By WILLIAM KRISTOL
o the Republicans of the states of Arizona, Michigan, Washington, Alaska, Georgia, Idaho, Massachusetts, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Vermont, and Virginia:
It is now your turn to vote in the 2012 Republican presidential contest. You will help choose the man who will bear the obligation of saving us (to repeat an earlier editorial) “from the ghastly prospect of an Obama second term, and who will then have the task of beginning to put right our listing ship of state, setting our nation on a course to restored solvency, reinvigorated liberty, and renewed greatness.”
Your choices have been narrowed by your fellow citizens in the nine states that have already voted. Four campaigns are still alive. But only two candidates have, it seems, a realistic chance of winning the Republican nomination for president—Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum.
That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t vote for Newt Gingrich or Ron Paul—if you believe in them, if you would like them to have delegates at the convention, if you can’t vote for your preferred candidate because of ballot access problems, or if you think such a vote could help keep open the possibility of a new entrant to the fray. But the odds of that are slim, almost as slim as the chance that either Gingrich or Paul can win the nomination.
Read more: http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/wilson-fdr-reagan-clinton_631905.html
o the Republicans of the states of Arizona, Michigan, Washington, Alaska, Georgia, Idaho, Massachusetts, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Vermont, and Virginia:
Your choices have been narrowed by your fellow citizens in the nine states that have already voted. Four campaigns are still alive. But only two candidates have, it seems, a realistic chance of winning the Republican nomination for president—Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum.
That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t vote for Newt Gingrich or Ron Paul—if you believe in them, if you would like them to have delegates at the convention, if you can’t vote for your preferred candidate because of ballot access problems, or if you think such a vote could help keep open the possibility of a new entrant to the fray. But the odds of that are slim, almost as slim as the chance that either Gingrich or Paul can win the nomination.
Read more: http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/wilson-fdr-reagan-clinton_631905.html
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