Post-Moribund

Frank Rich summarizes the week the "Pundits" from David Broder to Joe Klein had over the last few days and how accurate they were in regard to Obama & Huckabee:

The “they” who did not see the cultural power of these men, of course, includes not just the insular establishments of both their parties but the equally cloistered echo chamber of our political journalism’s status quo. It would take a whole column to list all the much-repeated Beltway story lines that collapsed on Thursday night.

But some are worth recounting because they prove nearly as instructive as they are laughable. The Benazir Bhutto assassination was judged as a boon for Mrs. Clinton because it would knock the silly voters to their senses by reminding them it was no time to roll the dice with foreign-policy novices. Oprah Winfrey’s Obama rallies were largely viewed as a routine celebrity endorsement, while Mr. Romney’s address on “Faith in America” was judged as momentous as “Mission Accomplished.” Only a week ago, Mr. Huckabee was literally laughed at by reporters for his “Howard Dean meltdown” at a press conference where he contradictorily exhibited and then disowned an attack ad on Mr. Romney.

The final Des Moines Register poll — Mr. Huckabee up by six points and Mr. Obama by seven — was greeted with near-universal skepticism. John Edwards and John McCain, we were reliably informed by those “on the ground,” were surging in Iowa.

Meanwhile, the pundits have moved on to impart the same wisdom in New Hampshire by claiming it's stupendously different from Iowa.

Whatever.

When will one of the National Enquirer's psychics be hired?