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Romney cannot defeat Obama. The majority of voters are not going to vote for an investment banker who founded Bain Capital where its main business is to sell and buy in companies and in the process many people lost their jobs but Bain Capital made money in almost every deal regardless of the company they bought going bust or not. I am not talking here about the OWS lunatics, I am talking about the regular folks and not matter how much Romney spins it, or Limbaugh spins it, or any and all on our side spin it, there is no way that Romney is going to survive his Bain Capital record in the general elections. Add to that all other stuff such as his comment on the very poor, paying 15% of taxes on his massive income, his total detachment from the regulars folks, his foreign bank accounts in countries, his wealth, etc... and Obama is going to crush this fool in historical proportions.

We need to choose wisely in these primaries and the wise choice is Gingrich.

You are making the salient point. As we know from 76, 92, 96, 08 - and the establishment resistance to Reagan - the RNC is not intuitive about winning in the general. They think anyone who has found a way to make gobs of money- so often done through connections or inheritance rather than skill- can become a successful political candidate. Mittens is clearly stiff, tone deaf and so unused to criticism that he thinks teddy bear Bret Baier is being too hard on him. Yet all the RNC sees in Mitt is economic success, a physically attractive candidate still married to his first wife, who once won an election in MA, and they think he can sweep the nation. I don’t see it at all. Most people will think he’s had too much handed to him & aren’t about to give him the presidency, too. I believe the MSM thinks
Mitt will be the easiest target they’ve had in a long time.

BTW, Mitt’s “I don’t care about the poor b/c they have a safety net” has been part of his stump speech. He’s said it before. This is just the first time the MSM focused on it. How clueless would a candidate and his advisers have to be to come up with such phrasing. Clinton and Reagan, the two best politicians of our era, both came from nothing to the presidency because they instinctively know better. (I don’t count Obama b/c the media manipulated the presentation of him to the public. He can’t speak well off the TelePrompTer, is not charming and doesn’t appear to connect interpersonally).

I listen to Rush’s shows online after the fact, when there is less
interruption. He readily proves how the MSM monitors his every word. If he were to endorse someone who did not become the nominee, or overtly criticized the eventual nominee, that is all you would hear during the general. AND it would be used as evidence that he is not influential, which of course he does not want.

Rush has often said that conservatism wins every time it’s tried. Mitt has
never been a conservative and Newt went after Paul Ryan - which is his worst sin, in my opinion. It still makes my purist fiscal conservative brother apoplectic. I’d still go for Newt, but if FL is any indication, most women won’t. Santorum has walked the walk in many ways, but he appears to be after the VP slot on the Romney ticket by diluting the vote for Newt & on the theory that he will bring conservatives to Romney. Doubt it.

Seeing all this, Rush, like most of us, is dismayed. He denigrates the RNC/Beltway “wizards of smart” who have brought us to this pass. He thinks the RNC has serious doubts that Obama can be beaten, but also that the RNC does not recognize how dangerous Obama will be in a second term. The RNC thinks Romney has a better chance than Newt to
help them achieve what they really care about - controlling Congress - and, as a secondary matter, a better chance at the longshot goal of beating Obama. Remember, the RNC is still running around like it was in 08 saying that we can’t attack Obama because he’s black, has a cute family and, in their minds, is loved. (At least by those in Georgetown, Manhattan and the Hamptons, whom they want to please.)

Rush, however, sees Obama for what he is. So Rush has two choices:
advise listeners to stay home & give Obama 4 more years to double down on destroying the country, or to hold their noses and vote for whoever the fools in the RNC shove at us. My view is that there won’t be enough of us willing to do the latter. So we’d best get ourselves to tax free states, try to purge the establishment wherever we find them and vote for Tea Party candidates at every other level. I’d still vote for Newt as long as you have the option. We here in Virginia have had that right taken from us. Sic semper tyrannis. How ironic.