Conservative pundit rips Romney, predicts GOP loss

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Conservative pundit rips Romney, predicts GOP loss

As the Iowa caucuses near, an influential grass-roots conservative says he believes Mitt Romney’s nomination as the GOP general election candidate is inevitable, and that Romney will ultimately lose to President Obama a year from now.

Erick Erickson, the founder of the RedState blog and a CNN contributor, wrote a lengthy blog post Tuesday that was one part indictment, one part lamentation, as it laid bare, yet again, the deep fissure of mistrust that divides Romney from some conservatives. And at times it read as much as a surrender as a call to arms.

“Mitt Romney is going to be the Republican nominee. And his general election campaign will be an utter disaster for conservatives as he takes the GOP down with him and burns up what it means to be a conservative in the process,” Erickson wrote.

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-erickson-romney-20111108,0,2321512.story?obref=obinsite