Gee. Where are all the PJ Media writers and their claque in the Comments bin reassuring us of the inevitability of Mitt now?
I saw a comment on Twitter yesterday, forgot who wrote it, talking about the Republican candidates, something to this effect: “The ‘electable’ candidate isn’t electable, and the ‘conservative’ candidate isn’t conservative.”
I think that’s a good and quite amusing description of Romney and Gingrich.
Stick a fork in Mitt, he’s done. If he can’t win with all that cash and half of Washington on his campaign payroll, plus the endorsement of the RNC and even National Review, to me it literally means he’d be a great Republican candidate, if only there were any actual Republicans who liked him.
No doubt that’s a plus in the eyes of the RNC, who in the past have been known to let their dislike of conservatives show. In years divisible by four, the RNC likes to ask, “Can we not run a Republican and say we did?” They’d really rather run a Democrat, only Joe Lieberman isn’t available and Zell Miller is too conservative. If the RNC issued currency, Arlen Specter would be on the dollar bill. Maybe Larry Craig would be on the $3.
But the RNC appears to harbor no love for Newt, who is just not satisfied to keep Republican snouts in the trough but occasionally does something alarming, like, e.g., disagree with liberals.
Of course, Newt doesn’t mind agreeing with liberals either. I figure he’ll treat conservatives like he’s treated his wives, vow to love and respect us until death do us part, but then fly Air Force One to that shack outside LaGtange and hook up with the sleaziest mascara-dripping liberal he can find. And when caught, explain to you convincingly how your own dirty mind is playing tricks with you.
The greatest debate never staged would be Newt vs. Newt. It would be like watching the Tasmanian Devil chase his own tail. If anyone can talk his way into the White House, it’s Newt. Of course, it’s even money on whether he’ll talk himself out of the White House instead.
But he does the one thing mainstream Republicans can never bring themselves to do: he looks liberals square in the eye and fights. The only times GW Bush ever squared off against someone like that, it was against his own base.
