Not this time...

James Taranto:

Our guess is that if Romney is the nominee, the vast majority of Tea Partiers will hold their noses and vote for him, the way the nutroots types who loved Dean did for John Kerry in 2004.

Do you really want to bet on that, Bucky?  Really?

Not that we haven’t noticed the establishment’s efforts to convince us that the fix is in and it’s all over but the shouting...


...or the Gentry Republicans’ attitude toward the conservative base...


Two important tasks lie before us:  Clean out Washington in general, and the Republican Party in particular.  If it turns out that we must do the second before we can accomplish the first, well, so be it.


UPDATE (101011 16:25): Welcome Daily Pundit readers:

If the GOP manages to foist another RINO on the rest of us, who make up the majority of the party (add up the percentages of us voting in the primaries for Cain, Perry, Bachmann, Santorum, and Paul, versus those voting for Romney and Huntsman), and I think you will see the final crackup of the Republican Party as a viable political organization.

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