I’m beginning to wonder just how far back has Romney been, through his operatives, manipulating the Party, press, and other’s campaigns in order to have himself positioned as not only the inevitable candidate but President too. Quotes below from several places that seem to me to point in that direction when taken together.

Sarah Palin decries the Alinskyite tactics an organized GOP establishment has been using to clear the field for its preferred candidate, Mitt Romney, and the response from certain conservatives is to note that it is the TEA Party who profits most from the tactics of Alinsky — indeed, that it relies on them for its very political successes: Rather than reject Alinsky’s rules for radicals, the Tea Party has adopted

Two of the newer excuses trotted out in recent weeks for the continued lackluster performance of the several “Recovery Summers!” we’ve suffered through under Obama’s stewardship are as follows: first, we’re told, any comparison of the Obama economic recovery to the Reagan economic recovery is “unfair” given Reagan’s ability to factor in growth in the housing market, the single indicator that is keeping Obama’s Keynesian gimmicks from really boosting economic