What Romney is demonstrating is that our little uninformed Republican primary voters either hope or truly believe that Washington can be tamed with a little tinkering around the edges. These are the older children of those primary voters who chose Nixon over the first Romney in 1968. The second Romney seems more determined than the first one, who was prone to self-described “brainwashing.”
Right to the heart of the matter, and you are exactly correct.
This was not clear to me at first.
Homo Republicanus does not believe that "the system", developed between 1913 and 1965, is doomed. The majority of primary voters believe that, somehow, with a good manager and a few tweaks, that the gravy train can roll on and on and on.
We are not READY for a Palin or a Gingrich.
Things had to get very, very bad for the king to send for Churchill. They aren't that bad, here - not yet.
As Eugene McCarthy aptly observed, it was little more than a light rinse.