ROGER SIMON: A Letter to the Republican Presidential Candidates from a Former Democrat. “Everybody’s got an ego, everybody wants to win, but if you have to achieve that by cutting down the other guy, maybe you don’t deserve to lead, not these days anyway. Things are too extreme, the stakes too high. We need someone who can rise above it. Maybe even smile. . . . You all have a real opponent. His name is Barack Obama and at that Vegas event he was barely mentioned. To most Republican voters these days his political demise is way more important than the identity of his successor. The war cry is ABO – Anybody But Obama – and it should be. So ix-nay on the itriol-vay, even though we all know the media conspire to increase it.” (Bumped).