I don't think the Romney win was "healthy."
In running for a high office, it is necessary to draw distinctions between yourself and the other candidates, but, as the Wicked Witch of the West said, "These things must be done...delicately." It has to be done in a way that allows the followers of the other candidates to rejoin the party under a common banner. After the battles are over, one has to find a way to live with the vanquished. Romney's Primary wins were anything but "delicate." His tactic was simple: Bury any candidate that challenges in the polls under tons of negative campaign ad buys. Lie if necessary. Accept the aid of Gloria Allred if you must. One by one, he picked them off.
In that process of winning by scorched Earth, he won very little support from the vanquished candidates' supporters. He left too many people who said, "I'll stay home before I vote for the bastard who destroyed my favorite with lies!"
There was a reason Reagan had his "Eleventh Commandment." He understood what I just described. You have to win, but how you win matters just as much. If we learned a "healthy" lesson from the '12 Primaries, it's that we can't let people like Romney dominate the field by destroying everybody else.
I can't agree more.
But that's what we'll get from the GOPe candidate...not Cruz or Paul. Or Palin.
That will come from Jeb Bush or some other scumbag.
Chamber of Commerce and Lobby Inc.
You know, the existing GOP.
We have to settle in on an insurgent, and outsider.