By Fareed Zakaria,
Passion is not enough to change the Republican Party. Despite the Tea Party's massive burst of energy, it looks increasingly likely that the GOP will nominate Mitt Romney, the front-runner, the guy who ran once before, the former governor who waited his turn to be the standard-bearer. This is a familiar pattern for a practical, hierarchical organization — the same one that chose George Bush senior, Robert Dole, George Bush junior and John McCain. (The Democrats, by contrast, often nominate an outsider — John Kennedy, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama.)
Passion is not enough to change the Republican Party. Despite the Tea Party's massive burst of energy, it looks increasingly likely that the GOP will nominate Mitt Romney, the front-runner, the guy who ran once before, the former governor who waited his turn to be the standard-bearer. This is a familiar pattern for a practical, hierarchical organization — the same one that chose George Bush senior, Robert Dole, George Bush junior and John McCain. (The Democrats, by contrast, often nominate an outsider — John Kennedy, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama.)