PJ Media

Very nice column, and right on the money. What one needs to remember is that for all their bluster, the retards on the “true conservative right” (Limbaugh, Coulter, Hannity, Levin, etc.) represent merely a vocal minority of the Republican Party. Genghis Kahn himself probably wouldn’t be conservative enough to pass their list of “true conservative” litmus tests.

The great majority of Republicans are pragmaitic rather than ideological. They realize that in order to win the White House … if it can even be done after the last 8 years of the Bush administration’s arrogance and incompetence … the party is going to have to win a majority of the independents, who consitute 1/3 of the electorate. John McCain is the only candidate they have who can do that.

This nomination fight is going to boil down to a tug-of-war between the moderate wing of the GOP (McCain) and the hard-core ideologues on the far right (Romney). The irony of it all is that McCain has a lifetime rating of 82 from the American Conservative Union (which hardly qualifies as “liberal”) while Romney certainly can’t be classified as a “bedrock conservative” (although that’s Mitt’s latest attempt to “re-package” himself). If the moderates prevail and McCain is the nominee, the GOP actually has a pretty good shot at holding on to the presidency. But if the Neanderthals win and Romney is the candidate, they’re going down in flames in Nov. It will be the biggest Democratic electoral landslide since Goldwater was crushed by LBJ in 1964.