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I always enjoy this part. The closer we get to the primary being settled, the more the RNC starts softening the image. They'll appear almost sane and reasonable by May or so.
They know Romney will skate easily to the left on cue and on a dime. Might be a bit unseemly for someone famous for porpoise-like flip flops. So they're laying the foundation for a perception that he's being "tugged" to the middle to appease the baggers.
The establishment pubs and the baggers seem to carry equal weight at the moment. That's a good thing if you live on a seesaw like Romney does. But if some jump off one end going into the general election, won't that mean others will have to abandon the other end to keep it from crashing down on one side or the other? How does he add anyone with shifting rhetoric? The "duh" factor only carries one so far....even with conservatives.
Romney is a balancing act. He walks a tight wire. Newt's trying to toe along the line with him. Obama will pull either of them off easily when the time comes. Then we'll see which half of the pubs stays home on election day and which way the indies go.
For starters: Will Mitt say that revenue in the form of tax hikes has to be on the table with everything else to have a reasonable discussion about addressing deficits? Newt isn't going to ask him that. He doesn't want to answer it, either.
If yes, bye bye bagggers.
If no, bye bye moderates.
Wonder if Newt or Mitt would drag more Pub congressmen down with him on his journey to the center. Establishment Pubs say it's Newt. I'm not convinced. I think Romney is more likely to do maximum damage to non-productive demagogues. He's a businessman, after all, and probably realizes that he'd be a more successful President with a Democratic congress. He'll be looking for a legacy with "progress" in there somewhere and probably doesn't cringe at the prospect of "progressive" being a part of it.
They know Romney will skate easily to the left on cue and on a dime. Might be a bit unseemly for someone famous for porpoise-like flip flops. So they're laying the foundation for a perception that he's being "tugged" to the middle to appease the baggers.
The establishment pubs and the baggers seem to carry equal weight at the moment. That's a good thing if you live on a seesaw like Romney does. But if some jump off one end going into the general election, won't that mean others will have to abandon the other end to keep it from crashing down on one side or the other? How does he add anyone with shifting rhetoric? The "duh" factor only carries one so far....even with conservatives.
Romney is a balancing act. He walks a tight wire. Newt's trying to toe along the line with him. Obama will pull either of them off easily when the time comes. Then we'll see which half of the pubs stays home on election day and which way the indies go.
For starters: Will Mitt say that revenue in the form of tax hikes has to be on the table with everything else to have a reasonable discussion about addressing deficits? Newt isn't going to ask him that. He doesn't want to answer it, either.
If yes, bye bye bagggers.
If no, bye bye moderates.
Wonder if Newt or Mitt would drag more Pub congressmen down with him on his journey to the center. Establishment Pubs say it's Newt. I'm not convinced. I think Romney is more likely to do maximum damage to non-productive demagogues. He's a businessman, after all, and probably realizes that he'd be a more successful President with a Democratic congress. He'll be looking for a legacy with "progress" in there somewhere and probably doesn't cringe at the prospect of "progressive" being a part of it.
