Mitt Romney is unelectable -- but now I like him

Let's face facts, no matter how much money Mitt Romney raises for his campaign, one thing is now clear. HE CAN'T WIN. Because of the ascendancy and power of the hardest-core conservatives right wingnutters, the primary outcomes will be controlled by the Tea Party folk and their less visible (recently) but no less important, super conservative Christians.

Let us not forget that it wasn't the Tea Partyers that got all blissful when John McCain made the #1 mistake of his campaign, which was choosing Sarah Palin as his running mate. The conservative wing, and especially the right-to-life, family matters types, were the ones most excited by this egregious error. It was because (erroneously) they perceived simple Sarah to be "one of them", partly because she had gone ahead and had a Down's syndrome baby, and maybe also because daughter Bristol had an out-of-wedlock one; maybe that wasn't a family issues candidate's finest moment, but in their eyes, having the baby, bastard or not, was better than ending the pregnancy. And Sarah obviously professed Christian values, plus the also erroneous view that the Christian Founding Fathers founded a Christian nation (losing the historical fact that they didn't want either a nation ruled by a king or a nation ruled by a Church), so Sarah was their supreme choice. Her unpreparedness, clothes-horsedness, low level of intellectual acumen, torpedoed McCain but ascended her star amongst the archest conservatives.

Because this Christian bloc is still so vital to the GOP, Romney's Mormonism -- which is, to be blunt, heretical to the conservative Christian wing -- will not fly with them. No matter what, they can't vote for a heretic to lead the nation. They'll either vote for somebody else or not vote at all. But they won't vote for Romney.

And now, Mitt has clearly stated that he is not following the Gospel of Inhofe, with Morano as his prophet, either. That orthodoxy is that global warming is a hoax; it's not happening, and if it is happening in spite of the fact that it isn't, than whatever is happening is entirely and wholly natural and probably caused by the Sun. If it isn't caused by the Sun, then it's caused by clouds or El Nino. (Cue Bob Tisdale to explain this impossibility.) But more importantly, no matter if it's happening or not, It Is Vitally Important That We the People of the United States Do Absolutely Nothing About It. That is truly the orthodoxy; damn the sea level rise, forget the biospheric ecosystem ravaging, and don't worry about the extremes that are on the rise globally -- it is the economy first and foremost (never mind all the economic downsides of global warming, the higher food prices, the higher fuel prices, the trade deficit, the insecurity of relying on the unstable Middle East to be the world's petrol bank, the deleterious effects on human health, the potential oceanic disaster of ocean acidification), and in their little minds, that means burn all the coal and oil we can, disregarding the potential for the occasional multi-billion barrel oil spill.

And the thing is, now Mitt appeals to me, because of this single act of unbelievable political courage to state the truly obvious -- the world is warming up and humans are involved in that. There are a host of other reasons that I couldn't vote for Mitt, but now there's this chance that if he got to the White House, he might have the stones to tell the GOP hardcore hardliners to take a hike on their steadfast positions. And boy would I like to see a GOP President giving hell to Bogus Boehner and McDunce McConnell.

If Barack stumbles and suddenly the door is open for a GOP Presidential winner, then I'd have to hope it's Mitt. But he has no chance. No chance in Hell, because that, of course, is where every good Christian Republican knows he's going.

So, best of luck, Mitt. Use those big bucks to totally screw up the GOP Presidential campaign so that they end up nominating a sure loser. Don't, no matter what, get nominated and then tempt a bunch of actual independents and middle-leaning Republicans. Because then, perish the thought, you could actually win.

Romney reaffirms stance that global warming is real