Romney is Northeastern, ideologically flexible, linked to and familiar with Wall Street ways, supported by party establishmentarians, and has never had anything but a glancing relationship with the grass roots (tea party or otherwise) of his party.Whereas Garrett describes the current GOP as:
A party that’s never been more Southern and Western, ideologically conservative, and viscerally hostile to Beltway or Wall Street know-it-alls.
Garrett leaves out one important component of "Western" which is the concentration of Mormons in the Mountain West. They are likely to vote for Romney over Gingrich.
Also, who better portrays a Beltway know-it-all than Newt? Just saying....
