GOP-e sites like Hot Air really hate Donald Trump. It seems as if GOP-e sites and hacks hate Trump more than Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders. It’s getting so bad for the GOP-e that they are yet again pushing Willard Mitt Romney to run against Donald Trump. Yes, the same Willard Mitt Romney who couldn’t stand up to Candy Crowley or Obama in 2012. Hot Air (or as Rick Perry once called them, Hot Gas) is pimping a poll in New Hampshire with Romney leading Trump 31/15.
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If so, it would have been nice to make that point when Romney was still viable as a potential candidate. Right now, looking at Rubio’s relative weakness in New Hampshire, I’ll bet a lot of establishmentarians who are worried about Trumpmentum would think hard about Romney 3.0 as a last-ditch bid to stop him.
Yup, and realistically, there’s every reason to think that split will persist. If you want to stop Trump in New Hampshire, you need center-right voters there to coalesce behind the strongest candidate from that lane. Right now that appears to be Rubio. The problem is, Rubio’s only a few points better than everyone else: He’s at 11 percent here versus nine for Kasich, eight for Jeb Bush, and four each for Christie and Carly Fiorina. What incentive do any of those people have to quit the race and unite behind a single Trump-killing competitor before New Hampshire votes? Jeb Bush could run well into the spring if he wanted to given the war chest his Super PAC has built. Kasich’s own Super PAC is planning an anti-Trump ad blitz in order to clear some space for other “moderate” Republican candidates. Christie seems convinced that if he just keeps at it, holding townhalls day after day, he can eventually talk himself into a surge inside the state. And given how well Fiorina did at the second GOP debate, she probably believes (not necessarily wrongly) that she’s one more stellar debate performance from being right back in the hunt. The more convinced these people are that their moment in the top tier is coming, the less likely it is that anyone will consolidate the 25-30 percent needed to stop Trump.
I get it with the Trump hate from the GOP-e. He is a threat to beating Jeb Bush or the newest golden boy Marco Rubio. But it’s almost like an obsession with these GOP-e hacks. I mean seriously Willard Mitt Romney?