Okay, Romney has about twice as many deleagtes now as Santorum. Coming up is super Tuesday (except in Texas) which could make things alot closer, but probably not.

the current gap is only 3 points, with close to 90 percent of the vote now in. Romney staggers on, therefore, without resolving any of his fundamental weaknesses. What Santorum represents - the hard edge of Christianism - remains a solid bloc that the Mormon Romney may be able to overcome by a long, hard slog in the primary, but will need to go very, very negative in the fall to bring out against Obama.

"Mitt Romney: Hey, it Could Be Worse."

New bumper sticker idea?

Romney, when they're out of Reagan.

Santorum mentioned his 93-year-old mother, something he hasn't in previous speeches, and he told the audience in what seemed to be a pitch to female voters who might feel put off by some of his previous comments about women in the workplace, that his mother made more money than his father.
"She was someone who did get a job in the 1930s and was a nurse, and worked full time. She continued to work through my childhood years," Santorum said to the crowd that was heavy on families with young children. "She balanced time working different schedules. A professional who made more money than her husband."
Santorum's mother was a nurse and his father was a psychologist for the Veteran's Administration.
The former Pennsylvania senator also touted his wife's work experience, saying she was a "professional" as well, and thanked his daughter, Elizabeth, who has been on the campaign trail with him since the early days in Iowa.
"[Karen] worked as a nurse, but after we got married, she decided to walk away, yet didn't quit working. She was a mother, and also wrote two books," Santorum said, in what also seemed to be an appeal to female voters.
He spent most of his speech repeating the themes he does on the stump, including his mention of the Declaration of Independence, but this evening there was a twist on that, too.
"The men and women who signed that declaration wrote the final phrase, 'We pledge to each other our lives, our fortune, and our sacred honor," Santorum said.
There were no women who signed the Declaration of Independence...

"I gotta press the button. That will be my heavy lift in terms of manufacturing."

-- Mitt Romney, quoted by the Washington Post, while touring a family-owned fence-post maker in Ohio.

Shepard Smith on Fox just commented that Romney was wearing mom jeans during a speech.

He's pandering to the crossdresser vote.

Amid better economic news, a declining unemployment rate, and an ongoing -- and combative -- Republican primary campaign, voter confidence in President Obama now stands at a nearly one-year high.

In response to a question about gun control today, Mitt Romney claimed he owns guns himself.

Said Romney: "I believe in the second amendment, I'll protect the second amendment, I have guns myself. Not going to tell you where they are. Don't have them on myself either, alright."

However, ABC News reports that in 2007, "after Romney claimed that he did have guns he later retracted his statement, saying that he himself does not have guns but his sons do."

"Look, I have worn a garbage bag for rain gear myself," - Mitt Romney, who mocked a group of NASCAR fans for wearing cheap plastic ponchos on Sunday.

"Every time I hear Mr. Romney talk about this, I think his daddy must be turning over in his grave."

"I recommend you watch the recent [GOP] debates. I'm thinking about just running those as advertisements. Without commentary; here you go."

he’d asked me about the advice I’d give Romney, I’d have said: Take a stand. Choose something and take a stand that surprises people. Stand up to your base on one thing. Show that you have a spine. Because right now you are a jellyfish. People laugh at you. Your father told people where to get off constantly. For whatever psychological reason, you decided to be his opposite. Your choice. But if this race goes the way it looks as if it’s going to go, you will not only lose, but you will go down in history as a punch line. Your name will become a verb, and not a flattering one.

Your name will become a verb, and not a flattering one.

Four Fiscal Phonies
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Mitt Romney is very concerned about budget deficits. Or at least that’s what he says; he likes to warn that President Obama’s deficits are leading us toward a “Greece-style collapse.”

So why is Mr. Romney offering a budget proposal that would lead to much larger debt and deficits than the corresponding proposal from the Obama administration?

Of course, Mr. Romney isn’t alone in his hypocrisy. In fact, all four significant Republican presidential candidates still standing are fiscal phonies. They issue apocalyptic warnings about the dangers of government debt and, in the name of deficit reduction, demand savage cuts in programs that protect the middle class and the poor. But then they propose squandering all the money thereby saved — and much, much more — on tax cuts for the rich.

And nobody should be surprised. It has been obvious all along, to anyone paying attention, that the politicians shouting loudest about deficits are actually using deficit hysteria as a cover story for their real agenda, which is top-down class warfare. To put it in Romneyesque terms, it’s all about finding an excuse to slash programs that help people who like to watch Nascar events, even while lavishing tax cuts on people who like to own Nascar teams.

O.K., let’s talk about the numbers....

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Remember the story of Seamus the dog? How could you forget? Here's the latest salvo: a member of the group Dogs Against Romney strapped a kennel to the roof of his car with a stuffed canine and a camera inside, then went out on the highway to provide a sort of SeamusCam -- the view of what the Romney family dog would have seen on his infamous journey to Canada atop a Chevy station wagon. It's about as uncomfortable-looking as you'd expect.

But how has it become so memorable? In comparison to other micro-controversies that were supposedly revealing of candidates' character flaws -- from Al Gore's supposed invention of the Internet to George W. Bush's many malapropisms to John Kerry's windsurfing --Seamus' tale has had an unusually long life, even in dog years.

Well, Romney wins another one. I can't wait for next week's primaries. Of course, Texas won't vote until May. It could be over by then.

The more and more I see of Santorum, the more I think he is the kid who got beat up regularly in high school. I'm sorry he's a paisan.

First, the sheriff with the agenda, and now Santorum. You're apologizing for a lot of Italians today.

Ashcroft just endorsed Mitt. I have a feeling tomorrow will be a big day for him. If he wins Ohio, and Tennessee is even close, I think it's all but over. Not that any of his knuckleheaded adversaries will drop out, though .