Hope floats, Romney sinks

Bluer than Ty-D-Bol blue

Seeing her chances of becoming First Lady # 7 slip-sliding away, Kathryn Jean Lopez grabs on to anything handy to keep her spirits afloat.

You gotta have faith:

We could also try the winning approach too. Winning with Romney is not an unbelievable feat.

I know exactly what you’re saying — have obviously thought about it myself. But that’s no attitude for a movement that want to win this year.

Oh shit! Jesus freaks…and not the good ones:

From a friend in Des Moines: "You see tons of Obama people everywhere in Des Moines."

"Quiet, controlled crowd — but the Dems have a huge overflow and crowd control problem."

She adds from the GOP caucus site she’s at (70): "Looks like lots of young evangelicals."

Mr. Huck…he gots no friends:

Impressions from a pro-Romney friend: "Each candidate has a rep from this precinct now making a short pitch for his candidate. Just heard Giuiliani and now on Huckabee — they had a hard time getting a Huckabee person just now."

Thank Jeebus, America isn’t a big Christian Nation!:

Bill Schneider and Others are pointing out the high percentage of evangelical voters who have reportedly turned out. Anti-Huck people are freaking. Deep breaths. As Bill Bennett just pointed out on CNN, evangelicals aren’t necessarily a voting block, as much as Pastor Huckabee has tried to suggest (and prays?) they are in his identity-politicking. Just ask Mark DeMoss.

Rich Lowry tries to let K-Lo down easy by holding out hope that Mitt may still show up on prom night:

If Something Like… …the current GOP spread holds, Romney is going to face the possibility of a McCain blow-out in NH, and his campaign will be rocked to its foundations. I emphasize: If…

Incipient resignation and bitter recriminations against all of the people who failed Mitt…I HATZ U ALZZ!!1!:

Iowa does as Iowa does.

And congrats — he deserves it for coming out of nowhere. I don’t imagine this going much further. But I wonder what this means about Romney’s get-out-the-vote organization. Wasn’t it supposed to be all that?

Taunting from the deck of the SS. Hucktanic:

I’m Assuming These Sorts of E-mails I’m Getting Are Not Coming from First Baptist of Des Moines

To: Kathryn Lopez

Subject: your Ken doll is melting…

…karma’s a bitch, no?

Go Huck!

Glub glub glub…wait! Is that a ship on the horizon? :

A Romney circler emphasizes to me in the virtual spin room: "Huckabee is a pro-life Jimmy Carter – he will be rejected by econ and natl security conservatives.He would be the death knell of the social conservatives as players within the party – hopefully enough will come to their senses."

For them it is about that Reagan coalition. The one Rollins says is dead and thus is determined to destroy. But I’m sensing some nervous optimism that this can be remedied for them. We’ll have more of a sense on Tuesday.

Huck snatches defeat from victory! Mitt Orgy ON!:

Why Does Huckabee Have Rollins Out There When Huck Is His Own Best Salesman?

Getting much e-mails, calls, IMs about Ed Rollins here, there, and everywhere. One: "Watching Fox, I think we just saw Huckabee’s ‘Dean’ moment with Eddy’s meltdown. Picking on Chris Wallace? Why not just shoot Bambi."

Finally a reader gives in to despair and threatens suicide:

I live in Virginia. We don’t vote until 12 February. And here we are, in yet another year, where I’m being told I’m going to have to choose between Mike Huckabee and John McCain as my GOP standard-bearer??

Isn’t there something seriously wrong with this picture?

I know, this is how politics in America works, it’s all Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, all the time. But look at the ideological variety on the GOP side, and tell me that if we listen only to the winners coming out of those three states, how can they POSSIBLY produce a consensus candidate for 2008?

The simple fact is, they can’t, and I increasingly fear, they won’t. I for one know that, as conservative as I am, I couldn’t possibly vote for Huckabee in November, and John RINO McCain would require seriously gritted teeth to vote for after all the insults he’s hurled our way.

Just because bat-crazy Iowa loves its Huck and looney-tunes New Hampshire loves to vote for mavericks, this means I’m going to lose any chance at all to support Fred, Mitt, or Rudy in a mere month’s time? And this is accepted as normal and sane why??

The Republican Party is doing its most loyal supporters a great disservice if it pushes out candidates early this time around. We can forget about any of those "Reagan Coalition" candidates in 2008 unless we get more time than two weeks.

Sigh. What a lousy deal.

I wish Jonah’s book was out already, so I could read away my frustrations tonight.

Brain-death: the cowards way out….