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I agree with a lot of this.  I'm also disappointed in Obama and would have thought seriously about voting for Mitt Romney, moderate Republican Governor of Massachusetts.  Not sure where they stashed that guy, but he's nowhere to be found.  I expect that candidate would have at a minumum given Obama a run for his money, and potentially won the election handily.  (Of course, he's have never made it past the Iowa caucuses, but that's a different discussion.)  This version, Romney 2.0 (or more accurately, Romney 272.0, given how many times he's changed his positions), is not going to get my vote.  The prospect of a Republican president who has not show the intestinal fortitude to stand up to the extreme elements in his own party, combined with an increasingly conservative (and militant) GOP-controlled House, the possibility of a GOP controlled Senate, and the age of many of the Supreme Court justices makes this decision easly (for me, anyway) when you distill it down to those points.  [/quote]

No, unfortunately Romney is caught between a rock and a hard place.  The Republican party has shifted so far right that we moderate Republicans are not considered not just moderate Democrats, but liberals.   Romney's problem is that if he sticks with his moderate conservative message, he will alienate his hard-core Republican base.  And unfortunately, hard-core Republicans will abstain from voting as a general protect rather than vote for a moderate or liberal.  So he has no change to beat Obama with a moderate Republican stance.  He will lose more votes from the Conservative right than he will gain from the moderates and the independents.  Conversely, if it goes too far right, he also has no chance because the moderates and the independents will bail and likely, they will actively vote FOR his opponent, Obama.  So, he is stuck in a conservative stance, flip-flopping his message to appeal to the audience of the moment and hope that he doesn't lose too many votes from both sides over the very wishy-washy message that changes daily.

Basically, the Tea Party is killing the Republican party from the inside.  They are making it so that *NO* republican can win on the national stage, only on the local/state level where there are enough like-minded conservatives to force the candidate through.  However, if the Conservative right does not make some change on the national level, it will likely be a long time before another Republican sees the White House.[/quote]

I think it's even more than just a matter of alienating conservatives today.

The primary process is owned by the wingnuts.  In order to make it through that, he has to publicly commit to any number of crazy ideas.  And then it's all part of his record.  If he sticks with it, he is screwed.  If he tries to move to the middle, it's such a radical change that no one knows what to believe about him anymore.  [/quote]

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