Being bizarre is, at this point, a requirement for making it to the top tier in the GOP
... Mitt Romney's utterly vacuous campaign is turning the nation's Republican governors into blathering idiots. I don't know what I'd say in their place, but that's sort of the point, What can you say? If you offer some advice like maybe Romney could release his tax returns and put this controversy to bed, you're forced to walk it back the next day. If you say that Romney should spell out his economic plans, you ignore that his economic plans poll so badly that the Democrats have decided that no one will believe them if they talk about them. If you suggest that Romney humanize himself by talking more about his personal life, you ignore that Romney is basically a straight-laced Clark Griswold who does weird things like strap a dog crate to the roof of his station wagon before he sets off on a lengthy vacation. If you tell him to defend his work at Bain Capital, you aren't taking account of the fact that he's had twenty years to try to do that as a candidate and has never succeeded. And
you know in your heart that releasing his tax returns won't make the issue go away, but will destroy his candidacy in its crib....
http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2012/7/15/11458/1661
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Being bizarre is, at this point, a requirement for making it to the top tier in the GOP. You have to have the same extreme economic views as the Koch brothersand you have to have at least some obsessive fixation on supposed Antichrists (people who have premarital sex in Santorums case, evil liberals who oppose child labor in Gingrichs). Its the Republican Party, stupid. Thats the problem.
So Romney may loseand the takeaway will be that he was a lousy presidential candidate, an unappealing guy with an unappealing life story. But the GOP is now built to elevate people like that. The Republican rank-and-file loves what the rest of us hate.
Its more than a Romney problemits a Republican problem.
http://eliasisquith.com/2012/07/19/our-grand-old-problem/
http://nomoremister.blogspot.com/2012/07/if-this-ends-as-expected-we-still-wont.html