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It's the old 'divide-and-conquer' strategy. The GOP establishment (with the Democrats cheerleading on the sidelines) are trying to use the premise that Mitt Romney is the 'designated candidate' of the RNC elites and if the TEA party folks want a 'seat at the table' (of GOP power) they had best not oppose him. Classic case of the tail trying to wag the dog. the TEA party has enormous power to change the face of the Republican party. The Republican elites know it, and they are frightened. If the GOP hierarchy is effectively overthrown by the TEA party and a genuine conservative presidential candidate (Palin, Bachmann) is nominated and elected, there go all the cushy government sinecures, lobbyist slots and lucrative consultant fees for the hitherto well-connected Republican insiders such as Karl Rove. How much access or influence would a Charles Krauthammer or George Will have with the TEA party people who would begin to populate positions of power? This is what worries the GOP elites. The viability of the Romney candidacy is the line in the sand, as it were. To use another metaphor, The RNC hierarchy is going to live or die on that hill - and so is the TEA party. If we buy into the meme that Romneys nomination is somehow inevitable and if we want to stay connected to the big boys in D.C. then we TEA party people had better get on board, then it's over and we're back to 'business as usual' in Washington - and the steady demise of our great nation.

Because we do have a mutual interest in seeing Obama gone from office, they use the scare tactic that 'we can't afford' not to nominate good old, safe, 'moderate' Mitt Romney. That a solid conservative such as Sarah Palin (my choice), Michelle Bachmann or Herman Cain is too unique, making such a candidate supposedly 'unelectable'. The Big Scare continues: nominating anyone but a nice, safe 'moderate' (Romney) will 'guarantee' another four years of the Kenyan Marxist in the White House. Yada, yada, yada. I don't buy it for a moment. Nice, safe 'moderate' Republicans lose to liberal Democrats like Obama. Too much is at stake, now. This election is it. The TEA party will live or die by the 2012 presidential election. It will either be subsumed by the GOP hierarchy and metaphorically emasculated or it will overthrow the Washington D.C. Republican elite's machine and nominate a true conservative, forever changing the dynamic of party politics in the GOP. It's up to us. Mitt Romney cannot be the 2012 Republican presidential nominee and if he is, I, along with many other conservatives, will not vote for him. The elites need to realize that nominating Romney is a losing proposition for the Republican party, not the other way around. Nominate a real conservative and we'll open our wallets and crawl over broken glass to vote for that candidate. Nominate Romney, wallets snap shut and we vote for 'anybody but Romney' - and effectively withdraw from the Republican party. I don't want to see that happen and I hope the RNC elites get the message, soon.