“Rock star”?
Why do these newspapers still run around thinking they are kingmakers?
They just want to make sure the GOP nominates the most damaged (and left-wing) candidate imaginable (so just in case if they actually do win, they’ll enact policies most detrimental to Conservatism and the GOP). It’s why the media loves Slick Willard and loathes Sarah Palin.
They are making it seem “inevitable”. The republicans allow and seem to encourage this to happen over and over.
Astroturf emulation of the Palin phenomena.