A Good Ole Boys’ Family Feud
As Romney sinks, Republicans turn on each other, and the ‘Southern strategy’ implodes at last.
BY Theo Anderson
The knives are coming out and conservatives are turning on each another as President Obama establishes a lead of several points in the polls.
In Politico this week, the television host Joe Scarborough warned fellow conservatives that “we should be willing to face the fact that Mitt Romney is likely to lose—and should, given that he’s neither a true conservative nor a courageous moderate. He’s just an ambitious man.”
At National Review, Andy McCarthy wrote recently that there “is a big conservative base out there—bigger than the third of the country we’ve lost. But they’re left to scratch their heads and say, ‘I’m supporting this guy … why?’”
On her radio show, Laura Ingraham said that if the Romney campaign can’t beat Obama in this “gimme election,” the GOP should shut itself down. “Start new, with new people,” she said. “Election after election, we hire people who have lost previous campaigns … and they keep getting re-hired.” ................(more)
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