Couldn’t help but notice that the twitter account @DraftMarcoRubio has a solid 6,633 followers.

At the same time, a bunch of Republican donors from Iowa went all the way out to New Jersey to beg Governor Chris Christie to run for president.

Folks are just not that into the Republicans running for president. More importantly, they are visibly undermining the current field by courting (currently) uninterested politicians like Rubio and Christie.

Despite actions like these, the nominee is still likely to come from the current field (which includes folks who haven’t actually filed, like Huntsman and even Daniels), which means that it will be widely known that whoever wins that poisoned fruit was not anyone’s first choice or favorite.

To use a soccer metaphor, winning the ’12 Republican presidential nomination will be like winning the World Cup in a year when Italy, Brazil, Argentina, France, and Germany all decided to skip out and wait four more years to participate.

Yeah, sure you’re the GOP nominee, but no one actually thinks you deserve to be standing up on that stage at the convention.