David Brooks: Romney can't win.

This one is sure to send ripples throughout the blogosphere:

money quote: (is this just because I watched 'Swingers' last night?)

The leaders of the Republican coalition know Romney will lose. But some would rather remain in control of a party that loses than lose control of a party that wins.

Mitt has outspent every other candidate -Republican and Democrat- combined in Iowa and is STILL weaker in an Iowa general match-up than McCain and Huckabee. For weeks elites have turned a blind eye to Romney's electability problem and yet they play the FUD card all day long on Huckabee's electability.

Now it all clicks...

UPDATE:
Andrew Sullivan eerily agrees.