Passing Through . . . .

The Grey  Peregrinator, flying in from a paid trip to Florida, was anxious to give our readers his take on the Florida Primary.  I told him that based on what I have been reading poll projections are usually only good for about 24 hours: let me know what the polls are saying next Monday.

The tenor of the primary is increasingly looking like a replay of past battles between the moderate and conservative wings of the Grand Old Party – remember Barry Goldwater?  Only this time, the new kids on the block – readTea Party came from out of nowhere and have been controlling the Republican caucus and taking no prisoners. The party people are now being outflanked by the old guard which is being lead by John Boehner and Mitch McConnell, who originally embraced the Tea Party.  They reinstated Karl Rove as resident campaign strategy guru.

Stalwart party leaders then selected their candidate for 2012: the pro choice, anti-gun, pro-amnesty, pro-individual-mandate, one-term governor of Massachusetts who has used dubious tax dodges and stashed part of his unimaginably large paper-shuffling profits in offshore bank accounts – the kind that tax dodgers and drug dealers use.  Imagine this, the President of the United States sipping scotch and smoking cigars with members of the Cali Cartel.

It is difficult to imagine that grass roots get-out-the-vote-for-the-anointed-candidate workers will be energized by Romney. (A typical quote about Romney from a local hyper-activist: “I don’t have the time for him. If he were president, we’d have to mobilize for every appointment, every regulation, every agenda item. He thinks of us the way old man Bush did — as them.”)

So, does this make the Newt inevitable?