Another e-mail to The Corner:

This was one election. Well, sort of an election. In one quirky state. A few hundred votes here or there and the outcome is completely different. And we have supposedly serious political analysts assuring us that it all means Romney is now dead. First, they can’t know this. The punditocracy is wrong more than right, but there is never any penalty for being wrong. Second, even if that is what happens, eventually, what a screwed up mess it is of a system, when the rest of us never get a chance to weigh in, as the “mad in Virginia” person said. I live in Virginia, too, and I’d like to think I have a choice that doesn’t depend on what the people of Iowa and New Hampshire — or at least what some small sliver of the people of Iowa and New Hampshire — think about the candidates. You are supposed to be like the Senate — cool, considerate men who calm the passions of the moment. Instead, you’re throwing gas on a fire, and helping Huckabee or McCain burn us all down.