The Republican Race

Sadly, Rick Santorum, the second ranked Republican challenger, appears to have pulled out of the race due to a child being ill. I don't want to ascribe any cynical motive to him, because obviously he is a decent man, but he could hardly go on anyway, as the family candidate with a gravely ill child; and he was losing in any case. Possibly the way is now open to him to stand again. And being the family candidate is not such a bad thing to be.

He may well get the opportunity, since Mitt Romney is all that is left (this blog's favoured candidate, Ron Paul, isn't going to be nominated, and choosing Newt Gingrich would be absurd). One analyst pointed out that Mitt Romney has showed he can win against underfunded, badly organised opponents. Now he is up against the united Democratic Party.

As so often, I am left wondering where the Americans find these people. Anyway, in 2016 Obama will be finished and the Republicans know what they need to do: find someone that everybody can accept and that some people find inspiring.

It ain't Mitt.