[paul51]

the notion that the Tea party which is either a third party or a splinter group of the GOP is going to run a presidential candidate and win a national election is just plain stupid. The same holds true for any other subgroup of the GOP. The only way a national nomination or election is going to be won is with a candidate that can have all these groups coalesce out of a sense of sufficient shared objectives. Romney wasn't totally successful in doing that but who would have done better?

[bramps]

Romney wasn't totally successful in doing that but who would have done better?

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Newt Gingrich, who Mitt and his henchmen knocked out of the election, could’ve done a much better job. We needed someone like Newt who could’ve vividly explained conservatism and draw the electorate to it rather than run from it as Romney and his apologists did.