What should have been a victory procession through the pre-election states with lots of press and ever growing esteem for the winner is starting to become a disaster for the republicans. The usual transformation of the republican candidate from conservative to moderate is now reversed: Romney, but first has to move now a lot more in the conservative direction, becoming a man with slippery principles and less and less attractive for independent voters.
The republicans prove to be a strange combination of extreme groups. There is the big group of admirers of the Tea Party that want a policy like the government of Greece is performing now: huge cuts in government spending without extra taxing the rich. A part of the Tea Party feels happy with Ron Paul, he has all kind of interesting plans like abolishing the Fed (at least they have to be audited in a normal way) and decimating defence spending abroad and he doesn’t want to do anything at the plans of Iran.
The last things make Paul unelectable. Another extreme group are the born again Christians that want a theocrat as president. Santorum is their candidate, since they have seen that Gingrich is too much of a wild animal and that Santorum can quite effectively attack Romney, but. Cafferty of CNN, see his blog (caffertyfile), cannot understand what the republicans see in a wacko like Santorum and why Romney,but has not yet exposed this well enough. Santorum lost as incumbent senator of Pennsylvania his re-election with 18 points, after continuing to live in Virginia and having for free some education of his children in Virginia with money from Pennsylvania. Especially his feudal points of view about women are shocking. Why should women work when they are married, anti-conception is dangerous for women, it makes them inferior etc. Homosexuality is worse than incest, liberals are the reason for the problems of the catholic.
The female voters are not idiots, they almost didn’t vote for Santorum. Still Santorum could win because men didn’t want to vote on Romney,but (men voted twice as often then women on Santorum). Gingrich hast Romney,but with success exposed as a Massachusetts Moderate (and he should have wanted to add mor(m)on to it), being a weakling in conservative values.
The real man doesn’t vote on Romney,but and women already voted with a big majority on Obama (he also has a problem with male voters). That is why Santorum at the moment is doing better than Romney, but in the polls against Obama. This probably will not last long because of his ridiculous views about women and when the voters know this well enough, they flare him off like they did with Gingrich, Paul, Cain, Bachmann, Perry. Gingrich hopes now he will be the real come back kid again between all these political weaklings of the republicans.
You have now the curious situation that Obama with his approval rate of clearly below 50% can easily win of any republican according to the betting agencies (see charts of Bianco). The battle for the presidency seems to go between Romney, but against Obama, but.
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