As I posted in an earlier thread:
GOP Begins “Romney 2012” Campaign (with a little help from glad-to-help Liberals; take a read)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2455215/posts
The full-court press is already on, and the establishment is going to do everything in their power to promote Mitt Romney.
They also know they can succeed through the usual formula of delegate count “tweaking” and primary “tweaking,” and by promoting 1%-ers to bleed votes from a Palin-type candidate.
You watch, even here at FR, we'll have people casting suicide votes with the full knowledge that Romney might win their primary by 1% because of it. (”Mitt Romney 38.0002%, Sarah Palin 38.0001%, Allen West 0.0002%. Thanks to the winner-take-all nature of the primary, Mitt Romney gets all 62 delegates......”)
Then there’ll be results like this:
1.) Mitt Romney 36%
2.) Sarah Palin 34%
3.) Haley Barbour 9%
4.) Jim DeMint 7%
5.) Mitch Daniels 5%
6.) Tim Pawlenty 4%
7.) Newt Gingrich 4%
8.) Duncan Hunter (write-in) 1%
You mark my words: as sure as I am posting here, it will happen. Just like it did with McCain, it will happen again. You watch.
Hey, you are on to something with those totals. The American people just know how to rubberstamp the man on top.
“They also know they can succeed through the usual formula of ... and by promoting 1%-ers to bleed votes from a Palin-type candidate.”
And who are “they”? You sound like a populist.
People can vote any way they want in the primaries. If they make bad choices it’s weak to blame wall street and the “establishment” when things go wrong. I agree with you though that the next primary is starting to look a lot like the last one.