Charles when I read that post, by the time is is finished, with your contradictions, it comes out as Palin is the dream candidate of the left, and you understand why Romney supporters have switched to Bachmann.
What I keep hearing between the lines is a frustrated Romneybot.
I can’t address your perceived contradictions, as you didn’t mention them.
You did get the jist of the post anyways, with the caveat that I disagree with those on the left who think Palin would be their dream candidate, and I don’t really know that Romney supporters ARE switching to Bachmann, that was your unsupported assertion.
Until you show some evidence that the uptick in Bachmann support comes from Romney supporters, I think it would be strange for people who support a candidate who is actually IN a race to switch to support a different candidate.
I didn’t even use the word “switched”, I used the word “pushed”, again not based on my own observation, but your hypothesis.
Maybe instead of “switched to bachmann”, you meant “support”, or “defend”.
Now, for freepers who supported Romney, I wouldn’t be surprised to see them supporting Bachmann or some other conservative candidate this time. I know there were some who simply adored Romney, but most Freepers were conservatives, and like I did, fell to Romney more as a “best of the remainder”; now they have a much better candidate list to choose from.
I can only authoritatively speak for myself. I didn’t mind supporting Romney in 2008, because his platform was solid, he had executive and financial experience, and money to wage a solid campaign. I was taking a chance that he wasn’t lying, but that’s always true more or less for any candidate.
Since then, not only do we have a better class of candidates, AND an electorate more likely to support a more conservative candidate, but Romney lost me when he defended the ‘RomneyCare’ law AS implemented, and he’s said several things since that just make it worse, like “I can work with Democrats”.
I can tell you that you are wrong, and explain why, but I can’t make you “hear”, or help how you peak between the lines and see spirits and ghosts from the past. I won’t try any more on this thread.