J-Pod,

Come on, now, read more carefully. Larry Sabato was not the one arguing that Rudy Giuliani was the half-point in a 2.5 GOP field with Mitt Romney and Fred Thompson. He was disagreeing with that premise.

If you want to rap a pundit’s knuckles, try Robert Novak’s instead. He was at my think tank yesterday giving a speech, and said that he didn’t see any way for Giuliani to win the nomination without destroying the Republican coalition and consigning the party to a dismal fate. Yep, the Price of Darkness can be pretty dark sometimes. Novak picked Romney or Thompson to go all the way.