So the GOP race in the past three months has been dominated by Donald Trump and now the missteps of Newt Gingrich—which missteps have covered some of the missteps of others, like Rick Santorum telling Hugh Hewitt yesterday that John McCain doesn’t understand the purpose of using enhanced interrogation techniques to break prisoners. A debate in South Carolina was singularly uninspired and at times embarrassing. This all suggests that it might have been a brilliant tactical decision by Mitch Daniels, the Governor of Indiana, to wait out the winter and spring and enter the race on the late-ish side, in June. He will have avoided the silliest of the silly season and emerge with the thanks of a grateful party. The same, by the way, was true in 2007 when Fred Thompson, the former senator, entered the race in August to great excitement and great expectations—only it became clear that his heart really wasn’t in it and except for one stunning debate performance his candidacy was stillborn. As long as Daniels is not Thompson in spirit, he can be Thompson in strategy and that would actually be a very good thing for him.