Here is how we got had.
Early on the conservatives interested put all their chips on Palin. They waited...and they waited and counted on her to run.
Meanwhile Bachmann, Cain, Perry, Santorum all officially entered the race.
The conservatives were still waiting on Palin... waiting...so in order to clear the path for Palin, the conservatives, with a little help from the all too willing establishment helped discredit all the others in the race. Why not, the establishment realized Palin wasn’t going to enter.
The path to winning was right in front of them. Who is stopping it other than Newt? They knew Newt had more baggage to ruin him than all the others. Piece of cake.
So now all that is standing in Romneys way is a flawed guy like Newt.
I myself think Romney stinks, but we got here and there is a reason why we did.
People glued on to Mitt who might have given Huntsman, the real electable fiscal conservative, a longer look if the other half of the electorate didn’t seem hellbent on pushing neurotics and halfwits.
Of course anyone that allows their hurt feelings get in the way of the fate of the nation I can see how non-pandering straight talk might be too much to take. The problem is not with the candidates but with the a Tea Party era in which the priorities of Republican voters can be hard to assess and has directly led to the total farce of an election unfolding before our eyes in Florida.
“The conservatives were still waiting on Palin... waiting...so in order to clear the path for Palin, the conservatives, with a little help from the all too willing establishment helped discredit all the others in the race. Why not, the establishment realized Palin wasn’t going to enter.”
Many freepers really believed Palin would enter the race. I was pretty sure she wouldn’t the day she resigned the governorship but nobody wanted to listen.
If she couldn’t handle the mudslinging in Alaska then how does it make sense she’d want to endure even more of that if she ran for prez?