Diogenes: "The Republican base doesn't want Romney," he said.

Actually, IIRC even though he's leading the pack of potential GOP nominees, Romney has consistently polled about 23-26%... so (and brace yourself here) Rushbo may be right on this one.

/I think that says more about the GOP field than Mittens, though.

Mugato: Is there a reason why anyone listens to anything Limbaugh has to say?

The guy I share my office with listens to him every single day. (With headphones, thank goodness) He figures society as we know it is going to come to an end any day now, and Rush will tell him before any of the liberal media will.

Dusk-You-n-Me: It will be Romney and he will lose.

You know what would help? If some of those 70% of Republicans decided to vote for a third party candidate. That would be cool.

jake_lex: If Romney does get the nomination, this fat pill popping douche will be telling his audience that he's going to be the second coming of Saint Ronnie. He'll fall in line when he must.

Like he supported McCain as the new Reagan?

Listen to Rush! You guys should stand Bachmann! She should run! She could win!

Two outcomes are looking increasing likely here:

1) Mitt Romney gets the nomination and disenfranchised Teatards field a far right candidate, siphoning off 3-5% of the vote
2) Herman Cain somehow gets the nomination and disenfranchised Teatards filed a white candidate, siphoning off 3-5% of the vote

Oh please oh please oh please oh please.

I wouldn't mind Mitt so much. Business guy, reasonable, reforms healthcare...

He'll have to turn the derp up to 11 to get the 'baggers on board, but he's not so bad. Much better than the other loonies.

70% Republicans just don't like the other 30% of Republicans--they just can't agree on who's in that 30%.

Neocons vs. Fundamentalists vs. Neoliberals.

nevirus: I wouldn't mind Mitt so much. Business guy, reasonable, reforms healthcare...

He'll have to turn the derp up to 11 to get the 'baggers on board, but he's not so bad. Much better than the other loonies.

If I had to pick any GOP candidate to win, it would be Romney in a landslide. I'd love watching the evangelicals lose their shiat because a Mormon is president.

Romney will be the candidate because even though the GOP is a giant clown orgy, their major donors are serious people and are demanding a decidedly non-teabaggy candidate.

CanisNoir: Lionel Mandrake: Probably, but it would be WAAAAAY more entertaining if one of the looneys got the nom and Obama destroyed him/her. And we'd have years of nutty conspiracy theories, a whole new crop of Orly Taitz-like morans,

I would like to see Newt debate Obama - Newt would demolish Obama easily. Doesn't mean Newtie would win the presidency but he would debate circles around Obama.

Remember the time Obama went into the lion's den, when he was invited to the great R-tard retreat of 2009? How'd that work out for ya?

Rush Limbaugh is a worthless piece of shiat, but he's right. If you look at the history of the polls for the nomination, there is a hard ceiling of 30 percent for Romney's support. He doesn't go above that limit no matter what happens to the rest of the field.

He'll win anyway. There are too many "Not Romney" options, and none of them can coalesce the support of that other 70 percent. They'll split up their votes and Romney will win.

And once Romney does win the nomination, that entire 70 percent will very enthusiastically come out and vote for him against Obama.

So in 2009 you had all that frothing of the mouth over healthcare reform and the potential dangers of government run healthcare system. Taking to the streets. Shouting down people at townhalls. Mockingly throwing up wadded up dollar bills at Parkinson victims in wheelchairs. Warning people that you came unarmed (this time). Wailiing away that this is the end of the Murica you grew up with. Telling people that there's going to be hell to pay in 2012.

And the result off all this sound and fury is ........ you nominate Mitt Romney? Out of a pool of potential candidates, you pick the Godfather of Obamacare?

Nominating Mitt Romney is the de facto admission by conservatives that there was/is no higher principle to the Tea Party and 2009 than being butthurt that a black man who plays for Team Donkey was elected instead of the white man who plays for Team Elephant.

Who is Rush supporting?

rush doesn't want Romney as he has a chance to win, and his derp isn;t as popular when his party is in the hwite house.

Well 100% of sane, even-keel Republicans who genuinely care about helping the country and bringing honest discourse back to washington don't give a crap about what Limbaugh says. So yea

Angry Drunk Bureaucrat: Actually, IIRC even though he's leading the pack of potential GOP nominees, Romney has consistently polled about 23-26%... so (and brace yourself here) Rushbo may be right on this one.

There's a BIG difference between not wanting a candidate at all and liking a candidate but liking someone else more.

I think Rush means 70% of Republicans by weight.

That's a demographic he has a pretty good handle on.

Dusk-You-n-Me: Hollie Maea: And once Romney does win the nomination, that entire 70 percent will very enthusiastically come out and vote for him against Obama.

Democrats fall in love. Republicans fall in line.

True. But it's been a while since Democrats had to vote for someone as hated as Romney is hated by the right. And no, we didn't hate Kerry, we just thought he was a loser. Which he was.