Dean Barnett is a staff writer at The Weekly Standard. Dean Barnett is a Romney supporter. Dean Barnett wrote this on Monday,

SO WHAT WOULD a Huckabee nomination mean for the Republican party? First, the good news. Huckabee, as we’ve all discovered, is quite good at seeking office. As a Romney guy, it pains me to say this, but Huckabee may well be our strongest potential nominee. All of the others have well documented weaknesses as wholesale and retail politicians. Huckabee doesn’t.

But Hugh Hewitt says that it’s Romney, whom Barnett also supports, that is the only candidate with no skeletons in his closet:

[The illegal immigrant yard worker story] is also all the dirt they can find on Romney after five years of trying. Voters who want no surprises about the GOP nominee in the fall of ’08 are figuring out that Romeny is a man of great character and zero skeletons. Be assured the Globe would have found them by now.

I don’t doubt one bit that Romney is a man of great character…but a man with “zero skeletons”…? Come on, Hugh! Your enthusiasim for your man is clouding your judgment. We ALL have skeltons, and Romney’s will surface soon enough. I won’t celebrate them when they do.