"33 percent believe Mitt Romney should be the party’s new leader..."
That instead of roughly 5% of the GOP staying home, 67% of the GOP would stay home.
Of course it means something...Romney, like McCain from 2000, is the defacto candidate for 2012. Republicans are like that, with the “it’s your turn” mentality...also, because of Palin’s huge national negatives, she’s going to be lumped in with Huckleberry as the “Socon candidate” for now...she’ll have to work at expanding her base in the party to have a shot...magritte
Often derided for being ‘plastic’, Mitt is more a creature of narrow, albeit successful, experience.
I've heard that you can tell a man by his enemies. Oddly, the only ones that express strong dissonance to Mitt, are in the GOP. The GOP can live without Mitt, but not without its conservatives. Without them, it is moderate Democrats, which actually is the GOP.
Do I think that if the 66% of the GOP gets behind Mitt, Mitt can get elected? Yes, but it's not happening. Mitt has rebranded himself too many times.
What it means to me is that we need new choices. If Mittens thinks he's just going to park his butt on a shelf for the next couple of years, waiting for the party to call him to ride in on his white horse, he's sadly mistaken.
Our future leaders will come from the people who are best able to oppose the Obamunism agenda. We need a new "Contract With America" to spell out solid proposals for how we will restore America's greatness. In about a year and a half, the fools who thought that vague promises of "Change and Hope" will solve anything will have their heads sufficiently out of their posteriors to pay attention to it.
That's how we got past Mr. "I feel your pain" sixteen years ago, that's how we'll work our way out of this situation. The American people just need a reminder every so often that flaky slogans accomplish nothing.
Yes, it means 67% don’t want him.