Governor Romney has nothing to run on. So what do you do? Raise $20 million in the first quarter and plow it into television advertising that creates a candidate. Here's the catch: it works.
It would mean that the politics as we now know it, and to a certain degree accept it, has taken a good man out of the race.
As I write this, Al Gore is on a train to New York. Yes, the train will emit carbon. Just like it will tomorrow and the next day and the next and that is the point that Live Earth makes, carbon critics be dammed.
Rudy Giuliani is not a hero. Not, not, not, not, not a hero. And nowhere in his career was he less of a hero than he was on 9/11.
The time has come to have a serious discussion about Al Gore and about whether or not you want him to run for president because let's be honest with each other, Al Gore doesn't have to run.
Al Gore can raise the money. Al Gore can run a four-month campaign. Al Gore can get to 2,182. But he needs to stand up by September 1 and start exploring.
