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How Tuesday's Primaries Could End It for Romney
John Nichols on February 22, 2012 - 1:19 PM ET
On February 28, 1968, a Republican presidential prospect who just months earlier had led in the polls, announced that he was withdrawing from the competition.
George Romney—the governor of Michigan whom many Republicans had seen as the great hope for renewing the party in the aftermath of the sweeping rebuke the party had received after nominating right-winger Barry Goldwater for the presidency in 1964—had suffered a series of self-inflicted wounds to his candidacy and on that late February day he accepted that he was not going to be the Republican nominee or the president of the United States.
Forty-four years to the day after George Romney quit the national stage, his son, Willard Mitt Romney, could face a similar moment.
On February 28, 2012, when Michigan and Arizona vote in what have become critical GOP primaries, another Romney’s fate will be at stake. Both Michigan and Arizona are battleground states where the former governor of Massachusetts was presumed to have the advantage just weeks ago. But, now, both are states where he is at the very least vulnerable to the surging conservative candidacy of former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum.
More: http://www.thenation.com/blog/166409/how-tuesdays-primaries-could-end-it-romney
On February 28, 1968, a Republican presidential prospect who just months earlier had led in the polls, announced that he was withdrawing from the competition.
George Romney—the governor of Michigan whom many Republicans had seen as the great hope for renewing the party in the aftermath of the sweeping rebuke the party had received after nominating right-winger Barry Goldwater for the presidency in 1964—had suffered a series of self-inflicted wounds to his candidacy and on that late February day he accepted that he was not going to be the Republican nominee or the president of the United States.
Forty-four years to the day after George Romney quit the national stage, his son, Willard Mitt Romney, could face a similar moment.
On February 28, 2012, when Michigan and Arizona vote in what have become critical GOP primaries, another Romney’s fate will be at stake. Both Michigan and Arizona are battleground states where the former governor of Massachusetts was presumed to have the advantage just weeks ago. But, now, both are states where he is at the very least vulnerable to the surging conservative candidacy of former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum.
More: http://www.thenation.com/blog/166409/how-tuesdays-primaries-could-end-it-romney
Seems like the Republican Party is getting ready to go more far right than ever before with Ricky Boy.
