But today's lead article is titled Why Not Santorum?
. And today's poll question asks, Who is the best alternative to Romney?
and offers a choice between Gingrich and Santorum (Santorum's up 80 to 20) with no third option to stick with Mittens.
There are also several of hard-hitting pieces further down the page: Deroy Murdock's Newt’s Plan, Mitt’s Morass
on the superiority of Newt's tax reform plan, Andrew C. McCarthy's See Mitt Pander
on Mitt's inability to get
conservatism, and Larry Kudlow's Message to Mitt: A rising tide lifts all boats
on the value of supply-side philosophy. Then there's Jonah Goldberg's The Case for Romney: He'll owe us
. Quite the subtitle, Jonah!
Might the GOP-E be wobbly on Romney?
The real eye opener for the NRO crowd was Mittens automatic minimum wage increases. This little diddy perked a lot of ears up and NOT in a good way.
I haven’t read the articles, but I imagine some of Romney’s support has been from people who are social liberals but fiscal conservatives. Even people like me who are opposed to Romney have been a little surprised at how much he’s revealed himself to be a fiscal liberal on different issues lately that haven’t come up before. Of course it should have been obvious from Romneycare, his hundreds of millions in tax/fee hikes in Taxachusetts, his declining to support John Kasich’s anti-union vote, his support for letting taxes be higher on those making over $200K, etc. But Romney’s new comments about the safety net and the minimum wage might even be giving Romney’s fiscal conservative backers pause at this point. The money-worshiping wing of the Republican party just assume anyone wealthy is a fiscal conservative, I guess. But that defies reality, where we know wealthy elites backed Obama heavily and we have wealthy liberal politicians like John Corzine who are very similar to Romney. I suppose these pundits still think they can “hold his feet to the fire” and “drag” Romney to the right. I say a leopard can’t change his spots.
They MIGHT if we keep contacting them and insist that they do....Or give them your two cents if they ask for money in a mailer or call soliciting.