August 26, 2010 12:09 AM UTC

And a Fine Lot of Good It Did 'Em

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• by: Colorado Pols

Politico’s Ben Smith observes:

This March, two attorneys general took the lead in lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of the health care overhaul: South Carolina’s Henry McMaster and Florida’s Bill McCollum. Another, Michigan’s Mike Cox, soon signed on.

The lawsuits made them national leaders on the central national issue, and seemed tailor-made for Republican primaries. But all three lost those primaries, as CNN’s Peter Hamby noted of the first two last night…

Now, individual circumstances apply as Politico’s Smith is careful to note: Henry McMaster lost to the charismatic Nikki Haley, and Bill McCollum got buried in an avalanche of money from a candidate who also ran against federal health care reform.

But being Attorneys General on the front lines against “ObamaCare” may not be the career-making moment these folks probably imagined it would be for them this spring. All the other rules of politics still apply as it turns out. Hopefully for his sake, John Suthers is paying attention…