Passing the bouquet to Romney.
The problem is that Mittens seems to top out between 25-30% in national polling. That's been a very sticky number for him.
In the past, that would have been enough to win the GOP nomination. It certainly worked for McCain.
But with the GOP primaries now awarding some delegates based on proportionality, Romney will have a hard time if he can't break his ceiling.
The other problem - as I see it - is that Romney has said so many damned things over his career at (mostly) failing to win elections that should he win the election and move back to the center, he's going to look even more ridiculous than now. You can't go from sounding like Lincoln Chaffee to George W. Bush to Dwight Eisenhower without sounding like a fraud.
And there are a lot of GOPsters who are not interested in a fraud. (Especially a fraud who belongs to a "cult".)
The Mustache of Understanding - among other wealthy, boring people - has called for a centrist third party, conveniently forgetting that the Democratic Party pretty much IS a centrist party and Obama IS a centrist president. They seem to think they can inject "sanity", to use Jon Stewart's phrase, into politics through some centrist stalwart who sounds a lot like Presidents in the movies.
Sorry, if Romney gets the nomination, you're going to see a Right wing third party challenge of some sort. The Tea Party will not be IGNORED!
My guess is that it will be a Christianist like Bachmann or Santorum. But I think Santorum is too far up the butt of the GOP establishment to follow this course. And Bachmann, I think we all know, is nuts.
If Palin can find a way to make money as a third party spoiler, she'd be perfect.
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