First Posted: 9/12/11 04:00 PM ET Updated: 9/12/11 07:17 PM ET
The GOP doesn't do "superdelegates" in the way that the Democrats do "superdelegates" (and after 2008, you can hardly blame them). But their elites do like to throw their weight around, and Monday, with Romney earning both the endorsement and the material assistance of Tim Pawlenty, it's starting to become clear that the party elites are coming home to Mitt Romney. Since then, Mike Huckabee has followed suit, by going on Laura Ingraham's show and saying something nice about Romney, while attacking Rick Perry with the Romney campaign's preferred line du jour.
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It is clear the Republican primaries are almost over and it will take one or two elections to decide this thing. All the full weight of the money that backs the eventual candidate will be brought to bear on destroying Rick Perry but it will be done in such a way as not to offend the supporters of the candidate. The Republicans appear ready to fall in line behind Wall Street's choice, who was really picked for them months ago before anyone had the chance to vote. Come to think of barely anyone has voted now. The scrambling appears to be an attempt to make sure Rick Perry or any of those who the Republican high finance ministers see as wearing tin hats and having their own little club house (i.e. Rick Perry, Michele Bachamann or Ron Paul) don't get anywhere near the nomination. The voters who supported these candidates will then be expected to turn up and vote for the incredibly unpopular Mitt Romney in November. Romney appears to have very little base of support outside of his friends (i.e. the corporations who he's made clear are people too) who keep shovelling money into his coffers. By fall, if he can dust off the nuts. He will be back in warm sweaters, with puppies, a insincere grin, and surrounded by his big and ever expanding family. These ads will have all the depth of a Tide detergent commercial and the press will talk about how the candidates will talk about how we're ready to get down to the hard issues that the American people care about. In truth nobody really cares what they care about?
