The “rush” is part of Mitt Romney’s strategy, so far as I’ve been able to determine.
If ANY SITUATION AT ALL gives him a chance to prove he really is not a conservative, but is a secret liberal, then he grabs it.
The most recent example is Chick-fil-A and the Boy Scout ruling happening at roughly the same time. Mitt saw fit to publicly distance himself from chicken and publicly reiterate his support for a gay-friendly Boy Scouts of America.
If the rebellion doesn’t hold him accountable, then there will currently be no one in America trying to keep Mitt’s feet to the conservative fire.
And here the CINO movement is busy attacking a 97.5% lifetime ACU senatorial candidate because of a single poorly expressed comment. The whole point, supposedly by the CINOs, is to GET such conservative senators in the Senate...especially the Senate.
But Gay Boy Scouts is the bomb-diggity with Romney. No firestorm of controversy there with these people.
I say “hypocrite” to the whole lot of them.
No, it's real conservatives who are trying to talk sense to the guy, and the reason for it is that he's delusional, and certain to make the situation only worse instead of better. And... if he's left on the ticket there's going to be a small problem with the scoreboard.