Last night was the third time that Mitt Romney has beaten Newt Gingrich fair and square in a GOP presidential primary. Romney is moving clearly and with mounting momentum toward the GOP nomination.
But, there are some who are not happy with this.
First, there were the Obama apologists on the CNN Nevada primary coverage team last night. We are all used to their approach - "it means nothing," as if Americans voting somehow doesn't count. And, when reality is just too much to deny, they turn to the tired old line, "but just wait till Super Tuesday," as if that will somehow erase Romney's till-then lead and make him disappear. It is transparent campaigning for Obama, and they are only too happy for the platform. If it weren't for Dave Gergen - even though he got at least one poke in the shoulder from Obama-pleader-in-chief Gloria Borger - there would have been no real analysis of the events in Nevada. I ought to mention Mr. Cain, too, because he's a new face on CNN political coverage, and his remarks seemed reasonable.
But, last night the Obama crowd was counting angels on pinheads in trying to say that Romney has done nothing to make it sure that he will be the nominee. He has not won sufficient tea party votes - although he took the majority of them in Florida and in Nevada. He is not liked by conservative GOPers who don't like his policies or his religion or the fact that they believe he can't beat Obama - although 74% of them said last night in CNN caucus entrance polls that they would vote for him precisely because he can beat Obama, and further that his religious affiliation makes no difference to them - and he got more committed religious voters' votes than Gingrich.
Give me a break.
Mr. Gingrich slapped the icing on the cake with his histrionics about a "new clean campaign" and winning by the time the Texas primary was over. Even CNN couldn't make that one work out mathematically.
Newt - go home. Call off your wife and daughters. Take a deep breath and admit that you will never be president because you are...grumpy at best, downright mean at worst, eager to smear anyone and any fact to put events in your corner, and functionally unable to be polite when you lose, and who wants a sore loser in the White House?
Mitt Romney is going to be the GOP candidate. He is well-informed, reasonable, calm in the face of your tantrums, and a genuinely good person whose life and family speak mountains about his character.
Go home, Newt.
To quote a million past GOP posters, "We want Romney."
I couldn't have said it better, except Newtwit is a twit.
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