Mitt Romney, a safe choice for risky times (the reassuring center)

Washington Post ^ | September 19, 2011 | Michael Gerson

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Center of what?

[magritte]

Nazi-state ... lol. Yeah, that Texas sure is the next coming of the Reich....

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[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

McCain did it for me. I am done doing it. Either it is a decent candidate or I simply will pass.

[CharlesMartelsGhost]

Keep this image in mind from now to the Republican Primary. Mittens and his buddies, Teddy and the demorat gang, celebrating Mitten's signing of Romneycare.

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

There are two possible reasons for Bachmann to be helping Romney. 1.) She probably realizes she needs him for any possible way to defeat Perry at the Iowa caucus and the Iowa caucus is her last stand.

If she helps Romney get the nomination, there is probably something in it for her. Romney is paying off Pawlenty's debt. Romney needs Bachmann as much as Bachmann needs Romney. They both are sellouts.

[Ingtar]

Center of Perry and Obama. Now, if we only had someone on the Right to support...

[ArrogantBustard]

No amount of drugs or alcohol will induce me to vote for Romney.

[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

That tells me that if they can’t have BO they would like to someone who tries to play both sides of the fence.

Liberals admire Mitt for his supple spine.

[Little Ray]

Mitt Romney: pretending to be a Republican.

[dools0007world]

Mitt Romney—and Perry—safe votes for demrats.

[Buckeye McFrog]

It’s the Democrats’ Plan C.

If Obama cannot get re-elected, and if neither Hillary nor anyone else wants to take him on for Plan B, manipulate the GOP into nominating Romney. Then have Obama spend is remaining time in office pushing us as far and as fast to the left as possible, confident in the knowledge that Mitt will do little if anything to reverse it.

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[luvie]

Last time we went “safe” we lost to a moron. Not THIS time!

[tlb]

>>> There are two possible reasons for Bachmann to be helping Romney...

Other then each has a common need to knock Perry down to have a shot at the nomination I am not seeing the coordination you imply. In any event I referenced the supporters on their own fading away from Bachmann and towards Romney. If she told them to do this I haven’t heard of it.

As illustrated by the Bachmann supporter exodus Romney as the great bogeyman doesn’t seem to exist outside a narrow and probably not particularly vital slice of the tea party. As best I can see it for those who get most hysterical over Romney, they only have the Perry option. Anything else they do is a vote for Romney, either directly or indirectly. Not that this has generally sunk in yet.

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

Bachmann attacks Perry—not Romney. It is clear she would rather harm Perry.

[MNJohnnie]

Note to Washington Post, you are NOT the center. The Tea Party is the center. You people at the Post are way over on the Left.

[RobbyS]

Romney is Bush-lite, and I mean George H.W. Bush, the New England patrician who keeps an apartment in Houston so he can avoid paying state income tax. Bush went pro-life to get the VP slot, but I doubt he meant it. That’s why his wife, daughter-in-law, and grandchildren are out there proclaiming that they are pro-choice, pro-gay, and whatever else the upper crust is for, and hinting broadly that their menfolk are just pretending to go along with the yahoos in the Pro-life movement. But our family is on the right side in the cultural wars.

[RobbyS]

Perry takes votes away from her. Romney does not.

[OB1kNOb]

Obamacare / Romneycare -- both yucking it up for screwing over their constituents.