They ought to connect the dots and realize that Mitt started outpolling Obama when he made his frantic sprint to the center in the first debate. Romney said things in that debate that would have gotten him run out of a primary debate on a rail. It wasn't a pivot; it was an about-face.
That's the kind of Republican that wins mainstream America and wins elections. And the Jim DeMint-Ted Cruz approach is completely antithetical to that. The Republican comeback isn't going to be engineered by the Tea Party ideologues in the Senate (DeMint, Rubio, Paul, Cruz). It's going to come from state governors like Susana Martinez or Chris Christie or Bill Haslam.
Or Mitch Daniels (Mike Pence) and Nikki Haley. But the DeMint faction is right on the issues point blank. Try the coming of Tea Party Governors (Pence, Martinez and more to come)
