While I believe in the infallibility of divine insight, your Cardinal is only human, not to mention French and reactionary, so I, um, could be wrong on many of the opinions I’ve been expressing about the primary race. I doubt it. Still, I thought I’d show a little humility in this Holiday season with a special “I could be wrong” posting. This will not be a frequent occurrence. Still, some things your Cardinal may be wrong about: Barack Obama. I’ve predicted he will win the Democratic nomination for some time. But perhaps Hillary Clinton can manage a magnificent comeback in Iowa and roll on like a steamroller to lock up the nomination. Iowa is close. Maybe she will win. Or perhaps John Edwards will win, dent the Obama bubble and give HRC an opportunity to comeback in NH and beyond. I’m doubtful, but such an occurrence is not impossible. I’m a Cardinal, so I do have to believe in miracles. Mike Huckabee. I could be wrong about his fast decaying half-life and perhaps he will surge out of Iowa to finish in the top two in New Hampshire and then potentially win S.C. and even Michigan. Then he’d be in business all the way. Though I still think it is only 50/50 that he wins Iowa. Rudy Giuliani. A muddled finish in the early states, with Huckabee winning Iowa, McCain winning New Hampshire and Romney winning Michigan sets up a Rudy comeback in Florida, where the Mayor has been outspending everybody else on TV and still leads the polls. He also has the support of many of Miami’s Cuban GOP bosses and a strong base of former NY voters in Broward county so he has real assets in Florida. I could turn out to be totally wrong about early state momentum and the Rudy wait and kill strategy actually works. Rudy soars to the nomination. If this happens, I’ll eat my red hat, but again… I could be wrong.
