The American Spectator : The Spectacle Blog : Cain Pizza vs. Romney Wrap

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I liked Jim Antle's critique and his follow up to Ross Douthat's assertion that Mitt Romney has the GOP nomination "wrapped up." By that logic, we might as well else dispense with the primaries and hail Romney the new king. Except it doesn't work like that.

As I argued here a week ago, not a single ballot has been cast in the Republican primaries and Romney hasn't earned the GOP nomination. Voters have a funny way of deciding what is and isn't inevitable.

I'm not saying Romney can't win. I don't discount the resources he has at his disposal for a moment. Yet while he might have a good product strategy, the product itself hasn't left a good taste in the mouths of Republican primary voters. Whatever Herman Cain's shortcomings, what he has to offer is looking more and more palatable. It could very well be that Republican voters are more comfortable with what they see on slice of Cain pizza than what's hidden in a Romney wrap.

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Cam O. Milety| 10.24.11 @ 9:31PM

I have a hard time seeing how Cain can survive, partly because 999 isn't ready for prime time, partly because he keeps putting his foot in his mouth and then walking things back ineptly, and partly because he doesn't have the feet on the ground in key states. He's got a lot of weaknesses to overcome.

Don't discount Newt though.

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PattyMor| 10.25.11 @ 8:51AM

I'm not Obama is not a strategy. Just why would anyone want the father of Romneycare as their choice in the Republican primary? That's before his pandering/flipfloping on abortion. Slick packaging, nice hair, and a lot money still does not make Romeny anything remotely conservative.

bluecollarbytes| 10.25.11 @ 8:54AM

Trying to imagine ahead, Cain needs to expand 999 to include what he'll do prior to its passage. Frankly I think its passage would coincide with hell freezing over. The DC Borg would stand against it- including both party animals (ass and elephant), special self-interest groups and the lobbyist 'industry'.

So unless Cain, my favorite, can expand his rhetoric, it may be Newt who becomes the anti-Romney of choice. Newt/Cain doesn't sound that bad compared to a Romney/whoever.

Romney is hitting the wall of voter-discontent that wants nothing to do with appeasing the Left and its precious goals, no matter how much Romney says we should.