The narrative is being set. Mitt Romney will be the nominee because all other candidate are faltering, and cannot hold up.
Who is setting this narrative? In addition to the usual suspects, add Politico, as in this post by Alexander Burns:
Conservatives don’t like him. They really don’t like him.
But as Mitt Romney continues to outshine his rivals in every debate and looks more and more like the last man standing in the Republican presidential primary, even longtime critics are slowly — and in some cases, bitterly — coming around to the idea that he may end up as the GOP.
If the 2012 primary was supposed to be a fight between Romney and a single anti-Romney candidate, the anybody-but-Mitt bloc has plainly failed to put up a real fight, at least so far. And with only eight weeks to go before the Iowa caucuses, skeptical elements of the Republican base have begun to worry that they may have missed the opportunity to stop him.
Since when did Romney “outshine his rivals in every debate”? That’s nonsense; by any measure the debates have been the Newt Show, giving Newt a chance to move from has been to rising star.
What about this narrative of no alternative viable candidate pushed by Burns? How convenient, considering how Politico obsessively has gone after Herman Cain. But what about Newt, who now is in a statistical dead heat in most polls with Romney and Cain?
Burns has an answer for that also, in his post yesterday reprinting a negative e-mail being circulated about Newt, Anti-Newt Gingrich chatter begins:
A conservative source forwards an anti-Newt Gingrich email making the rounds this weekend, drawing Republicans’ attention to the former House speaker’s history of off-message and ideologically erratic comments.
The email is a reminder of the challenge Gingrich faces ahead of him, if he really has to go through the same level of vetting as other credible GOP presidential candidates — like Rick Perry and Michele Bachmann did when they were on the upswing in the polls. But it’s also a sign that Gingrich’s rise is being taken seriously by his opponents inside the party.
No one but Mitt, that’s the media narrative for now. But it will not last. Once Romney gets the nomination, Politico obsessively will run articles similar to this (likely unfair and distorted) report in the Chicago Sun-Times, How Romney grew rich by plundering companies:
If Mitt Romney wins the GOP nomination for president, the narrative for his 2012 run is pretty clear. He will tout his credentials as a savvy businessman who knows how to create jobs.
What Romney won’t tell you is that what he really knows how to do is create massive amounts of wealth for himself and his partners.
Jobs are another matter….
“Millions for me, a pink slip for thee,” is the playbook of many private equity firms, and Romney was one of their savviest players.
There is nothing inevitable about Romney’s nomination, other than the fact that the media is building him up in order to tear him down.
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After the Cain smear (anonymous sources with no details), I refuse to go to Politico. I depend on bloggers like yourself to keep me up to date with these Defenders of Democrats Everywhere.
These clowns want to choose our candidate SOOOOO badly! Then, when they get Romney, then can tear him to shreds as the “flip-flopper” and unstable, fat-cat, greedy, RIIICHHHIIIEEE RICH, elitist eeeeeevil RomneyCare RINO Republican.
Gee, can’t see that one coming, Politico! Alinsky 101, people.
The voters will decide and choose the candidate, thank you. And, we are SICK of the MSM and their desire to choose our candidate(s) for us!
One almost – but not quite – feels sorry for Mitt. His enemies doth like him too dearly for thinking conservatives to buy into his support. RINO McCain.2 personified. Kiss of death as far as I’m concerned.
This is exactly why I severed all contacts with Politico a few weeks ago. As far as I am concerned, all they spew is leftist spam…
Yes. Romney is the candidate the Democrats want to run against. He’s the candidate the RNC wants to run.
Welcome to the 2012 version of John McCain, minus Sarah Palin.
In these parts people still have those signs but they cut the top off.
Romney won’t make that mistake. He won’t choose a running mate more popular with conservatives than he is. There won’t be a Romney/Rubio, Romney/Cain or Romney/Anyone further right than Romney ticket.
It’s the ticket you will be facing in 2012. The past will be prologue, minus Sarah Palin.
I hate being right, but I am right.
Start planning your 2012 based on that foreknowledge.