WSJ Gives Romney Undeserved 'Either/Or' Status, and a Pass for Blowing Off Iowa

(See update below: Establishment GOP Money-Raiser — “Now we know [Romney] … will be our nominee”)

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How nice of the Wall Street Journal to decide months before primary season begins that we're in an either/or situation (/sarc):

With Chris Christie's decision yesterday not to run for President, the Republican nominee is now likely to emerge from the field of nine who are already in the race. At this point that means the contest will probably boil down to Mitt Romney and one, or at most two, of the other contenders who can emerge from Iowa as plausible alternatives and Presidents.

The Journal had to refer to “other contenders who can emerge from Iowa” because it “forgot” to mention that Mitt Romney is blowing off Iowa. He is doing so because the GOP faithful in the Hawkeye State (social conservatives AND Tea Partiers) know that he's a fake, a phony, and a fraud on every social issue that matters — particularly, as shown yesterday, abortion and same-sex marriage — and on basic economic and personal rights, i.e., RomneyCare.

The fact that Romney is blowing off Iowa should be the red-flag indicator that he's unacceptable to sensible, constitution-loving GOP voters everywhere.

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UPDATE: I want to offer up a special thanks to Ms. Georgette Mosbacher, leading GOP bundler (and blunderer). On Tuesday, she told CapitalNewYork.com (HT PJ Tatler) the following —

“A lot of us who normally would have been in this presidential race a long time ago, have been waiting for Christie to make a decision,” said Georgette Mosbacher, a Republican uber-fund-raiser and finance co-chair of the Republican National Committee who was among a group of Republican bundlers hoping to convince Christie to enter the race.

… “Quite frankly, it'll be easier, because now we know who it is who will be our nominee,” she added. “So we will pull our Rolodexes out and get to work.”

(Sidebar: Rolodexes?)

Well, H-E-double-two-sticks, let's just cancel the primary elections and caucuses right now and avoid all the time, trouble, and expense of, you know, having candidates make their case to actual grass-roots voters. Georgette Mosbacher and her crowd “know” who “our” nominee is, and the large (really vast) majority of the rest of GOP voters who oppose Objectively Unfit Mitt, who has never moved meaningfully above 25% in EITHER of his two presidential election runs thus far, don't matter.

Thanks, Georgette, for taking all of the mystery out of the person the Republican establishment is behind (i.e., who the establishment is trying to shove down the throats of the grass roots), so that true economic and social conservatives know beyond any doubt who they must stop.

UPDATE 2: Here's another possible motivation for Georgette hijinks, namely that establishment fave Romney is starting to get blown away by a “HermanCain” —

A Newsmax/InsiderAdvantage poll shows businessman and radio talk host Herman Cain now leading former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney among likely GOP primary voters in the fight for the 2012 Republican nomination.

The exclusive poll, taken in the past 24 hours, shows Cain vaulting Romney 26 percent to 24 percent. The poll has a margin of error of 4.4 percent.