Not sure about Romney. A months-old news clip had him supporting increased federal funding for embryo-destructive research. Who knows if that’s still operative? Keeping track of the governor’s evolution is a full-time job.

As for Jeb Bush and Dick Cheney, I’m for drafting either of them. Or Tim Pawlenty. (Notwithstanding the Minnesota governor’s disappointing budget deal.)

As for the politics of Frist’s move, I can see how he would think it a good idea. The polls favor it, his friends in biomedicine favor it too, and he may have thought that he had running room given that McCain, Allen, Romney, and (one assumes) Giuliani favor it too. At the same time, I think it may have been a miscalculation. Being the most pro-life guy in the race could have been an asset to him. What else does he have that’s an actual draw to voters? Not charisma, obviously.