This summarizes the problem the Reps are having with the 2012 election. To win Iowa and South Carolina people like Pawlenty and Romney have to disavow their moderation and try to please the tea baggers, and then hope they survive long enough to get back to the moderately right of center position that could make the 2012 election a close one. Their problem IMHO is that they aren't going to make a dent in the tea baggers' vote anyway, so to try to appease them will be a sign of "flip flopping" in the general election. So far I don't see anyone who can bridge the gap between sane republicans like Romney Pawlenty and Huntsman, and the rest of them, who are unelectable wackos.