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The decision by the National Right to Life Committee to endorse Fred Thompson for President raised Jake Tapper's eyebrows at ABC. After all, Thompson "opposes a Constitutional amendment to ban abortion." Tapper investigated the committee's explanation that "there was no other choice." Granted Rudolph Giuliani supports abortion rights and Mitt Romney used to do so and John McCain endorses stem cell research on human embryos. But what about "a less popular but more pure" Mike Huckabee? "Huckabee, they said, cannot win." Tapper sarcastically summed up: "Conservative groups are not only focused on the viability of life inside the womb. Political viability matters as well."
Funnily enough, CBS News' latest poll of likely Republican caucusgoers in Iowa showed Huckabee "now in striking distance" (21% v Romney 27%, Giuliani 15%) according to anchor Katie Couric. She was followed immediately by the caveat from political correspondent Jeff Greenfield that in "election after election primary voters decide very late." Greenfield lashed out in a torrent of navel-gazing self-criticism, decrying campaign journalism for "obsessing over every line of every debate, every YouTube video, every slip of the tongue…inflating every event or non-event as if every one were a matter of cataclysmic consequence." He described himself and his colleagues as "kids in the back seat of a car as the family sets out on vacation demanding to know: 'Are we there yet?' No! We are not."
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