As I said before about Romney - his one and only true goal was to make sure no one else got the nomination and then LOSE to Obama. The fix is in - playing the game with or without the Racketeers isn’t going to change anything. Rearranging the deck chairs comes to mind...
I decided that Romney and the Republicans didn’t really want to win the election when Harry Reid drooled out his “some guy told me Romney didn’t pay no taxes” crap and there was no observable rebuttal. Somebody at National Review wrote something like “if Harry Reid isn’t the most hated man in America a week from now, the Republicans are failures”, and that’s exactly what (didn’t) happen.
I don’t believe Romney personally wanted to lose but I think the Washington power brokers did. Romney could have overcome it by showing a little fire.
We saw the same thing with Pete Hoekstra in the senate race against Stabenow. He fought to win the primary and then just kind of evaporated and practically handed the seat to Stabenow and she got more votes than Obama did in Michigan.
Now the MI GOP is trying to foist Scott Romney on us to run against Levin. They’ve got to drop this infatuation with the Romney family. Aside from George Romney, they have a pretty mediocre record. Mitt was a one term governor and Ronna was a state senator till she ran for the Levin seat and lost.
Not much point in rearranging the deck chairs on the Titantic.