Weird Vibes, Charlie. Witchy, Even.

Mention has been made of some column or another by bow-tie daddy George Will, apparently establishing/narrowing the Republican entrants (totes wc;wr?) & mentioning lunacy. We haven't even bothered w/ the reactions, but Daniel Larison's response showed up, & we peeped.

Reason one not to read the other G.W.'s stuff:

Let us not mince words. 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 Romney and former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty.

Sad if true. Mush-mouth Barbour? Plausible?

Larison:

As for the 2012 field, Will is engaged in some wishful thinking. He thinks highly of Mitch Daniels, so he includes him as one of the five plausible prospective candidates.

Number two includes jabs at all the loons, not just Will:

Will seems to take it for granted that Huckabee and Gingrich have disqualified themselves by saying false and stupid things. Evidently, Will has not been paying close enough attention to the quality of debate inside the GOP among its would-be leaders, including the “plausible” ones in Romney and Pawlenty. Will underestimates how much the primary candidates are going to have to accommodate themselves to the “vibrations of weirdness.” That doesn’t mean that Huckabee will run, and it doesn’t follow from this that Gingrich will be competitive, but we’re going to see the 2012 field trying to outdo one another in denouncing Obama and all his works with increasingly implausible, far-fetched claims.

Video Bonus: Rachel Maddow won't repeat Will calling Huck a vibrator.In previous book pimping, note that Huck advised people to look at p. 183 of his opus for his take on Kenya or Indonesia or something. But no. A complete fucking grifter. They must teach the grifting right in the Southern Babtiss seminaries.