An article in response to the Matt Lewis question: Will the GOP choose passion or principle (Palin or Romney) in 2012? A dumb question, since Sarah Palin has both, but I now turn you over to the article:I go a step further. Sarah will be the nominee, and she will win.No matter what kind of gains Republicans make in the midterm elections next year, it’s going to be tough to unseat President Obama—
That's why the GOP is going to choose Sarah Palin, its heart’s preferred candidate, over Mitt Romney, its head’s favorite. Or as Matt Lewis puts it, “If you’re going to lose anyway, is it better to lose atop the horse you really want to ride?”
Republicans have often ended up with two kinds of choices in efforts to unseat Democratic incumbents, Lewis notes for Politics Daily. There’s the “whose-turn-is-it” nominee: Richard Nixon, Bob Dole, John McCain. Then there’s the sacrificial lamb, a la Barry Goldwater. But “Palin is the only potential candidate on the Republican side with star power,” Lewis explains. “It’s hard to quantify that trait, but Reagan had it.”
And in 2012, the GOP might well bet on finding its next Reagan.
