Salon: Mitt and the White Horse Prophecy (MUST READ - parallels to Dominionism)

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18. I agree except

with throwing the teabaggers and religious right under the bus, I don't think they'll go along with that this go around, after 40 years of being courted (from Nixon to Shrub) and then summarily dismissed.

It is true they all have a vicious hatred for the current President and that the whole religious turmoil is manufactured by the $$$ed RW PTB, but you have these factors:

1.) There is no "leader" of the party at the moment (i.e., a Raygun to unify them)
2.) The RW media propagandists built them up so that you can see the result as they pummel folks like Coulter, Beck, Drudge, etc., who essentially did the bidding of creating this monster, but who are being forced to tow the line now.
3.) The sane wing of the party would vote for Romney but they are not enough to offset this 10% of the looney tunes who make up the self-described "base".
4.) The Ron Paul factor will pull another 10% with a mix of Libertarians and fiscal teabaggers (unless the Libertarian party itself pulls Bob Barr back out again and installs him as the nominated Libertarian candidate as they did in 2008).

So Romney may try to make a run at it and about the only thing that might salvage him is the VP slot - Or so it seems. But if that VP slot isn't someone like a Palin (basically representative of the teabaggers, the religious right, etc), then he's toast. And if there WERE a teabagger-picked VP, then the ticket is still toast because they'll lose the independents.