It has been suggested the republican power structure does not trust their primary candidate Mitt Romney to be inflexible enough. To this writer he seems on course concerning the rigid ideology of republicans today. He says whatever is required whether yesterday he said something different. The other candidates had little chance in a field so weak, they dreamed that just maybe their time would come. Sometimes it comes and goes as Rick Perry demonstrated. Big money pushed Romney past the others. But Romney still polls low among a party driven by ideology only. Even they don't know who he is. In a real sense republicans are at their best when in opposition to change and progress, their history of failure to govern demonstrates that fact, but their constant whining, as shown by the tea party caucus and tax pledge followers, demonstrates how narrow focused republicans remain. They simply continue to be against progress for America. They do that one thing better than anything else, that is, they do 'nothing' very well. Credit is due them there. Watch them in Congress today, you could watch any brick wall and see an equivalent spectacle unveil.
"The collapse of the Bush presidency, in other words, is not just due to Bush's incompetence (although his administration has been incompetent beyond belief). Nor is it a response to the president's principled lack of intellectual curiosity and pitbull refusal to admit mistakes (although those character flaws are certainly real enough). And the orgy of bribery and special-interest dispensation in Congress is not the result of Tom DeLay's ruthlessness, as impressive a bully as he was.
This conservative presidency and Congress imploded, not despite their conservatism, but because of it." "Why Conservatives Can't Govern" by Alan Wolfe
