The thing about the GOP is that even the promisingly normal among them get warped and mangled by the incentives of the primary process. Bobby Jindal, Rudy Giul

The thing about the GOP is that even the promisingly normal among them get warped and mangled by the incentives of the primary process. Bobby Jindal, Rudy Giuliani and Chris Christie all looked like somewhat reasonable choices at one point, until they had to go through the primaries and came out the other end as twisted, raving loonies. Nikki Haley looks fine now but there's no reason to think she'd fare any better.