Imagine having to choose between the second coming of Fred Thompson who effectively wants to extend Matt Blunt's term by four years [1] or some woman whom Chamber of Commerce members describe this way [2]...

She was awful…She couldn’t string a sentence together…She wasn’t prepared…She made no sense…

Yet despite the widely acknowledged weakness of the GOP primary candidates, there aren't very many Republican lifers out there lamenting Matt Blunt's decision not to run for re-election.  Strange, that.  No?