The election will be Romney vs. “not Romney.” The leading “not Romney” candidate after Iowa, NH & SC will run away with the “not Romney” vote. It won’t be enough if all other “not Romney” supporters continue trashing the leader after that point. This is how we ended up with Meghan’s daddy.
Exactly. I hear all these pundits saying how it is “so obviously Romney’s” but it is so obviously not his. 75% of GOP voters don’t want him. And they go from Bachmann to Perry to Cain to Newt it only goes to show that they will NOT go to Romney.
Now it has been so long since a real GOP convention slugfest I am not sure I even know the rules. But the non-Romney vote will have to coagulate and after the first 5-10 primary states when a few of these folks drop out, we’ll see but I doubt many will endorse Romney. I don’t think Romney can win enough delegates and that means a brokered convention. In such a case it could be anyone - even Christie.
I really really wanted Cain to win, because I really really wanted this election to be about our tax code, about corruption in the tax code, about power, about us vs them, and so I hoped he could put it together. Unfortunately, other than the sex thing I fear Cain is failing to get good, solid answers out. He isn’t really doing a great job explaining 999! It’s too bad because for the first time in ages I was excited about a candidate (I was excited about his idea). Unfortunately he probably won’t hold the lead he held.
Newt showed real leadership and clear thinking in the last debate. I know Conservatives have serious issues and GOPers fear his long history (there are 10,000 sound bites to use against him) but there is no doubting that he is a leader of men and women, who knows Washington, and I think he could make a good candidate. I just wish he wasn’t such an insider - I wish he had used his time off to develop a set of policies to reform Washington. If he does win the nomination, perhaps he will pick up some reformist agenda to run in the general. Lord knows we need reform.