Using the immortal words of Glenn Reynolds, I say “don’t get cocky”.
Today Maggie’s Farm links to the American Thinker on Republican Delusion.
Even most Republicans would admit that Ron Paul (foreign policy dove/nut), Rick Santorum (just google his name and homosexuality) and Herman Cain (the Muslim issue and lack of experience) can’t possibly win a general election, especially against a media darling like Obama. It also seems to be accepted wisdom that Newt Gingrich (his global warming commercial with Nancy Pelosi and his Paul Ryan comments) and Jon Huntsman (worked for and praised Obama) can’t possibly win the nomination.
This of course leaves Romney along with, for now, Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry.
Regardless of what Tea Party activists will tell you, neither Bachmann nor Perry has any chance to defeat Obama unless there is an economic catastrophe or massive scandal between now and the election. This would be the case if both of these candidates didn’t hold policy positions (which they do) that the media will easily be able to use to make them seem far outside the mainstream.This argument can be made almost entirely without even looking at their politics (a factor, by the way, which is becoming increasingly overrated as the electorate becomes more ignorant and frivolous). One need only see how the basic narratives of the general election would take hold with each candidate as the nominee to see that Obama would win, probably easily.
I know the right is sick of looking to “electability”, but I am less sure that’s a good sign.
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