Here's MSNBC's Dylan Ratigan behaving like your high-school gym coach this morning when his guest Mark McKinnon tried to talk about something that wasn't marked down on Ratigan's clipboard as an approved topic of conversation.

Mark Sanford was totally going to be the next president, until he fell in love with Maria. Now, not so much. But Republican strategists have so many other Great White Hopes! What disasters will greet them?