2016 Postmortem

K Gardner

(14,933 posts) Tue Feb 28, 2012, 01:22 PM Feb 2012

GOP: "Burn This House Down Now"

Chuck Todd on MSNBC right now, talking about what he is hearing about the GOP Primary Candidate Disaster and what Republicans are saying if Santorum manages to win the nomination. He says there is no way even the "GOP establishment" can prevent Santorum from taking the nomination if he actually wins the delegates.

I missed the first part of it and don't have it recorded, but it looks like full-blown GOP panic. Was anyone else watching this?

It's the noon segment on MSNBC.

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GOP: "Burn This House Down Now" (Original Post) K Gardner Feb 2012 OP

The CW seems to be a Romney win could be more problematic to the Party in the longer term. Old and In the Way Feb 2012 #1

Wouldn't work. Republicans would say that *Santorum* wasn't conservative enough Marsala Feb 2012 #2

Old and In the Way

(37,540 posts)

1. The CW seems to be a Romney win could be more problematic to the Party in the longer term.

Reply to K Gardner (Original post)

Tue Feb 28, 2012, 01:33 PM

Feb 2012

If Romney wins the nomination and loses the GE, the base assumes that it proves the Party wasn't extreme enough and the Party goes more right into 2016. A Santorum win in the primary and a landslide loss in the GE will create the justification to drive the Party back to a more moderate center. Hmmm, if this is the logic at work, maybe I do want Mitt to win.

Marsala

(2,090 posts)

2. Wouldn't work. Republicans would say that *Santorum* wasn't conservative enough