COMMENTARY | Savoring his victory in the New Hampshire primary, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney was understandably ebullient. He had been denied the same victory in one of his home states in 2008 by the then future nominee Sen. John McCain.
His victory speech, given before a room full of supporters, was-to employ an overused term -- Reaganesque. While it did not shy away from the problems that afflict the country, it did compare and contrast those problems -- and the man in the White House who is causing them -- with a brighter future and the man who intends to bring it about.
Romney did take a little time to stick a shiv in some of his opponents. "President Obama wants to put free enterprise on trial. In the last few days, we have seen some desperate Republicans join forces with him." Incredibly men like Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry are running to the left of Romney on the issue of free market capitalism. The Wall Street Journal calls Gingrich "Barack Hussein Gingrich" and suggests the former House Speaker is doing Romney a favor by airing the heartless "vulture capitalist" charges now so that the sting will not be as keen when Obama uses the same line in the fall.
Mind, Romney is only the presumptive nominee and not the actual nominee. There are still others in the race who would deny him that honor. Gingrich is already running an ad in socially conservative South Carolina that tells the voters there that Romney is a flip flopper on abortion. Romney insists that his views have changed on due moral reflection and not because they play better for a national candidate.
The question now arises, how will Romney play down south, in South Carolina and then Florida? Sen. Jim DeMint thinks he will do just fine in his state a week from Saturday. He may, however, have some explaining to do among Space Coast workers in Florida about lunar colonies and whether they are really "zany" or not.
If Romney can win in the south, the rationale for a Gingrich or a Perry or even a Santorum evaporates. Incredibly the not-Romney candidate will have never emerged and the several aspirants to that position will one by one drop out of the race. With Ron Paul a niche candidate, Romney will become the nominee in fact as well as in presumption.
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