Gov. McDonnell, Where For Art Thou?

As the GOP primary inexplicably devolves into 'I'm more socially conservative than you' amidst the worst economy since the Great Depression, I can't help but prepare myself for an Obama victory this November. Despite $4 gas and $5 bread, our alternatives to the fumbling, inumbent president, well...they just suck. I'll hold my nose vote for the nominee, but I'm not sure anyone else will bother.

But since that is a juvenile way to state our situation, I would like to defer to the far more elegant Amy Peikoff to shine the light of hard truth on our naked emperors:

Republican luminaries also leave much to be desired. Look at the “final four”: an unprincipled intellectual wild card who is a proven failure as a political leader; a former governor who enacted government-run health care at the state level and has no vision for reducing the size or scope of government; a failed senator who would replace liberal, big-government programs with conservative government intrusion into people’s lives; and a serving congressman who understands that government is the problem but whose foreign-policy views are more appropriate for the age of sail and grapeshot than nuclear weapons and global terrorism. None of them has the right mix of experience, policy savvy and charisma to set the race afire, and members of the four opposing camps all wish there could be another Ronald Reagan.

If only my boy, Bobby McD, would reconsider...