Mitt Romney is quickly shaping up to be the front-runner of the Republican 2012 contenders.
However, Mr. Romney has a number of serious problems that have to do with the core of the Republican party.

Republican Party Issues:
1.) Core evangelical base
2.) Pro-business donor base
3.) Conservatism that emphasizes a strong U.S. military.

Obviously Romney’s private equity background appeals to the pro-business donor base; however, Romney lacks George W. Bush’s appeal to the real grass roots muscle of the Republican Party, the evangelical Christian core base. John McCain was able to tap the Evangelical base using Sarah Palin, and benefited from going up against a non-incumbent Democratic Party nominee for President — one that could also be painted as an outsider to “real America.”

Romeny lacks McCain’s military background, military foreign policy experience and also needs to shore up his support among evangelicals through either policy or some other method. McCain was able to overcome the evangelical issues by adding Sarah Palin. Since Romeny has two issues to deal with he is going to have a much more difficult time covering his problems.

All it took was a scandal for David Paterson to acknowledge the fact that he had about a 5% chance of re-election. Beyond that scant chance of re-election pre-scandal, David Paterson consistently wanted to fight the Chi-town Crew as though he had the institutional and media clout to tangle with the POTUS — much less lessor advisers on the Whitehouse Staff.

David Paterson simply was unable to find his own unique identity as New York Governor, and never able to establish a reliable media routine. Granted, New York is absolutely in turmoil, and in some ways Eliot Spitzer lucked out immensely. Spitzer avoided his staff’s creepy staling of opposition leaders, and dealing with the inevitable fall-out from economic difficulty.

Interestingly, here is Al Sharpton’s tweet from a meeting last night with Governor David Paterson, were Sharpton alludes to Paterson dropping out of the NY Gov race:

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Evidently, New York Governor David Patterson is dealing with a number of allegations swirling about in newsrooms. As a result of yet unpublished rumors and innuendo, Patterson is mounting an impressive campaign in the media to preempt any articles.

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