The newborn Romney campaign shows just how crazy the GOP has become.

[JohnnyRingo]

Now, every time the media mentions Mitt Romney's exploratory commission to enter the race for 2012 they seem obliged to point out that he has an enormous disadvantage against the other candidates. Using republispeak, they describe this horribly debilitating albatross as "Romneycare".

In the nutty world of conservative politics helping to create a successful program to provide affordable health care for Massachusetts citizens is considered an inexcusable sin, leaving Mitt's staffers to find a scapegoat to "blame" this grievous transgression on. Because of the off the scale zealotry in his party, his campaign will actually have to claim in rather certain terms that he wanted to let many people in his own state die without being able to see a doctor but was blocked from doing so by what he'll indubitably refer to as liberals.

That really is his quandary, and I have to wonder how far he'll go in deriding the very constituents who elected him. Will he call his home state, the state he paid big money to govern, "Taxachussetts"? Will he have to say he's fed up with New England values and admit he only wants to represent the interests of red states when he's elected? He can't say he was momentarily insane or sympathetic when he signed the health care bill he now runs from because that would be seen as a weakness.

This "Two Americas" strategy has become the kingpin of a party gone awry, where Republicans are forced to denounce half of the country as being un-american while hoping that just over one half the voters share his vision of a deeply divided nation.

Romney's campaign slogan essentially will be "I'm sorry I did what was best for the people I represented, and I promise I'll never do that as president".

[provis99]

1. Romney's problem is that he is a moderate.

He pretends to be conservative, but I doubt Republican primary voters will buy it.

[Jackpine Radical]

2. What an interesting analytic piece.

[RT Atlanta]

3. you even have all the buzzwords correct

I recall hearing the word "albatross" used at least once (and probably more times) referring to shit romney's dilemma in having done something that could actually benefit the common-folk of his state, not just the well-heeled slick haired aristocrats like himself.

[sharesunited]

4. Fundies and Freepers hate Romney. His exploratory committee needs to explain that to him.

[cbdo2007]

6. haha, there sure are enough who voted for him last time though for him

to win the primaries.

He's the only "serious" candidate for the Repubes that we've seen so far for 2012.

[JohnnyRingo]

7. And he looks good in a suit.

Sadly, the republicans can't find better.
The yardstick with which they measure candidates is so obsolete and irrelevent it's divided into cubits and spans.

[opihimoimoi]

5. Ken Doll Brains...will never sell....

not enuff

[walldude]

8. Romney has 2 problems.

1st is the Republicans are bashing "Obamacare" left and right. Obamacare is basically "Romneycare" so he's fucked there. 2nd is he's Mormon. You think they are going to let a Mormon into their little cabal? Ha!

[JohnnyRingo]

9. Good point

They've only in recent history come to begrudgingly accept a Catholic president, and he wasn't a republican.

Sad statement, isn't it?