Someone once described insanity as trying the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result
By that standard, the Republican establishment is insane.
What are they doing?
They are trying to impose Mitt Romney, a liberal, as the nominee of the Republican Party.
Let’s look back over the last forty years and see how well nominating liberals has done.
In 1972, Richard Nixon ran for reelection. He was a confirmed anti-communist and had taken a hard line on the Vietnam War. He crushed George McGovern.
By 1974, Nixon was gone due to Watergate and liberal Gerald Ford was the Republican President. While the after effects of Watergate did not help, under liberal Gerald Ford, the Democrats were able to get super majorities in Congress.
In 1976, liberal Gerald Ford, running for election, since he had come to the Presidency through succession, lost to Jimmy Carter.
In 1980, Ronald Reagan ran as a conservative. He beat Jimmy Carter. After four years of Reagan conservatism, Reagan crushed Walter Mondale.
In 1988, running as the conservative successor to Reagan, George H.W. Bush destroyed Michael Dukakis.
By 1992, we found out George H.W. Bush was a liberal Republican, not a conservative, and he lost to Bill Clinton.
In 1996, the “tax collector for the welfare state,” Bob Dole, a Republican liberal lost badly to Bill Clinton.
In 2000, George W. Bush ran as a conservative, with a qualification. He was a “compassionate” conservative. Bush barely won in 2000 and despite the national outpouring of emotion after 9/11, the moderate Bush barely beat John Kerry for reelection.
In 2008, John McCain, another Republican liberal was destroyed by Barack Obama.
For the last forty years, every time the GOP runs a liberal, we lose. We win when we run conservatives.
Now the same Republican establishment geniuses that have managed to screw up every election since Reagan want to do it again by imposing liberal Mitt Romney on us.
The question is, will the Party of Reagan go back to its roots, or will it continue the insanity and nominate another liberal.
The choice us up to us.