Lord, these people are foolish. Poll on National Review's website asks if its readers are fine settling for Romney - aside from being forced to satisfy some arbitrary and specious ideological purity test, how does nominating the only legitimate [which doesn't mean perfect] candidate in the race amount to settling? When the country in general seems to be utterly fed up with partisan nonsense the bases of each party carry on as if none of that matters - these people are delusional, there's no other way to describe it. Problem for conservatives is that Obama's partisan hackery seems more method than madness - regardless what he may actually believe, he knows that the more liberalism he intimates the more idiot like the right gets and the easier it is for him to play the moderate - in short, the uber right is so stupid that Obama can end up looking relatively moderate in comparison by sounding more liberal.
Look at Gingrich to see how this plays out - Newt is now faulting Romney for being a successful businessman - you have one supposed conservative criticizing another for practicing capitalism! Newt, that's what democrats are for! - we're the one's who actually admire a business ethos. And yet Gingrich just a few short weeks ago was the uber right's shining hero - even though anyone with a brain and a reasonable familiarity with objectivity knew this is exactly why all his colleagues from the nineties expressed alarm at him leading the polls - he's a self aggrandizing narcissist unable it seems to abide the notion that not every thought he has ever had has been brilliant - absurd gyrations like this are where unstable blowhards like Gingrich always end up - as anybody not driven into dementia by the lurking evil of Romney's moderateness well understood. And so, if Romney is the nominee and Obama criticizes him exactly along the lines Gingrich now has, Obama will seem the moderate attacking the capitalist extreme embodied by Romney, no?
A demand for ideological purity is in fact the expression of a fear that the tawdriness of one's beliefs is ever under threat of being revealed.
