With Governor Mitt Romney, it's not about getting the nomination, it's more about wearing down the GOP electorate to accept that he has the staying power lacking with Senator Rick Santorum and the moderation certainly lacking in Congressman Ron Paul's campaign.
Republican voters want to beat Obama, and so does a majority of Americans in this country, many of whom are moving not just to the right, but right into the Republican caucus. One of the prime movers of this political realignment is the Tea Party, whose intellectual godfather is Congressman Ron Paul.
So what if the Texas Congressman has been "unpersuasive" with other members of Congress throughout his outspoken tenure in the House of Representatives? He pointed out in one of the last New Hampshire debates that his outsider status reflects just how out of touch Congress is with the will of the American voters.
Even if Congressman Paul could not satisfactorily persuade a respectable legislative majority as president, the gridlock that would ensue would ensure a do-nothing Congress that leaves us alone -- and more Americans are taking up the rallying cry of "Don't Tread on Me, Washington D.C."
Mitt Romney is a cool businessman. He demonstrates considerable acumen as a manager and a leader, but his record has been a slow and unconvincing ascent from New England moderation to National conservatism, and understandably many are simply not buying it.
If it takes a brokered convention to secure a nominee, so be it -- but the GOP powers that be better pay attention to the general persuasion of voters who demand some ideological purity, political consistency, and overall respect for constitutional government.
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