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Opening Arguments

The final four

If none of these guys can even win a majority of Republicans, they sure can't win a majority of the country:

 

If we could just take a little bit from each of them."

I've lost track of how many people I have heard say some version of this in the last couple of months. The "each of them" refers to the final four combatants for the Republican nomination.

You could take Newt Gingrich's verbal dexterity, encyclopedic grasp of politics and techno-optimism. Add in Rick Santorum's authenticity and religious conviction. Combine that with the essence of Ron Paul's principled passion for liberty and limited government. Stir vigorously and then pour into the handsome, squeaky-clean vessel of Mitt Romney (while keeping his business acumen and analytical skill). And voila, you'd have the perfect candidate.

Of course, you could just as easily have aFrankenstein's monsterwith Gingrich's verbal pomposity, Santorum's resentful and dour sanctimony, Paul's conspiratorial nuttiness and the full suite of Romney's Stepford Republican qualities. It calls to mind Homer Simpson's scheme to forcibly mate his pets in a burlap sack so as to create "a miracle hybrid, with the loyalty of a cat and the cleanliness of a dog."

The continuing discontent is resulting in an intesifying of the calls for somebody else and speculation about a brokered convention.

There are growing calls for an alternative to Mitt Romney as the Republican standard-bearer, with the names of Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie again being seen as the most likely saviors.

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Indiana GOP Chairman Eric Holcomb, one of Gov. Daniels’ closest advisers, revealed to POLITICO that “the whispers have become shouts, the knocks on [Daniels’] door have become fist pounding.”

Please, please, please, please, PLEASE run!! This has gone waaaay beyond fervently courting a reluctant suitor into an unseemly wallowing in desperation flop sweat. The "experts" say it's too late in the game for the nominee to be anybodybut Romney or Santorum; the odds on a brokered convention are so high it's not worth talking about. But they've been wrong about almost everything this election cycle, so maybe they are about that, too.

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