This is no disoriented, easily led citizenry. On the contrary. It is thoughtful and discriminating. For Republicans, this means there is no coasting to victory, 9 percent unemployment or not. They need substance. They need an articulate candidate with an agenda and command of the issues who is light on slogans and lighter still on baggage.Now, I would have trouble delineating any given electorate as thoughtful and discriminating - but people do have instincts and those instincts can be as right as anything else when it comes to understanding a problem of the type electorates are usually asked to adjudicate.
Unfortunately, Krauthammer is hardly a kingmaker - in fact very likely the exact opposite of such given that when he in similar fashion a year or so ago advised running the Palin bandwagon off the road the base excoriated him as a typical example of the out of touch elitism of Washington smarty pants - so I'm not taking this back door endorsement as a sign that Cain the Idiot is done for and the path is now clear for Romney [and I suppose I shouldn't rule out possibility that Charlie in a roundabout way has a third party challenger in mind here - can't be he's talking about Gingrich, can it? No, no - Newt's virtually a personification of baggage]
It does sort of set up an interesting dynamic though, ie should Cain, through the sheer stupefied will of his supporters, manage to survive his many shortcomings and continue to pose a serious threat to Romney, one could foresee a damaging bifurcation of republican sympathies on the horizon - because my take is a large proportion of conservative intellectuals have come to the same conclusion I have, that Cain would be a disaster and Romney is clearly the only logical choice here given the options - but the base seems to be thinking, rather, feeling something entirely different. If Cain becomes a serious threat you could definitely see a destructive fracturing on the right.
