Chris Cillizza yesterday laid out Mitt Romney's "path" to the Republican nomination yesterday, which is really Romney's preferred path: a disciplined economic message, New Hampshire and Florida, big money.
There is, though, another path, perhaps a likelier one: That any road from Romney's current, anemic numbers for a frontrunner to the nomination runs through the sort of desperate train-wreck that nearly ended the campaign of Senator John McCain in the summer of 2007.
That's the view of Alex Castellanos, who advised Romney in 2008 but is no longer close to his circle.
"It’s the McCain trajectory – except he’s not going to start off as strong as McCain," Castellanos told me today.
"Everybody will be in the Romney parking lot, and then they’ll wake up an they’ll say, 'Hey we aren’t really excited about this. Where’the girl in the red dress? And then they’ll leave and Mitt will be standing there alone."
"At some point he surrenders [control of] his fate," the sometimes-gnomic Castellanos predicted. "Mitt will be tested and the same MR who ran last time won’t succeed this time. We have to see: Has he learned anything? Has he returned a serious enough candidate to put his hands on the reins of America’s economy?"
"There’s a good chance he’ll be the nominee, not in spite of what he’s going to go through, but because of it," he said.
Source: http://feeds.politico.com/click.phdo?i=1d3e9eeba474c5530f6ff31170fbfcc1
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