What I don’t understand is how the party bigwigs profit from this. Hold onto power? I mean if the Reps get beat in the fall, doesn’t that hurt and cost the party? Or what am I missing. I would figure you would want the best guy for your party and country, not another old insider.
Hattie, i think what Claudia is saying is that the party bigwigs want McCain to win because he is in Congress and plays their game..he’s got some chips to play with and can pay them back..Romney is an outsider, has no chips to hand out, no jobs to promise, no favorite lobbyists he can connect the bigwigs with, no inside track to the inner circles of the party like McCain has—and that means a lot!- and is seen by the bigwigs as just another outsider...Lots of pizzazz and money but no party favors to hand out...also- remember the corporate sponsors who play up to the bigwigs..McCain knows how that game is played too, after 30 years in Washington...
They don’t necessarily want what’s best, except what’s best for them. You see it in every big organization.
Sure they lose seats and some fund-raising power, but unless there is a disaster the loses are marginal. The South’s loss of the civil war was such a disaster for the Democratic Party, as the Great Depression was for the Republicans.
The big problem the Republicans have now is that there are no heirs to the Bush legacy. Cheney is too old to run given his medical history. No Republican national heroes have emerged.
Better to consolidate in opposition, than risk more exposure to the publics’ wrath. :^)