(CNN) -- So we're at a point in the campaign where health care reform is about to go on trial at the Supreme Court, unemployment remains high and gas prices are skyrocketing. As for the GOP presidential wannabes, they're arguing over, um, an Etch A Sketch metaphor bungled by a Mitt Romney staffer. ("You can kind of shake it up and we start all over again," Romney senior adviser Eric Fehrnstrom told CNN this week.) Sure, the metaphor has a perfection all its own, given Romney's penchant for redrawing policy lines. It's just low-hanging fruit, hard to pass up. But the picture of two "serious" presidential candidates wandering the trail with an old-school toy as a prop can lead to only one conclusion: This is getting silly.
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Borger: GOP candidates are wandering campaign trail with Etch A Sketch toys
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She says neither Gingrich nor Santorum can win, so why continue?
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In 2008, Romney knew to get out after "he saw the handwriting on the wall," she says
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Borger: Santorum, Gingrich can prolong the race, but would they be blamed for a GOP loss?
One prominent tea party group says, well, I suppose we can live with @placeholder if that's what we have to do.