I'm starting to wonder if Romney can survive the stain from Bain that's tearing down his name. I find myself wanting to join in the jubilant schadenfreude party taking place in popular dairies about the breaking news, President Obama's expert framing and Romney's utter failure to find a constructive way to react to these developments. But I'm held back by a nagging worry that it would be better for our side to keep Romney as the President's opponent. Now that the possibility of criminal misconduct in Romney's navigation of the revolving door between public office and private pursuits has come up, we have to begin to worry about what the GOP will do for a candidate at a wide open convention, if Romney does the honorable thing and withdraws.
Follow into the tall grass for more thoughts along these lines.
When the media discover that a crippled and doomed to fail Romney candidacy is better news than their tired old close horse race reporting, the piling on will begin. It may have already begun.
Of course, I don't possess a detailed breakdown of the identities and background of all the thousands of delegates to the upcoming GOP convention. So I can't pretend to have an informed opinion about what might happen if Romney's Bain pain did force him to withdraw. But I can speculate with the best of them.
I think that Ron Paul would stand a chance of being nominated. It just might happen that the Paulista anarchists might turn out to be the best organized group at the GOP convention. But that's a kind of bomb thrower's dream. It would perhaps wreck the GOP, at least temporarily, sort of the way that Goldwater did in 1964.
For our part, I am more worried about the nomination by the GOP of someone who was not a proven, GOP Primary Debates Ass Clown. Here, Mike Huckabee invades my fevered dreams. Onward, Christianist Soldiers, Marching Off To War. Shudder.
Remember how Nixon was never going to surrender the tapes. But then, he finally had to and he knew he was a dead duck. He left town. He quit. And he was already President and one of the biggest certifiable pricks of any of the considerable competition for that recognition among the others who have occupied that august office.
Romney is only a candidate. But, sooner or later, Romney will face the same kind of choice. I worry that he will quit before he will release those tax returns, returning to his first love, money.
Kossacks don't need to be worrying about who Romney will choose for VP. We need to worry about whom the GOP will really nominate, because it might not be Romney.