Romney Again

Mitt Romney won the New Hampshire Primary last night with almost 40 percent of the vote. I am not of a mind that New Hampshire means much but it does signify that Romney can hold what is his in New England.

Perhaps the biggest surprise is that the Republican Democrats like, Jon Huntsman, did not finish second. He finished third. Despite his advising that third place gave him a ticket to ride onto South Carolina it is hard to believe that anybody in his right mind would project Huntsman to do well south of the Mason Dixon Line. It is odd that a man as conservative as Huntsman cannot gain traction but it might well be more of an issue of how he presented himself. Romney is a moderate pretending to be a Conservative while Huntsman is a Conservative pretending to be a moderate.

It is enough to make your head spin.

Second place went to Ron Paul. Ron Paul who his fellow Republicans castigate as crazy has a dedicated following in every state. Paul earned 24 percent of the vote in New Hampshire. The fact that New Hampshire has an open primary and independents can partake certainly increased Paul's vote but this also means that Paul has to be sorely tempted to take his ten to twenty percent nationally as an independent candidate. Especially if they continue to call him and his followers names.

It looks like Romney is to be the nominee. It is not because the Republicans want him as much as the fact that they just cannot find anyone they dislike less.

Bush, Christie, Daniels, Huckabee, Palin. The list goes on and on. For some reason it appears that the best politicians often choose to sit on the sidelines. This might be the most significant comment on American Presidential politics that one could find.