Metaphor alert

Bob Novak thinks Lindsey Graham has got it goin' on:

Lindsey Graham . . . uses a metaphor from the links to describe his political discomfort. His fellow Republicans remind him of a tournament golfer who ignores the leader board and thinks he is ahead going into the 17th and 18th holes, when he really is trailing.
"It's like we think we'll get by with pars on the last two holes when we really need birdies," Graham told me.

Yeah. And it's like football teams that ignore the scoreboard and, down by a touchdown, go for the field goal. Happens all the time.

I don't doubt that the Republicans could lose (though I doubt they will). I just think that if they do, it will be more Goldmanesque, more "nobody knows anything."

Not so by-the-way, I saw the Prince of Darkness speak in tandem with Mark Shields a few months ago at some trade association event. Doubtless they were paid $50,000, maybe apiece, for their 20 minutes of back and forth. It was the epitome of phoning it in. "We're not thinkers," they may as well have said. "But we play them on TV."