Well, that was sudden. After what seems like a never ending GOP nomination process and dozens of debates, Mitt Romney should now have it in the bag. With Rick Santorum suspending his campaign, his supporters have little choice but to fall behind Romney, the candidate who has struggled to attract the GOP base even when all the other options were embroiled in scandals or embarrassing debate performances. Santorum was a controversial candidate in some ways, but his determination has never been in doubt, as the ever excellent Timothy Stanley has pointed out.
Now the serious business can commence – making sure that Barack Obama is a one-term President. It is truly shocking that eveCPn during a financial crisis caused in part by the out of control spending of big government, there are still Keynesians like Obama who actually believe they can spend taxpayers’ money and somehow create prosperity. Semantics are the order of the day. A stimulus is merely ‘investment,’ despite the fact that taxpayers would actually prefer a tax cut so they can feed their families. Businesses face the daunting prospect of rising tax rates – stifling economic growth and job creation.
Realistically, Ron Paul has reached his limit. The socially conservative supporters of Santorum will never jump ship to him. Paul’s libertarian movement are not finished, he will probably stay in the race to raise funds for the inevitable Rand Paul campaign in 2016 or 2020. Newt Gingrich, despite his earlier successes and self-confidence, has lost the support of the GOP and is unlikely to get it back at this late stage.
So now it truly is Mitt Romney’s nomination to lose. I don’t know many Republicans who would say he is their perfect candidate, but a moderate is always better than a Leftist. Besides, if the GOP can take the Senate, they can make sure that Romney remembers what conservative principles are. True conservatives in the UK would like to see stronger relations and trade between both of our great nations. We need to move away from the bureaucrats and technocrats of the European Union, who even now are spending hundreds of billions of dollars trying to keep flat lining economies like Greece afloat. They will fail, of course, and then they will try and do the same thing again. Daniel Hannan, the President of YBF, expressed this eloquently during his speech at CPAC this year.
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