In his column over the weekend, conservative stalwart George Will excoriated Mike Huckabee and Newt Gingrich for their disingenuous, false comments about President Obama being a Kenyan. Will concludes that Republican voters are “detecting vibrations of weirdness emanating from people associated with the party,” and he worries that some of this nonsense will hurt the GOP’s presidential chances in 2012.
“Let us not mince words,” Will writes. “There are at most five plausible Republican presidents on the horizon — Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, former Utah governor and departing ambassador to China Jon Huntsman, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney and former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty.
“So the Republican winnowing process is far advanced. But the nominee may emerge much diminished by involvement in a process cluttered with careless, delusional, egomaniacal, spotlight-chasing candidates to whom the sensible American majority would never entrust a lemonade stand, much less nuclear weapons.”
Now that’s tough stuff.
