[Mariner]

"If we learned a "healthy" lesson from the '12 Primaries, it's that we can't let people like Romney dominate the field by destroying everybody else. "

I can't agree more.

But that's what we'll get from the GOPe candidate...not Cruz or Paul. Or Palin.

That will come from Jeb Bush or some other scumbag.

Chamber of Commerce and Lobby Inc.

You know, the existing GOP.

We have to settle in on an insurgent, and outsider.

[ansel12]

Paul is embracing the GOPe against the Cruz/Palin/Reagan wing of the party.

He is hoping to either be the nominee, or to cut off the conservative right, or both if he can.

[Cyber Liberty]

Correct, has to come out of the machine to be another Romney, who had been running a low-level campaign since 2008. That meant in 2012 it was “his turn,” so he was always the assumed leader. To win the shot at the big chair, he only had to not lose.

This season is already different because it isn’t anybody’s “turn.” It’s not Jeb’s or Chris’s or Marco’s seat to lose. GOPe doesn’t have a default win this time. That is the one thing that gives me hope going into ‘16.

Nobody is going to get this Nomination without building a Party to do it.