Whose is the election to lose?

A month or so ago I said that President Obama was so vulnerable that the election was the Republican’s to lose – though they might just be stupid enough to nominate such a far right candidate that they would lose it anyway.

Today I would say the election is President Obama’s to lose. Not that he looks any better on his record or in the polls than he did a month or so ago, but the Republicans seem bent on self-destruction and may hand the election to him.

The announcement that a group of influential conservatives have launched a campaign to deny Mitt Romney the nomination because he isn’t conservative enough is the final straw. Apparently the Republicans aren’t willing to consider anyone who isn’t ideologically “pure”, meaning that they are against abortion, don’t believe in either global warming or evolution, and are stuck in the fantasy that cutting taxes will solve all our fiscal problems. It now looks like the Republicans are going to do Obama’s work for him, and destroy any potentially electable nominee (meaning moderate enough to get significant independent votes) before they even reach the general election.

Well, if they are that ideologically rigid, that politically naïve, and that out of touch with reality, I guess I don’t want them in control of the government anyway. Not that I relish another four years of liberal denial and spending either.