In a lengthy broadside, Jeffrey Lord preemptively blames a Romney defeat in the general on the GOP establishment's refusal to call Obama enough nasty names:
A presidential campaign, to quote Romney, isn't talk radio. One can't attack Barack Obama in this fashion. One can't say the reason this presidency is an utter failure is because of an Alinsky-ite, far left philosophy. Nooooooooo. One must say simply and politely that Obama is, to quote Romney directly, just "over his head." And at Romney's side (aside from all those Washington lobbyists there now) will be mortgaged aides like ex-GOP Minnesota Senator Norm Coleman. In the finest tradition of Establishment wimpiness assuring that Romney really doesn't mean it when he talks about undoing Obamacare. Oh no.
Ed Kilgore calls the piece "an expression of the rage and frustration of the hard-core Right before it 'settles' for Mitt." Noah Millman predicts that a GOP loss won't change the party much:
Regardless of who the GOP lost with this year, I wouldn’t expect a profound soul searching. The Democrats had to lose a run of five out of six Presidential elections over two decades to thoroughly remake their party. If you want to know what will likely follow a Romney loss, take a look at what followed Dole’s loss in 1996.
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