Insiders Call GOP Lurch To The Right “A Fucking Mess,” Fundraiser On Romney Campaign: “Ridiculous”

The Republican party’s move to the right in the 2012 presidential nomination process is “a fucking mess” according to former Reagan strategist Ed Rollins in New York Magazine.

The party faitfhul’s split between Romney and Santorum has come about as the party has grown “whiter, less well schooled, more blue-collar, and more hair-curlingly populist,” according to writer John Heilemann.

A Romney fundraiser, assessing the Massachusetts millionaire’s lackluster campaign and habit of reciting the verses of “America the Beautiful” tells New York: “I have never seen anything more ridiculous or belittling.”

A Republican strategist tells the magazine that Romney’s description of himself as “severely conservatie” was “the most retarded thing I have ever heard a Republican candidate say.”

Cataloguing the various missteps made by the Romney campaign, a campaign veteran notes: “Our guys on Capitol Hill are moving into survival-of-the-fittest, only-worrying-about-themselves mode. They think the damage to Romney may be done and may be irreversible—and now he might not even be the nominee.”

VIA New York Magazine

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