Gore abandoned the social conservative principles that got him elected Senator in TN and seeing how it got him nowhere for President in 1988 (when Perry supported him). So he moved left for Democrat liberalism - a requirement to be a (D) on the national stage. Remember Gore was once pro-life too.

Heck, I remember Tipper Gore being at the forefront of the music censorship debate.

THAT's why he lost his homestate in 2000.

Just as we'd get killed if Santorum got the nomination.

Geez, to quote Paul Ryan "with friends like this who needs the left"

So I guess this person is an "anyone but Santorum, Paul or Gingrich" supporter if there is no Romney, interesting.

The Senator is dead right. By any standard, this race should have been wrapped up by now, but the reason it hasn't been is that Romney can do many things, but the one thing that he needs to, which is galvanize people to vote for him.

I know, details, details.....

As for the both of you, snap out of it!

Romney isn't going to enter the White House in Jan, 2013. He'll lose, he'll lose in a blow out.

The exact campaign that the GOP ran against Kerry will be revisited, but this time in reverse.

I can't believe that so many here have proven themselves so eager as to fall down before a man with so little honesty.

So this Senator is saying if a candidate can't win a state for superficial and arbitrary reasons, he's unsuitable as a nominee?

Standards like that make me wish Romney were judged based on his religious beliefs.

Lets be honest. The election will come down to the economy. If we have another 9 months of positive jobs #s by November, Obama will beat anyone the GOP puts up.

Reagan himself wouldn't beat Obama in that situation. Reagan beat Carter because Carter was a total failure on every level, the economy was in recession and in awful shape, because of out of control inflation, and because of the Iran Hostage crisis. I know some like to think it was because Reagan was some great conservative leader/ That was part of it, no doubt.

But the # of unemployed rose by 2 million the year before the 1980 election and the unemployment rate went from 5.9 to 7.5. If the # of unemployed declined by 2 million instead and the unemployment rate dropped from 5.9 to 4.3 instead of rising to 7.5 does anyone think Reagan still would have won?

Does anyone think he'd have won if the Desert One mission had succeeded and Carter had brought home all the hostages?

So, neither Romney nor Santorum will beat Obama if the economy continues to improve. If it gets worse, either of could could beat him. If it gets much worse, either of them will beat him. And if there's some natl security event like a major terror attack or Iran testing a nuke either of them will likely beat him as well.

So, this election really isn't about the GOP candidate. It's about Obama and the economy. It always been about that. The GOP candidate is really irrelevant in the bigger picture.

Now, I do think the GOP nominee could matter in terms of down ticket.

So much depends on the identity of the senator. Snowe? DeMint? A world apart....

It's obviously Jim DeMint, all the other "prominent" senators are either so moderate they know their opinions would be laughed at, are too new to have such arrogance, or are in leadership positions that avoid destabilizing comments

Well based on the list of Republican senators who haven't endorsed yet, there aren't a lot who you'd say are prominent and would be likely to get themselves involved in this mess.

Probably the only two would either be Jim DeMint or Tom Coburn. Or maybe one of the Alabama senators.

I really can't see Mitch McConnell or Marco Rubio wanting to stir things up enough to publicly come out for Jeb Bush.

Anyone else on this list who's "prominent", hasn't endorsed yet, and would have enough clout to publicly push the idea of getting Jeb Bush or someone else into the race?

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