Thursday, November 08, 2007

Romney Says GOP Wouldn't Pick The Former Romney To Lead The Party In November

We were amused by this: after Pat Robertson endorsed Rudy Giuliani--on national security grounds--Mitt Romney groused that: "I don't think the Republican Party will choose a pro-choice, pro-gay civil union candidate to lead our party."

In other words, the GOP wouldn't pick what Romney was before he decided to run for the nomination. We suppose that if Giuliani does win, Romney will have to chew himself out for the failure to realize that Republicans just might be a bit more flexible than he supposed when he re-made himself into a social conservative.

What we are seeing is the inevitable fractionation of the "Christian right" in the Republican party, what with Robertson endorsing Giuliani, Brownback endorsing McCain, Bob Jones XXV endorsing Romney and the current Christian right leadership of Dobson et al. not being able to endorse or get behind anyone. It turns out there are other issues, after all.

We think there may be a third-party candidate for the hard right, but we're not sure the threat is all that serious. Depends on who they find to run.

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