls and exclusive meetings from Iowa to California, the leaders are weighing the relative appeal and liabilities of potential standard-bearers like Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana and the former governors Rick Perry, of Texas, and Mike Huckabee, of Arkansas.
It was during the Terri Schiavo grotesquerie that I realized how sick the Republicans had actually become, and Jeb Bush played no small part in that. I like his support for immigration reform, however, and his support for Common Core, so I wouldn’t say the Schiavo fiasco rules him off the table.
But … Cruz? Jindal? Perry? Huckabee? Could they possibly be serious?