Posted on 11/03/2011 11:31:27 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A new CNN poll finds that about half of Republicans sympathize with the tea party movement. The other half either remain aloof or (5%) even express hostility.
That second group of Republicans has received remarkably little media attention this cycle. Yet their man -- Mitt Romney -- has held steady in first or second place for the past three years. Meanwhile tea party Republicans have bounced from Sarah Palin to Donald Trump to Michele Bachmann to Rick Perry to (now) Herman Cain, transfixing the media every time they lose faith in one messiah and search for another.
Yet sooner or later, the tea party Republicans must converge on a single choice. When they do, they will present the non-tea party Republicans with a troubling menu of possibilities.
Possibility 1: Romney is nominated, Romney is elected.
From the point of view of non-tea party Republicans, this is the ideal outcome of the 2012 election. Yet it is also an outcome that looks worryingly out of reach. As we enter the final 12 months of the election countdown, Romney still cannot rise above 30% support in his own party. Worse, while it's easy to imagine (say) Herman Cain's voters shifting to Rick Perry or vice versa, it is very hard to imagine where Mitt Romney will find the additional Republican votes he needs.
Possibility 2: Romney is nominated, Romney loses.
For non-tea party Republicans, this second outcome opens all kinds of ugly, ominous possibilities. If candidate Romney loses, tea party Republicans will claim that the GOP lost because it failed to nominate a "true conservative." That claim may fly in the face of political math (how would a more extreme candidate win more votes?), but it will pack a lot of emotional punch....
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Sorry but Mitt is not even a contender. It really is, anybody but him.
Frum is a tool. Take that from a Perry guy. He’s a tool of the establishment and rarely writes anything interesting.
A CNN “poll” interviewing “republicans” again. (They all “served as a SEAL sniper in Iraq, voted for Bush twice, listen to Rush everyday...” Doo Dah, Doo Dah). LOL!!! You know the type.
"...but even *I* want COMMON-SENSE HEALTHCARE REFORM, and sensible, TARGETTED tax-cuts for WORKING FAMILIES, and we need to make THE 1% PAY THEIR FAIR SHARE..."
If the Republicans nominate Romney despite all the evidence that he is about as likable as herpes, they deserve to lose.
Who are these non-Tea-Party Repubics?
The ones presenting we tea party Republicans with a troubling menu of possibilities.
good post... thanks chief
why a more extreme candidate win? Because without the more principal person, who frum called extreme, the conservative will not vote for him
Option 1: Romney gets nominated, and Romney gets elected (which he considers the best option - belch)
Option 2: Romney gets nominated, and Romney loses (which, according to Frum, would lead to an 'ultra-conservative' candidate after the losses of McCain and Romney - I guess his views of 'ultra-conservative' is different, and that he also doesn't realize that RINOs like McCain and Romney are like day-old porridge to voters)
Option 3: A Tea Party Republican is nominated and loses. (According to Frum this is the worst waste. However, he feels it may be worth it because it will break the Tea Party's obsessions with 'fringe characters like Sarah Palin and Herman Cain.' He then goes ahead to insinuate that Tea Party folk are fools with a certain Benjamin Franklin quote - "Experience is a hard teacher, but fools will have no other.")
Option 4: A Tea Party Republican is nominated and wins. (He claims that this is very unlikely, but if it were to happen it would only occur if the economy remained weak, and if Tea Party folk select Rick Perry and not an 'utterly unelectable' person like Cain. He feels Perry would be weaker than Romney, but that among the Tea Party candidates he is the best)
So basically what Frum is saying is that Republicans and Conservatives (there is a difference between the two), or as he says 'non Tea Party Republicans and Tea Party Republicans' should vote for Romney otherwise it is a lost election, and if it is not Romney then it should be Rick Perry. There you have it. Frum's playbook.
A win for Romney would be a disaster for the GOP, it would signal that the GOP has merged with the democrat party.
If there is a single person whose opinion I care less about than David Frum, I can’t imagine who it would be.
Maybe Keith Olbermann or Debbie Wasserman Schultz?
David Frum - another Trotskyite communist RINO.
If that happens then there will be a strong enough 3rd conservative party run and if he is pro-life then it will pull enough votes away from the republicans that they lose.
This thing is really for the republicans to lose and it will only take putting a rino up as a front runner with their base sick of them. GOP wants to keep a strong party and win then for once they should get their collective heads out of the sand and actually look at their voters...give them someone strongly conservative and watch their base explode in excitement like they did for Palin....it was not McCain people went to see or vote for last election...it was the conservative.
I guess we already knew Frum was in the fringe 5% of “Republicans”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frum
Frum
“Frum” can be used in a negative sense for: “hypocritically pious”, “holier-than-thou”, “sanctimonious”; or in a positive sense for: “pious”, “devout”, “God-fearing” and “upright”. A combination is sometimes used to describe someone as “frum and ehrlich”, which captures all the positive attributes of these words and would roughly mean “upright” or “righteous” (tzadik).
It won’t be a signal the stupid party has merged with the evil party....they are different sides of the same coin
A mittens win is simply politics as usual
The GOP drove past disaster long ago...while flicking a cigarette out the window and hitting the gas.
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