GOP's Checks Bounce

GOP's Checks Bounce Electability and the Republican Field

“ The anxious GOP Establishment, which has detested every conservative would-be Republican presidential nominee -- Ronald Reagan not excluded -- since 1952, is desperately trying to sell this argument right now.  On September 28, David Frum, who seems to have morphed from a conservative into a water-carrier for the Country Club set, wrote a spectacularly conclusory, banal, and unpersuasive piece arguing the Republican Establishment's default position, and even AT's Mercer Tyson joined in on October 1.  Don't believe any of it. If for no other reason, don't believe it because the same electability narrative -- less blatantly but with equal vigor -- is being peddled by the MSM, which has been carpet-bombing Rick Perry from 30,000 feet for some three weeks now.  Does any reader of this site believe that the MSM is trying to help the Republican Party avoid an electability mistake in choosing its nominee?  [FULL Wonderfulness] ” Spot-on observations by Jared E. Peterson (American Thinker), and worth reading.  This included list needs no explanation. 1976: Gerald Ford (moderate): Lost. 1980: Ronald Reagan (conservative): Won. 1984: Ronald Reagan (conservative): Won. 1988: George H. W. Bush (conservative, by the good fortune of association with Ronald Reagan): Won. 1992: George H. W. Bush (moderate, by the misfortune of having been himself for four years): Lost. 1996: Bob Dole (moderate): Lost. 2000: George W. Bush (conservative -- I'm talking perception): Won. 2004: George W. Bush (conservative -- see above comment): Won. 2008: John McCain (moderate): Lost.  Am I hallucinating, or is a pattern discernible?