At the moment we may be looking - unbelievable as it may seem to many conservatives - at a Huckabee / McCain race for the GOP nomination. But today's George Will column suggests that more surprises may be coming. Consider:
The Clintons' decision to cast the election as a bridge back to the 1990s - to themselves; another bridge to nowhere - has her campaign, in characteristically retrospective mode, stressing that by the time her husband won his first 1992 contest, in Georgia, he had lost six others.
Why bring up in the Clintons in a post on the GOP race? Because it's possible that something similar to what happened with the Democrats in 1992 may happen with the Republicans in 2008. Say Romney campaigns hard and pulls out a win in Michigan. Then the first three contested races would have gone to three different victors. Say Huckabee fades after Romney's win and Thompson comes on strong in South Carolina. Then the first four contested races would have gone to four different victors. This sets up Giuliani for a comeback in Florida, where he is staking the future of his campaign. In which case you would have five different victors in five different contests. Unlikely? Sure. But it's happened before, in the Democratic party. And certainly none of the Republicans has a majority - or even a strong plurality - of the party behind him (at least for now).