"Mitt Romney: The GOP's Very Best" By Kevin Drum at Mother Jones

[applegrove]

Mitt Romney: The GOP's Very Best

By Kevin Drum at Mother Jones

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2012/09/mitt-romney-gops-very-best?

"SNIP.....................................

I would like to take this chance to remind everyone that earlier this year Mitt Romney was pretty unanimously considered the strongest candidate in the Republican field — by a large margin. He was, without much question, the most electable of the primary bunch and the toughest opponent for Barack Obama. He was disciplined, well-funded, and had a moderate background that appealed to independents. He was, in short, the very best the Republicans had to offer in the year 2012.

This was not a fantasy, either. It was an accurate assessment. Romney was the best they had. The very best.

Let that sink in for a bit.

......................................SNIP"

[Proud Liberal Dem]

1. That is really sad

............when you think about it.

[louis-t]

2. I use that all the time.

"THIS is your best and brightest?"

[applegrove]

3. The GOP has been hollowed out. They have nobody with gravitas. Nobody

who isn't a conman or not a 47% hating sadist or not just nutters wants to run for them.

[greatauntoftriplets]

4. They're really scraping the bottom of the barrel.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. They've carved out the bottom of the barrel and are sifting through the mud

underneath it and they still can't find anybody who isn't some combination of evil, stupid or barking mad.

[russspeakeasy]

6. and under that mud you will find dick cheney and karl rove.

[tularetom]

7. He said so much crap to placate the lunatic fringe that he destroyed any credibility he had

And he doesn't have the cojones to back off and renounce the nutcase wing of his own party.

So he's sort of between a shit and a sweat.

[Cha]

8. I was just going to post

that I read all the lies and vicious insults he flung at PBO during the primaries. He was just a bigger maggot with more money.

He'll be doing the same at the Debates with the president only this time Obama will be there to answer him to his sneering smirking moochocrat face.

[cheezmaka]

9. I like to call it "The Best of the Worst"

[Ebadlun]

10. Lot of Huntsman love in the comments

Huntsman dropped out just before Romney started making his many, many gaffes and making moderates nervous - had Huntsman had the funds for another month he might have started getting traction as Romney increasingly revealed himself to be a liability.

[cr8tvlde]

11. Smart people who read people...politicians...all knew he was a bufoon and a phony.

Not to mention the Queen Bee, herself. Anyone in the people business can spot a fake and a phony pretty quick. IMHO, they dropped away in the order of their intelligence.

Ignorance won. The rest are awaiting 2016.

[Marsala]

12. T-Paw must be the most bitter man alive

Romney stole his position as "sane, generic Republican" and didn't even give him the VP nom.

[Generic Brad]

13. Then that implies Herman Cain is deluded

He claims he would be in the lead now if he had been their nominee.