The drumbeat has begun by the establishment to prematurely anoint their preferred candidate One of the reasons the Republican Party enjoys any popularity at all is because it is as comfortable as an old shoe: predictable, safe, conservative, and welcoming of those Americans who believe in old-fashioned values like overt patriotism, nuclear families, faith in God, and American exceptionalism. It is not a party of revolutionaries (the Tea Party is more classically defined as a counter-revolution), boat rockers, non-conformists, renegades, or heretics. This usually makes choosing a presidential candidate a rather staid affair with polite but pointed scrums among the...