This has been the fear for republicans all along. Most people have known all along that out of a field of deeply flawed candidates, Romney is the guy who will be the Standard Bearer in November, like it or not and most of us fall into the "not" category. I like Romney as a person, but I can't stand him as a politician. I'll grudgingly vote for him, but I'd much rather vote for a pile of dog poop over Øbomba.

Newt and Rick (and Ron to a lesser extent) will continue to savage Romney in the coming weeks before at least one of them drops out. Who knows how much of Romney will be left in a couple of months, but we'll have to find some way to rally around him or we'll be totally screwed in November and for the next four years.

This assumes most people aren't capable of thinking. There's plenty of time to shift the focus where it belongs - Obama's miserable record.

Romney isn't helping himself as he should be able to easily explain the difference between Bain (capitalism) and Obama (government leeches sucking blood from the taxpayers).

Admittedly, the tactic to label Romney as a vulture capitalist was a head scratcher for us conservatives that do understand the beneficial role of venture capital.However. This is the rough and tumble of the nomination process.

Once the smoke clears and our nominee selected all will focus on the target rich environment that is Barrack Hussein Obama. Mmm, mmm, mmm!

The arguement about Bain was thouroughly shattered yesterday by Ann Coulter. She advocates for Romney, but that aside, she expose the lies of the anti Bain campaign. Gingrich slams down Juan Williams, his numbers rise, and suddenly his ex is parraded in the media with reports of his lack of moral character, Cain redux. Gingrich has backed off of his anti capitalist comments. Santorum gains ground, will we see another paid lying bimbo crawl from the Chicago Cesspool and Axlerods building to make some unsubstatiated charges? The liberal campaign, void of any semblance of truth, with no record of success to run on, will be one of lies, deception, character assasination, and lawlessnes. Our eventual nominee must be able to take the heat and ward off the filth the left will be slinging.

Great article, but did Charles Krauthammer actually write, "The president is a very smart man"?

I'm sorry, but a guy who cannot string together enough words to form a coherent sentence that was not written by someone else and displayed in front of him on a tele-prompter is not smart.

He has steadfastly avoided releasing his educational records, and there is every reason to believe everything he says about them is false.

Smart? He's a sock puppet who repeats the words of others. He's smart like my niece's parrot is smart.

I thought the same think Army Officer - the first thing the Republican nominee should do is plaster their educational record all over the place and dare Obama not to post his. The only 'smart' thing Obama has done is listen to his handlers, who are arguably very shrewd.

Gone are the days where political opponents *respectfully* disagreed with each other on key issues. Now it's all about the "gotcha moment" and completely discrediting and destroying your opposition.

I've found this whole GOP nomination process to be extraordinarily divisive and counterproductive.

Whoever survives the process will not be stronger for having undergone such scrutiny...they will be weakened beyond resurrection.

Imagine the DNC's delight....regardless of who the nominee is, there is a negative ad (produced and paid-for by Republicans) already available for use.

Disclosure: my favored candidate just left the race (Perry). I'll have to **SETTLE** for one of the remaining contestants.

I will vote for one of them in the general election because Romney (RINO), Gingrich (Egomaniac), Santorum (sanctimonious a$$hole) and Paul (perhaps deserving of second look) are way better than the socialist-in-chief.

@Army Officer:

Dr. Krauthammer, like all commentators who are imprisoned by political correctness, continues in his delusion that Obama is just a regular American, a Harvard scholar, law professor, and all around good guy, who has risen to the Office of President by achieving the votes of America’s obviously intelligent electorate. I find it extremely disconcerting that one of the most lucid political analysts refuses to consider the verifiable facts that Obama is a fraud, pathological liar, and communist radical who may, or may not, have some "book learning", but who is illiterate in terms of integrity, honor, character, and courage. At best, he and his entourage of communist czars and political groupies are nothing but a bunch of sheltered, brainwashed, ideological pseudo-intellectuals.

I have tried for months to bring light to Dr. Krauthammer’s darkness, but so far all efforts have been in vain. I hope that one of the TV panels on which he sits are forced to discuss the comments by Gingrich at the end of last night’s debate, to the effect that, “we (GOP) have to make sure that a Saul Alinsky radical does not remain in the White House”.

Please wake up, Dr. Krauthammer. Can you hear me now?

"The struggling Democratic class-war narrative is suddenly given life and legitimacy by ... Republicans!"

Surprise? How so? Republican and Democrat establishments aren't significantly different. They collude to aggregate power to themselves. The smoke and sparks between them are just a diversion as they continue to build the WaDC Leviathan and bleed productive America dry.

What would every voter think if every employer, every rich rip-off-artist, every horrendous banker, chemist, drug store, food store, greedy utility vendors (water, electricity, sewerage service providor), steel makers, miners, transportation companies ( trucking, Rail,etc) et al just stopped being greedy nasty people and closed their businesses for a month to show the government and its leftist supporters that they they are not so bad. Just put them on the same dole, the same benefits, as farmers, politicians, food stamp recipients, medicare recipients, those who accept city, state and federal assistence. Would the voter feel better, the President, Congresspersons? Would that end all of the bickering and bitterness in this country we call the land of the free? Isnt everything in the land of the free SUPPOSED to be FREE. Did we forget about the constraint of personal freedom which we have fought so valiently for since the middle to late 1700's, that right to limit our personel freedom which allows everyone else to have the same rights, that basic and essential right to practice freedom for every man, woman and chile, the right of LIBERTY. There is no freedom at all, just anarchy, bitterness, crime, indifference, and cruelty in a land of freedom, Without the personal and individual practice of personal restraint of his/her own freedoms such that those pursuits do not infringe on the similar persuits of others with the same constraints of freedom in obeyance of the constraint of that freedom called LIBERTY. Why hasn't President Obama, VP Joe Beiden, or Sec of State Hillery R Clinton spoken in clear plain english about this matter? Representatives, Senators, Supreme Court Judges, grade school teachers, high school teachers, college professors, THE MEDIA? Conservative candidates for every political office contest, leftists, moderates, people in churches, homes and clubs, restaurants, lecturists, Talk show hosts, the police, political commentators, Bankers, Businessmen, CEO's CIO's COO's VP's Generals, Admirals, Colonels, every voter, every person, any person