Friday, September 30, 2011

Romney strains credulity.

Bottom story of the day.
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6 comments:

Tecumseh said...

How's that? It's almost all verbatim quotes, or youtube moments if you prefer. Is that a no-no for you?

9/30/2011 9:28 PM
Mr roT said...

...In fact, speaking to Romney's strength as a candidate, why don't you explain to me why it is that each flavor of the month that the GOP puts up has this surge of support?

Do you think it might just be that everyone hates the frontrunner? Who has been the heir-apparent since McCain cleaned his clock?

9/30/2011 9:40 PM
Tecumseh said...

It's human nature. We all want (and hope) for someone better. Ever since Mac imploded in the fall of 2008 (as I correctly predicted, despite your repeated assurances that he will be a great candidate), Romney has represented the default value as GOP candidate in 2012. Not necessarily the best candidate (far from it -- unlike you when you settle for some random politico, I never extolled his virtues), but someone to get back to, if everything else fails.

So I think this is what's happening. First, it was Palin who held the promise, but never could make up her mind. Then Trump (!) Then Bachmann. Then Perry. Now Cain, sort of. It's still possible that one of them will prove to be better at it than Mitt. We'll see that, pretty soon, at the polls.

But I think it's good to at least have a fall-back position, and a candidate who, even if far from perfect, is someone hopefully solid enough to win. Which, unlike you with Mac, I'm not 100% sure (not even 80% sure), and I cannot guarantee. Though, if Rubio were to be selected as VP candidate, I'd feel much more confident.

9/30/2011 9:52 PM
Mr roT said...

Tecs, human nature has been going on for longer than this round of primaries and it has not happened in my memory that the front runner gets his ass handed to him over and over again by surging late-entries.

Think about Bachmann a bit... One would have to be pretty desperate to prefer her over Hillary, much less over any other GOPer, but a lot of GOPers preferred her to Romney until she went off her meds.

The reason for this is not something immutable like human nature, but is about Romney being a poor candidate, and probably even a lousy person.

As to Rubio seting him straight, Rubio can't tell Romney what to do if he's the goddam VP and he's too churchboyish to call Romney a turncoat if he ditches principles (hahha, has Romney ever had principles?) once he's in office.

10/01/2011 4:23 AM
Tecumseh said...

OK, I'll basically grant you all that, if it makes you happy -- I'm a nice guy, don't want to argue just for the sake of arguing. But even then, what do you want? The standard default value for the GOP nomination is still Romney. You can't beat somebody with nobody. When you find someone better, wake me up, willya?

10/01/2011 10:13 AM
Mr roT said...

Sure, we've got nothing. The election will be Obama vs Obama.

10/01/2011 10:26 AM

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