Simple enough -- but wrong. Romney's no stronger on this front than Perry, the frontrunner in the polls. The core reasons: Perry's support among the party's base, and his strength on the key issues of the economy and job creation.........[big snip]............Perhaps in a normal year, the more moderate candidate would be the more electable one. But in these times, the GOP needs bold colors, not pale pastels, to win. "
The GOP needs a real conservative rallying point, someone who will stand in contrast to the social, moral, educational, political, and economic rot.
That standard bearer will have simultaneously to engage rotten teachers' and government-employee unions, rotten gay-PAC and child-molester NGO's, abortion-pushers, crony capitalists, outright neo-Stalinist Communists infesting the Dim party, and Yacht Club poseurs who think everything is okey-dokey as long as they still have enough money and income to keep themselves high above the water level and well out of the rain.
Political consultants have been successful in talking conservatives out of being conservative in their campaigns. They use the polling results to tell them they must chase the mushy middle. That has never worked but they still keep trying to peddle that idea. When conservatives run as conservatives they win.
Look at talk radio. Almost all the successful programs are conservative. What better poll does one need?