Romney has no chance to win the GOP nomination for 2012. Its going to be a tea party candidate.
“Romney has no chance to win the GOP nomination for 2012. Its going to be a tea party candidate.”
Georgia Girl 2, I share your hopes but not your confidence. I can see the GOP nomeklatura diluting the primary with multiple faux conservatives, or providing the cash to multiple weak or niche conservatives to run, while promoting only one or two “prudent choice” empty suits.
Vote dilution of conservatives, early blue state and open primaries, and they will have seized the initiative, perhaps irrecoverably. Similar to the disaster in ‘08 but with more engineering to divide and weaken conservatives. The Vichy Republicans would feel very smug and clever with this, and not realize that this time no one would be coming back to help them off the ground again in ‘13.
Their other course is to run a mixed candidate, who makes conservative sounds and holds some conservative views, but at core is a party first kind of guy. They are massaging several right now. They will probably be fiscally conservative, make some token noises about social conservative cause, but remain firm on open borders, globalism and maintaining the core of a large federal bureaucracy.