My take away line from the article and from the Florida primary in general.
Great article and my sentiments exactly.
And he won't in November, either. It's rather depressing to see that, in a nation of 305,000,000+, a better contender than these two squabbling clowns couldn't be drafted to run against Obama.
Nominating Romney is like an NFL team promising not to throw the ball downfield or in any other way attempt victory, in exchange for the opponent granting them a "graceful and respectable" defeat.
Establishment Republicans embrace minority status. It absolves them of responsibility, yet allows them to retain the perks of status.
They can piss off, IMO.
Let’s face it. George W. Bush was just another big-tent liberal Republican like Dole, McCain, and Romney.
He just happened to get elected twice because the alternatives were worse.
Notice that “Obama is worse” is the only argument that the Romney supporters have. It’s the only argument that Romney himself has.
Can he buy a lot of votes?
Willy-Boy, Willy-Boy.
Can he buy a lot of votes?
Charming Willy.
He can buy a lot of votes,
In a twinkling of his eye.
But he’s cool shark,
And cannot leave his PAC Men.
I felt as sick to my stomach when I heard this news today as I did when I heard 0 bummer won in 2008.
It’s important to note some details about Florida.
First of all, remember that it is an East Coast state downstate, and a red state in the northern panhandle. And this bodes ill for Romney, because Gingrich was a hands down winner in the panhandle.
The East Coast part of Florida has a lot of winter residents from more northern East Coast states, who are uniformly liberal. Think of the politics of Republicans in those states, so liberal that New York has a separate Conservative party.
So the bottom line is that Romney is going to get the blue states, Gingrich will get the red states, and hopefully neither will have enough delegates going into the convention to get the nomination on the first ballot.
Unfortunately, Romney is the least objectionable candidate — the default candidate. Gingrich is a failed Speaker of the House, voted out by his own party; Santorum is a failed Senator, who could not win his state’s election; and Paul has a whacko foreign policy.
This.
It won’t matter that Romney won’t attract enough of The Cocktail Party’s beloved “centrists” and “independents” to get him elected, Tea Partiers will still get the blame.
What the !#!?* is he talking about?
I’m surprised jackass Tyrell let this guy write..
Interesting.
Good piece.