One word: Romneycare
Some Freepers are going to have to come to grips with the fact that Romney will do whatever it takes to lose the albatrross of Romneycare and that most people (even most Republicans, even most conservativess)will buy it. Look at this quote from yesterday ““America will not endure government-run healthcare, a new and expansive entitlement, an inexplicable and surely vanishing cut in Medicare, and an even greater burden of taxes,” he continued. “Americans said no, because Obama-care is bad for America!” Some anti-Romney Freepers will foam at the mouth at cry foul foul foul but the majority of the GOP electorate will eat it up. He is no patsy. He won’t go away because his critics can (easily) attack him. Unless the right coalesces around a single candidate who relentlessly takes it to Romney in these kind of conservative forums (CPAC, Values Voter Summits, Southern Republican Leadership Conference.)he will continue to build his orginization and will do well in the primaries, better than last time. The anti-Romney sentiment that is rabid on the Free Republic is not prevalent in the greater party or even in the greater conservative movement. We have to remember that if the FR reflected the reality of the GOP electorate we would be in the second year of Duncan Hunter’s first term.