Do they really think they can win without social conservatives??
I don’t think they care about winning in November. I think they are just trying to take more control of the GOP at this point, away from social conservatives.
Absolutely they think they can.
They want to run this race entirely without social conservatives.
They believe they can contest the middle and the left with Obama and come up a winner.
Their message to conservatives will be a kick to the curb and if they feel like voting for anyone, then they can choose between ObamNey and Rombama
If that happens it is important to them to prevent Paul from running a 3rd party campaign.
It is CRUCIAL for some other conservative who understands what’s going on to threaten, and then launch if necessary, a 3rd candidacy from the right. The perfect person for that would be Newt Gingrich IF he would. He has the brilliance and the distinctiveness to force the GOP to back down.
Something very much stinks in the Romney/Paul alliance.
Disjointed philospophical ideologies working toward common purpose.... What is that purpose?