Wuss?

Okay, you're not gonna believe this one.

Tucker Carlson - Tucker Carlson - says Barack Obama is not manly enough to be president. No, wait... did I mention that it was Tucker Carlson who said it?

Yes, the same Tucker Carlson who is on record admitting that he feels physically emasculated by Hillary Clinton - that Tucker Carlson.

Tucker says Obama is... wait for it... "a wuss." Oh, and in the process, he gets in the standard conservative dig against Hillary, by the way - that she is just manly enough to be president.

CARLSON: This is the Democratic Party, Bill! The establishment's not going to win in the end, right? Someone's going to give the middle finger to the man, OK. And the man in this case is a chick! Hillary. OK, she's the man here, right? She's the DNC [Democratic National Committee]. Why -- when are ordinary Democrats going to say: "You know what? We're sick of having Rome, or whatever -- the man tell us what to do," and start backing Barack Obama?

BILL PRESS (radio talk show host): Look, Tucker, at some point Barack Obama is going to make his move. I don't know whether he's going to be able to overtake Hillary or not, but the fact is -- and this shows it -- he's going to have all the resources he needs, all the people that he needs to tackle Hillary and take her head on. She's going to have a full-fledged, totally financed candidate --

CARLSON: He seems like kind of a wuss, though. I mean, don't you gotta be tougher than just the man who's against cynicism, the purer-than-thou candidate? Vote for Barack Obama because he's more decent than you are? I mean, come on. Give me a break.

Actually, Tucker, the appeal of Obama isn't that he's more decent than we are. It's that he's more decent than they are (and I think you know who I mean). Of course, that's pretty much true of every Democratic candidate. That's why the Democrats are trying to pick the best nominee from a group of truly outstanding individuals, and the GOP is just trying to isolate the least bad of a wretched lot.

The truly dreadful odds facing whichever one these misfits the Republicans settle on must be what's driving these crude efforts at stereotyping the Democratic frontrunners. I guess when you're a Republican, it's never too early to start cheapening the discourse.

I love the smell of Tucker Carlson's cheezy flop sweat in the afternoon. Smells like... desperation.

You know, some day this election's gonna end...