The Ghosts Of Failed Candidates Past

by Patrick Appel

Larison compares Palin's 2012 run to Giuliani's doomed 2008 campaign:

You will immediately object that Giuliani and Palin are completelydifferent, and in most respects that's true. Regardless, in one of themost important respects they are very much alike: pundits andjournalists took Giuliani seriously as a candidate for the Republicannomination when there was absolutely no reason to do so, and now morethan a few of them are doing the same thing with Palin. If...