Mitt Romney Will Win Iowa Caucus, Predicts GOP Insider

The Daily Beast ^ | 11/11/2011 | John Batchelor

[TBBT]

Mitt Romney doesn’t generate enthusiasm from the conservative base, according to one GOP insider, but he’ll still take the upcoming Iowa caucus. The big winner, though, is Fox News.

“It’s gonna be Romney, and the party is miserable,” observed a Republican agent just back from the presidential contest in Iowa. “One day Bachmann, the next day Perry, then another day Cain, now Newt. The flavor of the day will pass. Why do many Fox contributors become candidates? It gets you in the debates and polls. But it doesn’t stick. Iowa is about paying an organization to show up. They are used to it. It’s an entitlement to Iowa. First in the nation means mercenaries, buying up the talent, then bringing the people you paid for to the caucus.”

With about seven weeks to go to the January 3 caucus in Iowa, I enjoyed my conversation with a shrewdly cynical professional who can explain what’s the matter with the Iowa primary, why we see such helter-skelter in the polling that swings from challenger to challenger while the Old Reliable Romney never goes down or up, just hangs onto his unshakeable twenty-something plateau.

“You gotta have money to get the people out,” continued my informant. “It’s a muscle caucus, not a message place. They are used to it. You need money to hire the guys who are well connected to make sure the right people get to the caucus night. It’s not a vote; it’s a paid event. Romney, having waited for the other candidates to blow each other or themselves up, he can buy himself a victory gradually and steadily.

[Antoninus]

Well, in that case, WE'VE got to be out there on election night making sure that the world knows that if Romney is the GOP nominee, we're bolting the party.

I'm serious. We've got to cover facebook, twitter, and other social networks of your choice with this message.

Oh, and another thing. After Iowa, the "not Romneys" need to start dropping out as they are demonstrated to be non-viable.

[TexasFreeper2009]

exactly, the media is as always trying to “make” the news instead of just report it.

they grabbed on to that ONE poll on friday that showed Cain in 3rd even though it wasn't even a poll of just republicans.

A little more than a coincidence is you ask me, since hardly anyone releases poll on a weekend, meaning when the first polls of the day came out showing Cain still leading and Romney collapsing into the mid teens with Gingrich surging into 2nd, they jumped into damage control mode and released a poll of just a few hundred people including independents to counter what they saw as a potential Romney meltdown over the weekend.

[Sprite518]

So a GOP insider hopes

[napscoordinator]

I agree. I believe it will go like this.

Cain
Bachmann
Newt
Romney
Santorum
Paul
Perry
Huntsman

[jmaroneps37]

I believe they believe this. Recently I had a discussion with one.He told me “internal polls say ....” When I pointed out that this had to be coming from Tokyo Rove he denied it but could say where it was coming from because he didn't know.

Lesson the GOP establishment is working DC especially gullible young Congressmen/women into the nonsense about “Willard can't be beaten...”

HERE'S WHAT I SAY TO THAT BULL SHIITE:

The money and support is pouring in for Herman Cain, but we cannot slow down now. Please help him by donating at http://www.hermancain.com/

Also to help join the buzz about Herman go to facebook.com and “like” him. His “likes” have jumped dramatically since the attacks started. Make no mistake Sean Hannity’s BFF Tokyo Rove is watching Herman’s “likes” and so is Romney. THIS is the way to stick it to the GOP establishment! Please tell your family and friends to “like” Herman as well. Then let’s bring out our most powerful tool for helping Herman Cain: PRAYING that God protects him from the people of darkness.