Let’s look a bit closer at Romney’s situation. He has thus far won in three states where he really had a big advantage:
1. Massachusetts, where he was governor.
2. Utah, where the huge Mormon population supported him.
3. Michigan, where his father was governor.

Besides those, he has mainly only won in the uncontested states, the ones where almost no one else even battled for. These include Wyoming, Nevada, Maine, Alaska, Montana, and North Dakota.

That leaves just Colorado and Minnesota, where Romney won a state that was at least marginally contested and had a reasonable vote turnout. But neither of these was a real battleground state like California, Georgia, Alabama, New York, Florida, South Carolina, Iowa, Missouri, and so on.

This isn’t to say that those delegates don’t count. In one way, it is a smart strategy for him to pick up those states, and he has the money to go after them. Every delegate counts. However, the point is that his candidacy is very weak, even weaker than it appears according to his delegate count.

He really hasn’t demonstrated the ability to win in key battleground states. McCain has, and so has Huckabee.

If what happened to Romney last night had happened to Huckabee, the media and the talking heads like Rush and Hannity would be shouting that Huckabee should leave the race. But will they even whisper that about Romney now? Perhaps not. But Romney ought to think very seriously about it, nonetheless. And so should everyone who claims to be determined to stop McCain. In all those battleground states Huckabee won, it was McCain who finished in second–McCain whom he beat.

Romney is in trouble, and any objective observer knows it.

The Romney team is upset, but nothing wrong was done. Nobody lied. Nobody cheated.

Romney lost. Huckabee won.

just when you think you’re picking up momentum and you have a state that has been polling your way throughout the entire campaign, this happens.

There was every indication that this would be a positive day for Mitt Romney and now he has to deal with dirty back room politics….and despicable tactics by the McCain campaign that will stop at nothing to get their man elected.

Unfortunately, Romney is now fighting an uphill battle with almost everyone in the establishment against him. It used to be, to stand on principle meant something…to take the high road was honorable, integrity was a virtue. Now, they are recipes for failure in politics. If I was Romney, I’d take my millions, take my morals, and my good name and character out of the race and retire from American politics.

The media and the political establishment do not want Honest Abe in the White House, they would much rather have a Slick Willy candidate much like themselves. It makes them feel better about their immoral conduct and helps them sleep at night.

Congratulations to the McCain/Huckabee ticket….GREAT tag team!

21 States reporting

9 for McCain
7 for Romney
5 for Huckabee

Delegate count as of this moment

McCain - 615
Romney - 268
Huckabee - 169

And theres still contests to go, McCain doesn’t anything sewn up yet. This night was McCain’s, true, but he may have lost the war trying to close down Romney. I bet voters are going to remember West Virginia, and wonder “Can I trust Mac?”