I keep hearing Romney is the frontrunner and the inevitable nominee. And yet 70% of the Republican base simply doesn’t support him. All of which tells me that the GOP establishment, while it hasn’t learned to fight the left, has learned how to create and then provide support for a narrative they want to declare is an objective truth.
Nice to see they can be taught, I guess.
At any rate, in addition to yesterday’s revelations that ObamaCare was built upon RomneyCare, with the help of Romney’s own people, we have this to add to the surreal spectacle of the GOP hoping to take on Obama with a candidate who was the architect of Obama’s signature legislation, and who joins Obama in his support of stimulus, carbon emission regulations, and a belief in the role of government that is entirely outsized from its actual constitutional mandates.
The establishment political class cares about — and hopes to promote and keep entrenched — the establishment political class. Party matters little, save that the GOP is less radical in its short-term aims than the New Left that has gained control of the Democrats. For this reason, the Dem Party establishment will work behind the scenes to marginalize its radicals; simultaneously, the GOP establishment is at work trying to depress and marginalize the TEA Partiers, and to co-opt conservatives by convincing them that Romney is the only “electable” candidate.
For years I’ve been calling for the kind of elections / primaries that result in stark ideological demarcations — that clarify. If the TEA Party is in fact still strong and laying dormant, Romney — who in many ways is the antithesis of the TEA Party ideal for a candidate — simply cannot get the nomination.
If he does, I expect that, once the TEA Party completes its mission of putting conservatives in the House, the Senate, and local government, the next move will be an organized break, on the part of some, from the GOP proper.
Time will tell. But in a battle of the political class vs. the rest of us, I refuse to throw in with the cynics and opportunists.
Romney is a ball-sucking weirdo. He’s had years to get a handle on this problem. But he seems to think that ball-sucking weirdo-ness is what Team R craves.
This is what happens when you elect cowardly whores like Meghan’s daddy.
It gives people ideas.
err… nominate cowardly whores like Meghan’s daddy I mean
he couldn’t get his bitch ass elected against the most bogus piece of shit the Democrats had put forward since… John Kerry
Somehow or other, frontrunner just doesn’t work for me, attached like that to Mitt Romney. It’s almost an insult to him, after all, being so far from the truth about him. Ne’re-do-well Mitt Romney is much closer.
It’s just an opinion, and at that merely a guess, but I may as well own it. I don’t think Mitt Romney will win the Republican nomination. I don’t think he can.
If Romney does win the nomination, I don’t think he can win the election.
I shan’t vote for Romney. I get more stubborn about that with every Establican push to make himm “inevitable”.
It just seems simple math to me cranky-d. The insiders are way out-numbered, whether they choose to recognize the fact or not.
People keep telling me “Even Romney would be better than four more years of Obama.”
How does losing to Obama make him better than?
The insiders are outnumbered, but they haven’t settled on a candidate yet. That’s what keeps Romney going. Plus, the insiders are counting on an electorate that is “experimenting” right now but will return to the fold when crunch time hits.
I sincerely hope you’re right, sdferr, and Romney doesn’t win the nomination. That fact that I consider that to be a victory just shows how far the party has removed itself from me, and I from it.
We’ll have to wait to see if Cain can survive the onslaught of the MBM and GOP establishment, or if Bachmann can redeem herself. I think Cain can survive more hits because he’s not a politician and therefore expectations are lower, but eventually he’ll have to get his act together a bit more.
It is far from over, no matter what the pundits say.
I can’t see Bachmann fixing her problem, much though I might wish it. This, because she is her problem.
I don’t think Romney would be much better than four more years of Obama, plus it would give the MBM the chance to sell the story that a far-right conservative like Romney couldn’t do better than a centrist like Obama, so what the country needs is another centrist president.
I want a clear choice, and I want actions that are orthogonal to what’s happening now. Mittens will not provide that, so there’s no point in electing him. He will NOT repeal Obamacare, he will sign an executive order to waive it for all 50 states, leaving the law in place for someone else to quietly enact later. He will not enact entitlement reform, he will kick the can down the road again.
I don’t see Bachmann fixing herself either. Her nature is to be a knee-jerk contrarian, and that doesn’t seem to work well in a presidential race. It’s not bad for a minority party in the House, though.
Cain, we have to recall (while listening to talking heads who claim Cain has made no proposals on entitlements [they lie]) suggests the “Chilean model” for Social Security reform. Recalling further, we think back to Uncle Milty.
Speaking of which (entitlement reform), Paul Ryan at the Hoover Institution.
My point exactly. If Mitzi Romneycare is the nominee, the result will be exactly like four more years of Obama, because it will BE four more years of Obama.
We agree, McGehee. Obama could make a few changes to what he’s doing and be just like Mittens. If Obama backed off on Obamacare, and made some small but real spending cuts, you wouldn’t be able to tell them apart.
Apart from the hair.
the GOP establishment, while it hasn’t learned to fight the left
Maybe it’s time we realized that they don’t really want to.
Take a look at these numbers and see who in the race is concerned with beating Romney.
Not Bachmann and Santorum, that’s pretty clear.
Someone ought to ask them about that.