Gratuitous Post-Michigan Observation

Truth be told, I completely forgot about the primaries last evening. Instead, I was immersed in Edward Gibbon's description of what W.S. Gilbert termed "all the crimes of Heliogabulus".*** (I am determined - determined I say! - to finally get all the way through Decline and Fall.

So I don't really have much to say on what a Mitt! win means or even how I especially feel about it.

As it happens, this is the first election to which the eldest Llama-ette has paid any real attention at all and she's started asking me pretty regularly about who I want to win. I've had to tell her honestly that nobody in the GOP field really excites me, and that as far as I'm concerned, I can only hope that the one who is strongest on national security and fighting the GWOT wins. Even then, I will undoubtedly be forced to hold my nose about some other aspects of his policy, but hey - priorities, right?

*** Spot the quote. It shouldn't be hard.

UPDATE: The Wall Street Journal picks up on this same theme this morning. (The lack of a GOP front-runner, I mean, not the determination to read Gibbon.) I toss this in just as a bit of gratuitous link-whoring and also to remind those of you who have not yet checked out the new format and expanded (free!) content on the WSJ's website to get on over and have a look.