The elephant in the (bed)room

[Daily Kos]

Daily Kos Wrote:The symbol of a wacko core that wants to impose their wacko views on the country

The Republicans have a problem.

“The senator believes Romney will ultimately win in Michigan but says he will publicly call for the party to find a new candidate if he does not. ‘We’d get killed,’ the senator said if Romney manages to win the nomination after he failed to win the state in which he grew up. ‘He’d be too damaged’ … Santorum? ‘He’d lose 35 states,’ the senator said, predicting the same fate for Newt Gingrich. It would have to be somebody else, the senator said.  Who? ‘Jeb Bush.’”

No, it's not that Rick Santorum might beat Mitt Romney in the primary and get clobbered in the general election, or that Romney might lose Michigan in the primary, get nominated and then get clobbered in the general election (both are plausible but less likely than Romney winning Michigan, then the primary, and then losing in the fall). The Republican problem, which the media has to danc [...]

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