Free us from the South Carolina Five

I didn't watch last night's debate. Stacy McCain live-blogged on-site, The Daley Gator caught Ron Paul in another lie, and Professor Jacobson sums up my impression of the trainwreck that is Mitt Romney's impending nomination.

We are on a path to nominate someone who campaigned against Reagan, campaigned against the Contract with America, campaigned against those who are pro-Life, campaigned against 2d Amendment rights, campaigned against conservatism, and designed and enacted the precursor to Obamacare from which he will not back away.

Meanwhile the only guy who's never actually lost an election on the merits can't get any traction, because ostensible "conservatives" are enamored by Rick Santorum's sweater vests and Newt Gingrich's adverbial allegories.

And way off in Right Field, the Ron Paul sideshow pretty much guarantees Romney will get the nod.

Many of my conservative friends are so busy denouncing Ron Paul and his supporters that they can't be bothered to ask themselves, "Why don't we have that kind of wild-eyed fanaticism among our supporters?"

Yes, what I look for in a candidate is the wild-eyed fanaticism of his supporters. Substitute "bat-shit insanity" for "wild-eyed fanaticism" and you'll understand what I mean. Or just go observe wild-eyed fanaticism in its natural habitat of North Korea. Because if that's what it takes to be a Ron Paul supporter, you can count me out.

Do we want wild-eyed fanatical 9/11 Truthers driving the GOP bus?

Are we ready for a wild-eyed fanatic to burn our banking system to the ground in order to purge it of The International Jewish Conspiracy?

Will you let your kids go play outside when wild-eyed fanatical meth addicts move in next door because Ron Paul legalized drugs?

Can Americans sleep soundly at night knowing that the wild-eyed fanatical Iranians are mass-producing Ron-Paul-approved nuclear bombs?

Ron Paul's popularity does not necessarily imply the soundness of Ron Paul's message.

Ron Paul's cult followers are gathering converts because the remaining GOP presidential field is weak, and fractured. Some of us have perhaps been contributing to the problem by proclaiming "anyone but Mitt Romney."

The electorate has seen "anyone," and is sending us a different message — Romney, because he's not Ron Paul, and you turkeys can't make up your minds about any of those other guys.

You know what? They just might be on to something.

UPDATE 17 Jan 2012 21:06:
Linked by Gator Doug, who observes:

Perry has a record the others cannot touch, yet too many of us are obsessing over a big government guy, in a sweater vest no less, who wants the government in our bedrooms, has issues with "unrestrained individualism" and wants to use the tax code to favor some businesses over others? Good freaking grief!

It's Republican Bizarro-World.

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