“I think the reason that Mitt Romney people don’t like him and why he hasn’t caught fire is if you hear what he says today it’s likely to change tomorrow. I think there’s great skepticism. He’s a political gymnast of the highest order. He will say virtually anything to get elected to any office. Just last night he was in New York on a Mike Huckabee show disavowing climate change and the Environmental Protection Agency despite the fact that just a few years ago he was bragging in Massachusetts about all the steps they were taking to combat climate change. The one thing that is certain in this Republican primary: If you don’t like where Mitt Romney is today, just wait until tomorrow.”
Bold charges...and entirely true. Every time Mitt's record comes up as Governor of Massachusetts, he has to backtrack, dissemble, obfuscate, or completely disavow his position then. It's not been lost on the GOP rank and file, either. In poll after poll the Anyone But Mitt coalition is steady at around 3 out of 4 Republican primary voters. Mitt can't break out above 30%.
So no, I don't see Mitt as inevitable at all. I still believe there's going to be a brokered convention.
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