horse of george

So, Romney wins disappointing liberals and hard conservatives everywhere [that these two constituencies are united in grief says all one needs to know about this primary]. Although I suppose a win is better than a loss, in reality, as Pyrrhus showed, it all depends on the context - and still the context suggests that if Romney cannot get a knock out win that removes the GOP base from the equation and thereby kicks the idiotic musings of Santorum and Gingrich from the front pages, musings which do nothing at all but drag Romney into the swampy vortex of unelectability, then a win really ain't that much of a win. He has another chance of a knock out next week with Super Tuesday - Gingrich probably takes Georgia, but the key will be Ohio - Santorum takes Ohio and once again he'll be viewed as 'viable' even though he is entirely and quite obviously not viable. A measure of just how absolutely absurd this primary has become will be if Romney takes Ohio, which should push him beyond the pestilential clutches of the others, and yet because Gingrich takes Georgia he again climbs in the national polls - if that happens, the GOP is dead and we might as well just give the election to Obama now in order to expedite the great moving on.