http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_mitt_might_not_fit_20111103/The Mitt Might Not Fit
Posted on Nov 3, 2011
By Eugene Robinson
The Republican Party’s inevitable decision to nominate Mitt Romney for president is starting to look evitable after all.
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It was bad enough when Romney’s main challenger was Michele Bachmann, whose views are so extreme that she favored allowing the nation to go into default—thus triggering the possible collapse of the global financial system—rather than raise the debt ceiling. It was bad enough when Rick Perry entered the race and vaulted into the lead, sight unseen. It was bad enough when Republicans, having actually made Perry’s acquaintance, practically offered New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie the nomination, along with a dog and pony, if he’d just say yes.
But the whole Herman Cain infatuation is much worse, from Romney’s point of view. Here’s a man with no experience in public office, no knowledge of international affairs and, from the evidence of his “9-9-9” tax plan, bizarre ideas about how arithmetic works. Yet before allegations of sexual harassment threatened to derail the Cain Train, he was actually leading in many polls.
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The most obvious alternate is a Perry comeback. His poll numbers have nowhere to go but up, and his fundraising prowess—$17 million last quarter—can allow him to be the last “Not Mitt” standing after others go broke and drop out.
His hair is every bit as presidential as Romney’s, although he’s still working on the part about speaking in complete sentences. :D
The other possibility is a leap of faith.
It’s hard to imagine that any of the other candidates can seriously challenge Romney, or that some new contender could enter the race. But
did anyone think the words “Herman Cain” and “front-runner” would ever appear in the same sentence? So far, the conventional wisdom hasn’t been very wise at all.
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