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Michael Tomasky: There Will Be No Saviors for the GOP in 2012

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The Republican party’s biggest problem isn’t its candidates. It’s the ideological bloodlust of its base.

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The bombshell dropped in Saturday’s Playbook, the chattering-class email sent out every morning by the Politico’s Mike Allen. If Mitt Romney fails to win Michigan next Tuesday, a few high-powered Republicans have started saying, the party needs to go back to square one and recruit a new candidate.

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