But I believe you are overstating the case. The millions of Republicans and independents are not as ideologically driven as we are, most of them do not even know what has us so agitated. They are not political junkies and in their millions they do not read Free Republic, as influential as this forum is beyond its numbers.
They will look at Romney and see a telegenic personality who makes few gaffes and will do well enough in the debates and decide that he is a viable alternative to Obama whom they are eager to get rid of if they can safely do so. They will vote for him because he is "Presidential."
Today's employment numbers, confirmed by Rasmussen's polling on unemployment, about to be echoed Friday by the larger employment numbers for April, following on the heels of the downward revision of GDP, coupled with high gas prices at the pump, all spell defeat for the incumbent.
I think in retrospect you will see this moment as the turning point in the polls and all of those yellow states on the electoral college map will go to light blue and even the light blue states such as Pennsylvania and Wisconsin will turn yellow.
The Grand Old Party is not dead and finished yet. The spirit of 2010 is not dead either and neither are the reforms of 2010. We see evidence of this right now in Indiana and Utah, so Romney cannot do otherwise than take note and conform his electioneering and, hopefully, his governing accordingly. We are as a movement not imploding, we are indignant and rightly so, but conservatism will ultimately prevail against the elitists of the Republican Party.
In the meantime, it is well to understand that this country is hurtling toward a cliff, or, to change the metaphor, it is standing on the railroad tracks in the path of an onrushing debt crisis. We simply don't have five more years to ignore it and survive as a viable republican democracy. The numbers showing a shrinking GDP, a shrinking job market, shrinking small business climate, all tell us that the collision cannot be long avoided. We simply do not have five more years.
This is not the time to walk into the polling booth muttering: "I'll show you, I'll kill me."
