No, that’s not what I meant either.
My thought was that no matter what, the elites will get their way and Romney will be in ‘til the end. Here’s what I’ve read about the candidates..... Bachmann is broke and will be out soon, Newt won’t last because of baggage, Cain isn’t organized enough and is nearly broke, Paul is too out-in-left-field and Santorum is broke, boring and a bully. That leaves Perry and Romney. According to those folks in the focus group if it comes down to those two they would unanimously vote for Romney over Perry.
Maybe what I should have said is that the unrelenting push for Perry will be a win for Romney.
At any rate, the thought of Perry trying to debate Obama gives me hives. As lousy as the big 0 is without his tele-p, Perry still couldn’t out-debate him.
Hmmm - Cain raised $2 million in the two weeks after the third quarter closed and the donations don't seem to be slowing. He is rapidly expanding his organization. He has a new mega-PAC supporting him. By the way, Newt is $1 million in debt.
Cain won’t be broke long with the press he’s getting. Everyone loves a winner, too, and the perception that he’s riding high will bring in the bucks.
I think Perry and Obama debating would be comedic.
Mitt Perry is the choice of the elites but you can’t always buy an election and the people are engaged. The Republican primary will decide who is the next president, and the elites are scared witless that they won’t get their choice nominated. Romney can’t break 25%, Perry doesn’t seem to be dropping to below about 8%, Cain is fading already from his 30% high, and Paul is a lock on about 10%. With all the rest of the dwarves, if they stick, and there aren’t real changes during the early primaries, it could mean a convention decision—depending on where the votes are concentrated in by-district delegate situations, of course.
But it’s WAAAY early and anything can happen, which is what slays me about these Perry-Romney discussions. We haven’t even had one binding primary—nobody needs to get out until there is a groundswell at that stage. But I have said before that if there is a clear winner that is a constitutional conservative, the rest should step aside and stop challenging them in the primaries so as to conserve funds for the general. Obama is going to unleash a storm of ads the likes of which we’ve never seen, lies and obfuscations to the point (he hopes) where independents will not trust anyone.
What I’m surprised by is that the farthest left Democrats, having spent so much time pumping the anti-war angle and anti-Wall-Street noise, aren’t encouraging party hopping to the GOP primary to have the Cindy Sheehan types push Paul into the nomination. This seems to me to mean that Paul ISN’T too far left for this election, that even his nomination scares them, because they were doing that with Romney and Paul against McCain last time out. They honestly fear the guy’s potential in the general or they’d be using him as a foil against the Fed, Wall Street, and overseas war already.