Romney tried to kidnap Wonderboy & ended up losing his pants

[CabCurious]

1. The Tea Party never liked Romney, but Ryan's their Wonderboy.
2. Romney's strategy of bashing Obama was losing ground. The GOP increasingly dislike his campaign.
3. Romney's negative attention was escalating.

So he grabbed Wonderboy, held him up as a shield, and thought he had killed multiple birds with one stone.

Wrong.

Instead of gaining leverage and support from the Koch & Friends, this will be more like a short-lived family gathering for a photo filled with smiles. Once the cameras are down, they will return to hating each other. If anything, Romney has validated the centrality of the Koch brother ideology.

The FIRST thing Romney did after picking Ryan was to distance himself from Ryan's policies.

How long before the GOP are openly sniping each other?

[Curtland1015]

1. The topic title looks like a Dylan lyric!

This marks the second election in a row where the VP choice was CLEARLY picked FOR the republican candidate.

[CabCurious]

3. Apparently not, though... which is the funniest part

The gossip indicates that nobody in the campaign supported Ryan as the pick.

Romney is an egotistical executive type.

I honestly doubt Romney caved into a call from a Koch or other funders. There is enough money on the Rove side and within Romney's campaign that I don't Mittard wants to cave in.

So he had to pick Ryan because he believed it gave him the upper hand somehow. That's what has been bothering me this weekend, trying to understand how Romney saw this as a win-win for himself when everybody else saw it as a win for Koch et al.

[Freddie]

2. Don't forget St. Ronnie's 11th Commandment:

Thou shalt not speak ill of another Republican.

I respectfully disagree; the R&R love festival will continue until Nov. 7.

[CabCurious]

4. That Commandment went out the window and permanently broke in 2008

The GOP have not hid their disdain for Romney or his campaign management.

It's going to come bursting out post-convention like last time.

[HereSince1628]

5. If I were writing a novel, I couldn't have created a better scenario/premise

to employ in telling the story of a putsch by Koch and Friends facilitated by their tool Reince Priebus

My guess would be that traditional republicans will soon be driven away. In that respect I hope that Huntsman is the first snowball in what becomes an avalanche away from the ediface of insanity that has become the republican right.

[CabCurious]

6. We saw a huge wave of moderate Republicans openly jumping ship in 2008

I think we can expect even more this time, unless Romney finds a way to REALLY shut the door on the Tea Party.

That's where he loses his pants in the story.

[Javaman]

7. It will be amusing when narcissist mittens loses the lime light to recall.

that won't end well.

much like gramps and failin quitter.

[CabCurious]

8. His VPs's record and clumsy public relations is already pulling them downwards

It's only going to get worse.

Romney and Ryan trying to lead a coherent platform is just sad.