Romney’s Path Is Clear

Later today, Jon Huntsman is planning on getting out of a race he never had any chance of winning.  The man, after all, happily served as Obama’s Ambassador to China.  He wrote letters praising the Illustrious One.  I was happy to have Huntsman in the race to pull votes away from the other Progressive running, Mitt Romney.  Now there is not much blocking Romney from the inevitable.  The Establishment wanted their man and they will have him.  And America will have Obama for another four years.  No one will choose Obama-lite over the real deal after all.  Why take RomneyCare when you can have ObamaCare?

National Journal reports:

Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman will announce on Monday that he is dropping his bid for the Republican presidential nomination after a disappointing finish in last week’s New Hampshire primary, a source confirmed to National Journal.

Huntsman will endorse Republican front-runner Mitt Romney, squashing any potential rumors that he will seek to run as an independent candidate.

The endorsement will take place at 11 a.m. EST at the Myrtle Beach Area Chamber of Commerce in Myrtle Beach, S.C., where Huntsman had previously scheduled several campaign events on Monday.

Some maintain this won’t help Romney because Huntsman was atrracting Democrats.  They are wrong as is evident from the voting in New Hampshire.  Romney did not sweep the place like expected with Huntsman in the race.  Romney was not expected to do as well in South Carolina with his previous fourth place finish in 2008 there.  But with Huntsman out and Newt, Santorum and Perry splitting the conservative vote and Paulbots doing their thing, South Carolina should be smooth sailing for Romney.  With a win in South Carolina catapulting him to Florida where he is polling well and the winner takes all the delegates…Romney’s path is clear.  Senator Grahamnesty and Representative Scott have said that the race should be over if Romney wins their state.  Screw the other 47 states then?

So what are conservatives to do if the race seems done by February?  We will vote for Romney because the alternative of Obama is just that bad.  But our focus must be on keeping the House and taking the Senate.  Not only that, we need to change out GOP leadership.  John Boehner must go, as well as Mitch McConnell.  We need people that will gridlock everything Obama puts forward.  We need people who will present Obama with an emaciated budget forcing cuts.  We need people who will rebuild the military manpower.  We need people who will deal with entitlement programs.  More Tea Party candidates will get us there and that is where my focus will be if and when the inevitable happens…yes I am an optimist!