Would the Republicans -- in this angry, anti-Washington, Tea Party age -- really ratify the choice of the party establishment? Will Iowans go to the trouble next Tuesday night of getting in their cars and driving somewhere to cast a vote for a member of the East Coast elite? A Harvard-educated, French-speaking, former governor of -- Massachusetts! -- who appears to have no ideological moorings and has been all over the map on issues, such as abortion and gay rights, which are important to them? A guy who not only governed as a moderate problem-solver, i. e., a Democrat, but who also signed a health care reform bill that became the model for the Affordable Care Act, which Republicans have been raging against for three years now? A fabulously wealthy Wall Street-type who spent most of his career as a partner in a private equity firm? A guy who was practically born into the GOP establishment as the son of a former Fortune 500 CEO, governor, candidate for president and member of Richard Nixon's cabinet?
Oh, and did I forget to mention that Romney is a practicing Mormon? (Who may -- or may not -- wear magic underwear, but it's not a cult.)
This is the guy Republicans are going to nominate in 2012? Really?
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