Vilsack is out

One day after sparking a firestorm by ruminating about using the Social Security trust for other purposes, former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack (seen at right chatting with George Stephanopolous on ABC's This Week) will withdraw from the Democratic field.

In fairness, he just never caught fire, did he? Until he touched the third rail of politics, that is, and then he went up in flames. (If this seems short, heck, I just wrote as much about it as Chris Cillizza who writes The Fix for the Washington Post.)