A campaign role reversal
Bill Kristol's new Time column seems to me to nail the state of both the Democratic and Republican nomination races. Writing a bit esoterically, however, Bill buries the lead in the penultimate paragraph of his column:
[T]he G.O.P. race features real differences among the candidates on important and salient issues. Giuliani is pro-choice—and apparently pro-Roe v. Wade—in a pro-life, anti-Roe party. McCain is for something like amnesty for illegal immigrants in a party that is not. There's lots of room for Romney to move up, which he is now doing (he leads in a new Iowa poll), and for Thompson to get in (which he intends to do next month). Romney or Thompson will then battle to become the conservative alternative. It's quite possible that the winner of that battle will defeat McCain and Giuliani for the nomination.I'm not sure why Bill buries the most powerful observation in his column this way, but there it is.
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