Posted on 11/11/2011 8:55:49 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
After Rick Perry's abysmal debate and Herman Cain's transparently false sexual harassment defense, it's more clear than ever that Romney's the one.
Six weeks ago, I wrote that in the GOP race for the presidential nomination, Mitt Romney's the one — mostly because the other candidates have proved to be implausible or utterly inconceivable. And after Wednesday's Michigan debate, we now know with even more certainty who the Republican nominee will be. His name is not Rick Perry, whose potential comeback imploded in an excruciating, alternately comical and pathetic 50 seconds that left an indelible impression of someone out of his depth — and all but out of the race.
A few million people watched the debate; perhaps 50 million had seen the excruciating 50 seconds by the next day. Perry, who initially led the race when he entered as the true conservative alternative to Romney, has biffed, farbled, and gaffed his way into the now inescapable status of an also-ran. It's over. When Perry was on that stage in Michigan, I was in a room with top Republican pros. One of them read a tweet out loud: "Campaign office furniture in Austin, Texas, now available on Craigslist."
Debates matter; they are often decisive, a truth Perry ignored as he decided to announce, but didn't prepare himself to run — and a truth Romney learned the hard way in his losing 1994 Senate campaign against Ted Kennedy. Perry's decline and fall has been so startling — and Tim Pawlenty's so swift when he refused in a New Hampshire forum to repeat to Romney's face a criticism he'd peddled on television just the day before — that there's a gathering consensus that debates are more critical this year than ever before....
(Excerpt) Read more at theweek.com ...
Shrum is a drunk. He might be a dry drunk now.
They have picked Romney to be the new McCain or the new Dole. He will lose and he will lose happily.
Actually he is the only NON adult in the room. Even Huntsman shows more real leadership then Romney
Romney is a empty suit-—and I don’t know who is pulling his strings....probably Soros.
He doesn’t use one of those female things mentioned in another thread to get drunk by does he?
“transparently false”
what a peckerwood
Romney should be very concerned about being praised by a guy who has lost more presidential elections than Harold Stassen.
Dems will never attack Mitt or Paul.
ROTFL.
He might, whenever he’s in Phoenix...LOL.
I think Romney is the only adult crook in the room. I would say that Herman Cain is the only capable adult in that room.
I just listened to Romney on the Hannity radio show. I could paper my entire house with the lies he told. Read
“Can Mitt Romney Serve Two Masters?” by Tricia Erickson. That will tell you all you’ll ever want to know about Mitt Romney.
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