[almcbean]

I join you in your admiration of Charles, but he definitely has blinders on with this issue. What Charles , and many others are slow to realize is that all the old rules and conventional wisdom is GONE, and if you analyze using these old rules and wisdom you will be wrong - Rubio is unelectable in Fla., PA will never elect someone as conservative as Tommey etc

Let’s cut Charles a little slack and hope that he is just a little slower in coming to the revolution.

[muawiyah]

The "old rules" still work ~ that's why they are rules. The problem isn't with the rules ~ it's with the pundits' understanding of the position of the players.

Castle USEDTABE a reliable Republican "stand in". More recently he's passed over into senility so he's no longer reliable.

Same thing is happening to some of the pundits, and then there's the Karl Rove problem ~ we may be getting an understanding of why he didn't finish college.