A Mitt Romney loss? Well, that wouldn't be a debacle; that would be just a loss.
So said David Frum, spokesman for the non-Tea-Party-type Republican, last October, here:
Back-to-back losses under John McCain in 2008 and Mitt Romney in 2012 will open the way to an ultra-conservative nominee in 2016 -- and a true party debacle.
It's just like Keynesianism, see. If massive spending doesn't succeed, it's because we didn't spend enough. How do we know that? Well, we failed, so we didn't spend enough.
Faith is by definition not falsifiable.
