Yep. His speech after FL and NH were solid too. After Michigan, I am pretty much ready to reluctantly accept that he is the nominee. Unless something goes horribly against Mitt, he’ll sew it up on super tuesday.
Romney can and should win again Obama. He paints an attractive alternative to the Obama agenda for the average Republican and independent voter.
I am far from thrilled about him in the White House, but he’s miles better than Obama. Four more years of a megalomaniac leftist is just not an option. Obama will replace at least one of our five Supremes...and probably two more. Obamacare will be fully enact, and we’ll fall further into the abyss. The winner of the GOP race has always had my vote, and we are on the verge of knowing who that will be. Santorum simply was not good enough in the past 10 days to extend this thing further. Too many mistakes and silly statements. We have to get a Senate majority and create a mandate for as much of Paul Ryan’s plan as possible...and force Romney to the right. He’ll sign whatever gets through the Senate We’ll also have to keep the pressure on for key judicial appointments.
Freudian much?
Agreeing with you 100%. As expected there is a lot of groans and even gnashing of teeth on FR. But it was much the same way when McCain became the nominee. It got pretty ugly here, and everyone seemed to lose any excitement they had about the election. That all changed the day he chose Palin as his VP. People on FR who knew who she was, were now doing cartwheels, and asking how to get yard signs. All we can hope for is Romney chooses his running mate very wisely.
ilgipper said, “Unless something goes horribly against Mitt, he’ll sew it up on super tuesday.”
Romney is going to hit a brick wall in the South. The dirty little secret is only ONE of the 21 most conservative states according to Gallup rankings below has voted TO DATE (most of them southern states). 885 of the delegates remaining come from those conservative states (the other 989 from the other states). After tonight, Romney only has 137 of the 1,144 delegates needed to win.
The path to at least stop Romney from winning the nomination outright is to keep Romney in third place throughout the southern states (or if one of the two has a blowout win like in SC). This thing is NOT over yet by a longshot. But the only likely real path to the nomination for either Newt or Rick is to earn enough delegates to beat Romney and Paul’s combined total and then find a way to merge them at the convention.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/152459/Mississippi-Conservative-State-Liberal.aspx
TOTAL DELEGATES BY STATE (1144 needed to win):
CON 909 (884 to go)
MOD 661 (420 to go)
LIB 605 (569 to go)
??? 32
CON Mississippi (primary) - 40
CON Utah (primary) - 40 (WTA)
CON Wyoming (caucus) - 29
CON Alabama (primary) - 50 (WTA)
CON Louisiana (primary) - 46
CON Arkansas (primary) - 36
CON Oklahoma (primary) - 43 (WTA)
CON Nebraska (primary) - 35
CON Idaho (caucus) - 32
CON Tennessee (primary) - 58 (WTA)
*VOTED* CON South Carolina (primary) – 25 [GINGRICH]
CON North Dakota (caucus) - 28
CON South Dakota (primary) - 28
CON Kansas (caucus) - 40
CON Texas (primary) - 155
CON Georgia (primary) - 76
CON Indiana (primary) - 46
CON West Virginia (primary) - 31
CON Montana (primary) - 26
CON Missouri (GOP caucus) – 52
CON Kentucky (primary) - 45
MOD North Carolina (primary) - 55
MOD Ohio (primary) - 66
MOD Virginia (primary) - 49
*VOTED* MOD Arizona (primary) - 29 (WTA) [ROMNEY]
*VOTED* MOD Florida (primary) - 50 (WTA) [ROMNEY]
*VOTED* MOD Iowa (caucus) – 28 [SANTORUM]
*VOTED* MOD Michigan (primary) - 30 [ROMNEY]
MOD New Mexico (primary) - 23
MOD Pennsylvania (primary) - 72
MOD Wisconsin (primary) - 42
*VOTED* MOD Colorado (caucus) - 36 [SANTORUM]
*VOTED* MOD Minnesota (caucus) - 40 [SANTORUM]
MOD Delaware (primary) - 17 (WTA)
*VOTED* MOD Nevada (caucus) - 28 [ROMNEY]
MOD Illinois (primary) - 69
MOD Alaska (caucus) - 27
LIB Maryland (primary) - 37
*VOTED* LIB Maine (caucus) - 24 [ROMNEY]
LIB Vermont (primary) - 17
LIB Connecticut (primary) - 28
*VOTED* LIB New Hampshire (primary) – 12 [ROMNEY]
LIB Rhode Island (primary) - 19
LIB New Jersey (primary) - 50 (WTA)
LIB California (primary) - 172
LIB Hawaii (caucus) - 20
LIB New York (primary) - 95
LIB Washington (caucus) - 43
LIB Oregon (primary) - 28
LIB Massachusetts (primary) - 41
LIB District of Columbia (primary) - 19 (WTA)
??? U.S. Virgin Islands (caucus) - 9
??? Puerto Rico (primary) - 23