Romney has the inside track for 2012 because Republican primary voters in NH, SC, VA, and other early states are so uninformed that all they know to do is support the best known candidate. Hence Dole in 1996 and McPain in 2008. They are fully predictable.
Nonsense. We stopped that trash last year, we’ll stop him again. He’s a laughing stock to the base.
I know. Since 1980, with one exception, the GOP has nominated the runner-up from the last contested primary. Bush in 2000 was the exception, but then again his name was Bush. Also, there wasn’t a clear runner-up in ‘96. If it was anybody, it was Buchanan and he had left the party by 2000.