If someone had told me six months that John McCain’s presidential campaign would begin to implode in mid-July of 2007, I would have told that someone to step through the portal and return to the alternate universe from whence she came. Because something like that surely couldn’t happen in our version of reality. But I also didn’t figure that McCain would tie his political fortunes to a collapsing presidency and a failed war. At this point, I’m putting my Monopoly money on Mitt Romney to be the Republican nominee. The GOP base now consists almost entirety of cultural conservatives and anti-tax crusaders. I don’t think they’ll abide Giuliani’s penchant for drag or his serial marriages. And don’t get me started on Fred Thompson. Once the man gets a taste of the rigors of a presidential campaign, he’ll pack it in and head back to the driving range. Romney may be a Mormon, but Republican primary voters are tolerant of religious differences as long as they get a candidate who doesn’t tolerate gays or abortion.
