The Romney campaign has calculated that the GOP base is finally at the point where they will

[Douglas Carpenter]

accept a fair amount of triangulation. The base is finally recognizing the reality that they are headed toward a crushing landslide defeat and triangulating toward the center is their only hope of beating Obama. Romney simply cannot possibly win as the hardliner continually attacking even Perry, Gingrich and Santorum from the right. Everyone else has known that for a long time. The GOP base has only now just figured it out and is finally letting Romney run as a nationally electable Massachusetts moderate. It took coming to the brink of a national landslide defeat to finally wake them up. For us that means that suddenly during the last five weeks of the campaign that we have to run against a candidate representing themselves as the 2002 Massachusetts moderate instead of the hardliner who attacked Perry, Gingrich and Santorum as being too liberal. It will be a bit challenging to keep reminding the usually less than fully informed independent swing voter that the Romney they are seeing now is not the Romney who has been running for President for the last five years.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

1. Sorry, too late.

[Fumesucker]

2. And when Romney is defeated they will *KNOW* that it was because he wasn't conservative enough...

Conservatism can never fail, it can only be failed.

[Douglas Carpenter]

4. oh absolutely, no doubt about that, but in the mean time they will hold their tongues

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quietly admitting only to themselves and no one else that triangulating is a necessary evil if they want to win. Once they lose the line will change again and they will believe it

[msanthrope]

5. OMFG--that's the Repuke psychosis, in a nutshell. Brilliant. nt

[sendero]

3. I think...

.. you are absolutely correct.

One now wonders how gullible a swing voter can possibly be to swallow Romney's 11th hour conversion to screaming moderate.