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Primary Colors Of GOP Frustration

By The Reverend Published: January 23, 2012



When you give it some thought, perhaps Gingrich would be the right candidate at the right time....not for the nation, of course....but for the Republican Party. Perhaps a forty state loss to Obama and the national embarrassment that a Gingrich presidential campaign would soil his party with....would finally be enough to persuade the Party Of reform it's damned self.

One can hope.

However, with 60% disapproval numbers's not likely that Republican primary voters in the other states that are not South Carolina will be so willing to experience the national-party humiliation that a Gingrich presidential candidacy would surely bring to the GOP. Possible? Yes. But not likely.

Even MSNBC's Morning Blow (sic) Scarborough knows what a lot of other non-S. Carolinian Republicans know.....


Not exactly nuanced.

So again...that leaves Mitt Romney.

If Romney is the eventual GOP nominee, he plans on running against President Obama by hammering him on his economic record. But how convincing of an argument can Romney make against Obama's economic record when he says stuff like this....

(Radio show host Laura)INGRAHAM: You’ve also noted that there are signs of improvement on the horizon in the economy. How do you answer the president’s argument that the economy is getting better in a general election campaign if you yourself are saying it’s getting better?

ROMNEY: Well, of course it’s getting better. The economy always gets better after a recession, there is always a recovery. […]

INGRAHAM: Isn’t it a hard argument to make if you’re saying, like, OK, he inherited this recession, he took a bunch of steps to try to turn the economy around, and now, we’re seeing more jobs, but vote against him anyway? Isn’t that a hard argument to make? Is that a stark enough contrast?

ROMNEY: Have you got a better one, Laura? It just happens to be the truth.

Romney is aware of the data which I shared with readers on January 11th. Almost two years worth of consecutive private sector job growth, a bullish stock market, record corporate profits, and returning consumer confidence is all evidence pointing to a recovering economy.

But if Romney's plan is to hit Obama hard on the national economy.....and yet, according to Romney, the economy is "getting better" under Obama's do Mitt and the Republicans expect to make a compelling argument for changing presidents? hard place.

In essence then, conservative, anti-Obama voters have two choices in front of them. Pick a guy who the nation overwhelmingly disapproves of in Newton Gingrich, or pick a guy who thinks that President Obama's stewardship of the nation's economy is producing positive results.

All of this puts flesh to Ann Coulter's bony framing awhile back that if

Baby Huey Chris Christie didn't enter the race, Romney would be the candidate and the GOP will lose to President Obama.

Sadly...and most likely discouraging for conservative Republican the reality that Ann Coulter, like a blind (though hideously skinny) pig, actually stumbled onto an acorn of truth.

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