But who do you imagine stepping forward and getting the nomination if Mitt were ‘dumped’ at the convention?
What true conservative is waiting in the wings? If he exists, why didn’t he get into the race earlier and challenge Romney like Perry, Santorum, Newt, and Paul did?
And please don’t say Jeb Bush.
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You have succinctly illustrated the most difficult hurdle in politics today: the separation of an idea from a person.
When people on FR reject the” WHAT” of an idea, they commonly focus on the “WHO?”
As a consequence, there is NO dialogue between the WHAT and the WHO people.
Pull up any thread on FR and pick out the WHAT and WHO people, and you will commonly find two monologues, but only very rarely a dialogue.
Do we have a dialogue now, or are we still in the two monologue stage?