I expect an effective alliance between corporate Republicans and the Democrats to give Romney the nomination. For those Repulicans, well, “It’s his turn.” The Democrats already have their candidate and will reregister as Republicans to flood the Republican primaries and give us Romney as they did for us last time with McCain. In 2008 they understood long before the rest of us did that the kenyan had a lock and the later Republican primaries had large contingents of McCain Democrats voting in them. McCain was the Democrat candidate for the Republican nomination. Romney seems to fill that bill this time around.
I’m not a Romney supporter and I wouldn’t vote for him in the primaries but if he ends up with the nomination I will support him because anyone is better than Obama.
I agree, that’s the most likely scenario.
But Romney is still an awkward and unappealing candidate. Did you see all his bad joking and awkward moves yesterday?
If Palin gets in and runs a superb campaign, I still think she can beat him, but that’s the only hope we have.