The NY Times’ Frank Rich tells the story I heard from no mainstream news outlets last week during April 22’s Pennsylvania Primary and the rush to figure out whether a not-quite-double-digit win for Hillary Clinton means a bigger loss for Barack Obama: namely, that John McCain as the only Republican presidential candidate still in the race, did NOT fare well with PA GOPers who often voted for anybody BUT McCain including Mike Huckabee and Ron Paul, gone from the campaign trail for a few months.

Does this mean Republicans as a whole in this country would be willing to elect a dead man over McCain, so long as that dead man is a death penalty fan while supporting the right to make women’s wombs public property all while wearing an American flag pin in their lapel?