The Republican presidential field is a huge problem for the Republican Party.
Mitt Romney, the "front runner", is a serial flip-flopper who most conservative activist voters (the overwhelming majority of Republican primary voters) believe they can't trust. Hence, Romney has failed to clear 30% in any recent national poll, and is generally mired in the 20-25% range.
Rick Perry, with money and right-wing fervor, had been the hope of many on the establishment right, like Fred Thompson was in 2008. Instead, he actually turned out to be like Fred Thompson in 2008, a huge disappointment: Perry is a terrible debater, whose positions on Social Security (it's unconstitutional) make him unelectable in a general election.
Things have gotten so bad that Hermain Cain, who is even more unelectable than Perry, has surged to the top of the opinion polls. The rest of the field is utterly weak, composed of tea party crazies (Bachman, Santorum), washed-up has beens (Gingrich), unelectable libertarians (Paul, Gary Johnson), and Jon Huntsman, who would have had an excellent chance at the Republican nomination in 1960, but is more than a bit too moderate for today's Republicans.
So What's going to happen?
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