The increasingly worthless GOP nomination

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The increasingly worthless GOP nomination

Mitt Romney is pandering so desperately to the far-right fringe that he's become all but unelectable in November

posted on February 23, 2012, at 6:05 PM
Robert Shrum


By all accounts, Mitt Romney won what may be the last Republican presidential debate. Little good it will do him if in the process he suffers the loss of the general election.

Romney's performance on Wednesday in Arizona was both adequate and alienating. Spraying out a fusillade of negative research, he oppo-bombed a flummoxed Rick Santorum. Mitt even had the nerve to attack Rick for endorsing Arlen Specter, his pro-abortion-rights GOP Senate colleague from Pennsylvania, for re-election in 2004. Santorum lacked the minimal deftness to respond that Romney himself was in favor of abortion rights back then. The Massachusetts governor who has morphed into a reborn Michigander pressed on: The author of RomneyCare accused Santorum of being responsible for ObamaCare because Specter had voted for it. Santorum was also relentlessly earmarked on stage; the latest incarnation of the non-Romney suddenly looked like the also-ran he has been for most of the campaign. He earned a D+ grade from Game Change author Mark Halperin.

In the Arizona debate, Mitt may have staunched his bleeding in the primaries, but he opened his veins for November.

The debate may have been a game changer in Michigan, letting Romney slip by next Tuesday in a state he should have carried with ease. If so, he will be on his way to a reluctant nomination primarily because no one else can be the nominee.

It will be a negative victory for a mediocre politician. Halperin accorded Romney a middling B- for his debate performance. He was artificial as usual, stiff even while sitting in a chair instead of mechanically gesturing from a podium. He was a snarky know-it-all talking down to his opponents and CNN's John King. At any moment, he looked as if he was about to turn to Santorum and say, "You're fired." It was as if the office of the presidency was a codicil in his trust fund.

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http://theweek.com/bullpen/column/224776/the-increasingly-worthless-gop-nomination

[tularetom]

1. Good article except

Who in the world cares what that weasel Mark Halperin thinks?

[emulatorloo]

2. Halperin is a weasel. This article is by Bob Shrum though.

To me he always has something interesting to say.

[WI_DEM]

3. I don't think that Romney will be a particularly strong GE opponent

He has pandered too much and moved too far to the right. Sure he will begin after he gets the nomination to try and moderate his stands but it will just be more of the same--what does he really stand for? he has been for and against every major issue. Once he begins to move towards the middle he will alienate the right wingers again and they may decide to sit on their hands in the presidential race in November--or vote for him but do little work on his behalf for GOTV efforts.

[HopeHoops]

5. Nobody in the clown car would be.

[Major Hogwash]

4. Nothing from nothing leaves nothing.

And ya gotta have something, if ya want to be with me.

These GOP presidential candidates are "less than zero".
They started off at the bottom, and they keep digging a deeper hole every day.

"I want to end abortions."
"I want to end public education."
"I want to end entitlements."

What are you going to start?
"A war with Iran."

Like Sister Sarah used to say, "thanks, but no thanks."

But then, I don't have that written in the palm of my hand.*


* Sarah thought that was what they meant when they told her to use a palm pilot for her interview.