Richard Mourdock Finds the Center

     While it seems that the conservatives will try to spin this impending Romney loss-I'm not saying "if" but others can if they want-as the failure of Romney to run as a real conservative, to be a real conservative, there are signs that suggest otherwise.

       For the attmept to claim conservatism is not being repudiated seen here:

       http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2012/09/how-will-gop-explain-romneys-loss.html

      One example is what we looked at in the last post-that Romney is now again touting RomneyCare with some tacit permission from Republcians. Vote for me, I'm compassionate and passed ObamaCare. On my first day in office, I promise to repeal ObamaCare. Whiplash much?

      Romney again touting RomneyCare

      http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2012/09/romney-again-touting-romneycare.html

      And now we have Richard Mourdock, a Tea Party extraordinare suddenly making moderate noises:

      "Richard Mourdock became one of the tea party's biggest winners of the 2012 primary season when he knocked off veteran Indiana Sen. Richard Lugar in a brutal campaign built on his contention that Lugar was too old, too out of touch and too friendly with Democrats — a RINO, Republican in name only."

      "But the movement's biggest RINO hunter is now changing his tune as he tries to woo moderate voters in a tight race that stands as a key test of the tea party's ability to win outside the nation's most conservative states."

       "Mourdock is matched in the general election against moderate Democratic Rep. Joe Donnelly, who is running even in recent polls despite Indiana's Republican tilt. Suddenly, gone is the strident rhetoric in which Mourdock proclaimed that bipartisanship meant Democrats coming over to Republicans' thinking and that winning meant he would "inflict my opinion on someone else." In its place are support for parts of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, pledges to protect Democratic-championed programs like Social Security and Medicare, and even the once-shunned notion of compromise."

     http://news.yahoo.com/tea-party-hero-changes-tune-woo-ind-moderates-070632002--election.html

     So this is the true fruit of all the Tea Party labor. They've pushed the GOP primaries so far Right that the GOP candidate is too far Right for the mainstream. Yet Boehner and McConnell claim they won't compromise more in the next Congress?

     We'll see. I never want to underestimate the perversity of the GOP but at the end of the day all politicians want to be re-elected. The conservatives have been on the ascendency in the party since  Goldwater's rise in 1964. It will be interesting to see if the kind of loss the GOP seems to be headed for will change this dynamic.