Right now it's not the Democrats or Liberals that are attacking or leaking info against the real conservative candidates like Perry, Bachman and Cain, it's the Republican establishment types who don't want their apple cart overturned with any challenge to the Belt Way status quo. They want their "good boys" like Romney, and even Newt if his numbers rise, to take the main stage and thereby blunt any challenges to the powers behind the scene.

The Democrats and Liberals will step up with a strategy they think will destroy the eventual Republican nominee when the time comes. My theory is they already have something they think will harpoon Romney at that time, and that they are salivating to use it. Why else is the lamestream media and the liberal talking heads on their networks pushing the idea that Romney is the "only one" who has a chance to dethrone their own anointed champion.

That's my take, and for now I'm sticking with with it. Nothing else makes sense to me.

All I'm going to say about Villager II's post is that the Reagan campaign and election disputes most, if not all, of your assumptions about who can, or can not, be elected.