Commentary By Ron Beasley
Update: Here is the entire Will column: Mitt Romney, the pretzel candidate.
I'ts even more damning than the snippet below.
It is CW that Mitt Romney is the choice of the Republican establishment. As opposed to the clown show that is the rest of the Republican candidates he is the only one who might actually beat Obama. Now there is no one who is more Republican establishment than George Will so I was surprised to see he had a Romney hit piece:
Romney, supposedly the Republican most electable next November, is a recidivist reviser of his principles who is not only becoming less electable, he might damage GOP chances of capturing the Senate: Republican successes down the ticket will depend on the energies of the tea party and other conservatives, who will be deflated by a nominee whose blurry profile in caution communicates only calculated trimming. Republicans may have found their Michael Dukakis, a technocratic Massachusetts governor who takes his bearings from �data� ... Has conservatism come so far, surmounting so many obstacles, to settle, at a moment of economic crisis, for THIS?
Now of course everything he says is true but why is he saying it? Is it because the Republican establishment willing to let thy Tea Party their way in 2012 and get soundly beaten. This might give the Republican establishment a chance to get their party back.
"no one who is more Republican establishment than George Will"
ReplyDeleteThere is also no one who is a more complete idiot, either, and his idiocy has nothing whatever to do with his Republicanism, it has to do with his IQ being somewhere around room temperature.
As opposed to the clown show that is the rest of the Republican candidates he is the only one who might actually beat Obama.
ReplyDeleteI actually doubt that. The Republicans went with the least objectionable candidate last time around and found that doing so was causing such a lack of enthusiasm in their base that they had to add the "Quitta From Wasilla" to the ticket to keep things close. Romney is so patently false, a "perfectly lubricated weathervane" as Huntsman put it, that I can't see Obama having any difficulty trouncing him. Romney's survival is mostly about the weakness of the rest of the Republican field rather than any real electability prospects.
IMHO, someone like Perry still poses the greater threat to Obama if he can recover from his early stumbles. Unlike Romney, he can motivate the base to turn out, and you know that regardless who wins the Republican nomination, the media will immediately treat them as being totally serious and not really as nuts as a sober reading of their positions and statements make them look. The enthusiam gap that sees the Tea Party base turn out in droves while the "professional left" sits on their hands to teach the Democrats the lesson that they would prefer to see a Republican in charge rather than a Democrat who doesn't bow to their every whim may just be enough to topple Obama.