Quote of the Month: Charles Hurt, Washington Times on Mitt Romney (with Analysis and Opinion)

“Getting Republicans to line up behind Mitt Romney, it turns out, is like trying to stuff a cat into a trash can. No matter how you present the feline to the receptacle, at least one claw always manages to reach out at the last second and cling desperately to the rim.”
This quote came from Mr. Hurt’s column ”Gingrich Is GOP’s Latest Not Romney”, an analysis and opinion piece that take’s the serious matter of a GOP General Election Primary, complete with the angst general “Republican’s” feel about an orderly election, and adds a good dollop of humor.

Charles Hurt presents the mood of the voters a’la Frankenstein’s monster and the rise of the Candidate Gingrich over the front-runner of the Beltway, Mitt Romney. In his arguments for Gingrich, he has a solid point in his closing paragraphs presented in a very pithy and to this mind very accurate manner.

However, it is from a Massachusetts point of view that, although the savior of the Olympic Games and Governor of a Commonwealth with the most liberal, criminal and hostile of governments – Romney, for all his business acumen appeared to use Massachusetts as a springboard to the 2008 general election primary, the Commonwealth’s “fees” rose consistently, and of course, there’s that “mandatory” health care bill, - which has all but bankrupted the state. It is not so much the fact that he changed positions on every imaginable issue, it is not his perfect hair, nor his religion, it is truly the record on which Romney is attempting to run that is problematic – more so because Romney defends and glorifies the same.

Additionally, from this point of view, Gingrich is not the “not-Romney”, he is the guy who from the start of the general was the least appealing, and who through his appearances on varied news programs and especially his debate performances, won the hearts and minds of voters, all of his own accord.

That is the purpose of the primary, to winnow away the proverbial wheat from the chaff – perhaps not as orderly and as perfect as those who live in a perfect word might like, but a system that allows the cream to rise to the top.