Bachmann, Perry, Cain all had their turn. Who will be this month's anti-Romney?

[bluestateguy]

Takers? Anyone? Will there be one more anti-Romney flirtation before the inevitable coronation? Or is the establishment now coalescing around their guy?

[AlinPA]

1. I don't think Perry is out of it. His money and his vicious TV ads will put in back in the lead.

[tridim]

2. No way, he was done weeks ago.

The video today sealed it.

Ron Paul is always hanging in there with his 10%, he could be next.

[Cognitive_Resonance]

3. Newt's turn for some attention. His campaign is a hopeless disaster, but they're desperate. nt

[gratuitous]

4. Today was my original "dead"line day for Cain's campaign

He might last until Veterans Day, but I kind of doubt it. Who's next in the barrel as the anti-Romney? I think the Republicans have run through their supply, but there could be a late entry into the race. I caught the weekend news a couple of times, and had to have heard three times at least how the Republicans were still searching for a leader to anoint. Naturally, this being the popular media, they couldn't bring themselves to say that Republicans were in disarray (only Democrats can be in disarray in PopularMediaLand), but the viewer had to get that distinct impression.

I don't think anyone will get a second bite at the apple, but T Rump or Perry might get another shot at being the anti-Romney. Considering what happens when you Google his name, I don't think anyone's anxious to see Rick Santorum move into contention.

[tridim]

8. I bet Sarah would be right up there in the top-tier if she changed her mind.

C'mon Sarah you know you want it.

[gratuitous]

14. Oh, she'd rocket to the top for a minute or two

But I think the time has passed for the financial disclosure requirement, so if she launched a real, live campaign, she'd have to let her adoring fans know just how rich they've made her for all the little she's done. And that certainly wouldn't serve the cause nearest and dearest to Quiterella's heart, so my guess is she'll make some half-hearted noises about jumping into the race just to get a little attention, and then scamper away again.

[JoePhilly]

5. Santorum as flavor of the month? Eeewwwww.

[izquierdista]

6. Who knows?

[spanone]

7. i'm waiting for the media to fall in love with newt all over again....

howie kurtz showed his love last month, but it didn't quite catch on...


The Resurrection of Newt Gingrich

Newt Gingrich summoned his remaining staff to the conference room of his K Street office in June, shortly after much of his team had defected, and delivered an old-fashioned pep talk.

“This is a football season,” he said. “You don’t just kick off the ball and win. Someone’s going to come hit you. We got hit. Get up.”

Gingrich told the team that his challenge over the summer was survival, followed by the chance for a breakout in the fall. And as the Republican presidential contenders prepare for a CNN debate Tuesday night in Las Vegas, he has, at the very least, cleared the first goal.

It would be too much to call it a surge, but the former House speaker has quietly slipped into third place in several recent polls. A Public Policy Polling survey (PDF), for instance, shows Herman Cain with 30 percent, Mitt Romney with 22 percent, and Gingrich with 15 percent, edging out Rick Perry by a percentage point. And Gingrich’s favorable rating is up to 57 percent, with 30 percent holding an unfavorable view—this for a battle-scarred contender who the mainstream press has all but written off as a loser.

http://news.yahoo.com/resurrection-newt-gingrich-050200492.html

[Motown_Johnny]

9. I think Romney is trying to be the anti-Romney

Why else take 2 positions on every issue?

[Enrique]

10. Romney himself n/t

[Raine]

11. Newt Blingrinch would be my guess. nt

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

12. Why is Ron Paul almost never mentioned?

He's a nut, but he's a libertarian psychopath who occasionally makes sense when it comes to trade policy and foreign wars. Ron Paul has actually made some strong showings in the polls but the Republican establishment and the media pretend he doesn't exist. Why is that?

[Douglas Carpenter]

16. he completely breaks from the bipartisan consensus on almost every foreign policy issue

The fundamentalist right cannot rally behind him because of his position on Israel. Furthermore, the neoconservatives are still a strong influence in the GOP. He is much farther from these points of view than Obama and almost every prominent Democrat. Also his position regarding drugs makes him all the more unacceptable. There is no way he will start leading the pact. His position on these issues are simply farther from mainstream Republican thinking than Obama or any prominent Democrat.

[mdmc]

13. ron paul

[Douglas Carpenter]

15. it could be Gingrich - he does hold a lot of poltical IOU's and could start calling in favors

now that all the other non-Romney's have faded...but it's hard to say...anything could happen