[Elsie]

Romney was at one time the conservative alternate of choice to McCain here btw.

He WAS?

DAng!

I must have been on vacation when that happened.

[muawiyah]

The Romney was never considered any sort of Conservative alternate EXCEPT by people who think like the ones who imagine The Chris-Christie as a Conservative alternate.

The cold hard facts are we have a couple of splinter groups in the Republican party ~ the GOP-e, and the "I sell books to Republicans" ~ who have access to a handful of billionaires, and they peddle their poisonous spiel to them, and next thing you know we have a bunch of people who should know better campaigning for out and out Liberals.

We already had 17 million Evangelicals who didn't vote in the last Presidential election. We'll have another 20 milion who won't vote in this one. The Republican party will look very much like the Dixiecrat coalition in terms of electoral strength.