Posted on 12/10/2011 12:50:40 PM PST by Steelfish
The GOP’s Death Wish
By Kathleen Parker December 9
“Anybody but Mitt” has become a familiar mantra throughout the Republican primary campaign. It is also weird and self-defeating.
Republicans apparently want to nominate anyone except the one person who can defeat Barack Obama. And for all the strangest reasons:
One: He’s changed his mind. True. He changed his mind, thus becoming more conservative.
Two: He’s too perfect.
Three: You can’t drink beer with him. Whatever.
The result of these petty obsessions has been a pathological flirtation with a parade of lesser candidates who could replace Romney. This parade has persisted despite polls consistently showing Romney as the most likely to defeat Obama. It continues even though it’s perfectly clear the White House worries most about Romney.
First came Rick Perry, who, now desperate for attention, has turned his sights on gays in the military and Obama’s “war on religion.” Next was Herman Cain, who, though he has suspended his campaign, seems unable to leave the stage.
Now it’s Newt Gingrich’s turn.
You don’t get more un-Romney than Gingrich. Imperfect and untidy, he’s the serial husband with whom anyone could feel comfortable sharing a beer. Or a keg. A sinner like the rest of us, he’s as familiar and comfortable as an old sofa.
But no one other than Callista Gingrich thinks her husband can prevail in a general election. No. One. The consensus on Gingrich is so overwhelming that conventional wisdom has taken a holiday. That is, no one in Washington thinks he can win, and Washington is where Gingrich is known best. Instead of rallying to support him, former colleagues are going out of their way to politely say, “He can’t lead.”
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Only a beltway-addled moron can think that Romney could hold the base together for a win.
The establishment is becoming desperate. They know that we’re on to them.
“..the White House worries most about Romney”
???
I have yet to see the MSM go after Mitt.
I don’t like Newt either, to tell the truth, but this article is all balderdash. Noonan and Parker are Obama sycophants.
Little Miss Parker jumped on the wrong bandwagon at the wrong time. Now she’s getting hysterical.
LoL.... “America wot a country”- Smirnoff
Parker in a hole keeps digging. Contemptible.
Not. Reading.
on the other hand Newt is already saying stupid things, even said he likes parts of ObamaCare.... ugh.....
Mitt or Newt could easily lose this election to Obama because of their own mouths.
Why does everyone assume that Mitt is “the one person that can beat Obama”? That type of phrase is usually the kind of crap uttered by third tier candidates to try to get attention (cough, Paul, cough).
Mittins has not been polling in the lead and frankly, from our previous election cycle, has shown that he can’t turn polling results into votes.
He also has some of the lowest intensity and likeability ratings, only Paul regularly scores lower than him in likeability.
Another leftist posing as a conservative columnist.... what is her fascination with Mittens? I just don’t get it. Truly despicable.
Not buying it, KP (”Knee Paddist.”) Romney’s a loser and a liar. Like his media myrmidons.
John McCain???
Why in the world would anyone in the GOP be taking advice for a Leftist media clown like Parker?
And then less conservative...then more conservative...then less conservative...then even less conservative...then slightly more conservative...the man has changed his political direction more times than a weather vane.
Run a liberal against a Marxist and the best we get is a liberal RINO. No thanks.
[you filthy, ugly, old, Obama-supporting hag.]
“Gosh we hope you don’t run Romney against us” she said. Followed by “And we sure dont want to be thrown in that ol’ briar patch either”
Thanks for the helpful advice Parker- we know you only have the GOP’s best interest at heart
Isn’t a slam from Ms. Parker the kind of endorsement any Republican would want?
winning is not everything. If in winning, your ideology lost, then whats the point
That Waskally Newt - He was mean to (insert name here) in the 1990s when he was speaker...
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