At the risk of belaboring the obvious, you can't win an election if you can't get the nonimation of your party. If you lose the primary, you are unelectable.
That describes Dick Riordan, and good riddance. He has stabbed far too many GOP candidates in the back, and has far too radical a social agenda, to have ever warranted serious consideration for a coronation by Bush and Rove.
They picked a loser.
One question... When you say:
"Turns out Bushie's instinct was good as gold again. They shoulda listened."
Who shoulda listened?
