Everyday we inch closer to that terrible moment in Tampa when the GOP will crown their nominee to take aim at the White House. Ever since Obama won in 2008, people have been clamoring for Mitt Romney. He’s the handsome business man from Massachusetts, a guy with values. Not only was this his race to win, but it was his turn. That’s the way this thing works. When your number’s called, you know it. But somehow, things aren’t working out the way we all expected for Mitt Romney.
It was a cast of nobodies. People we all laughed at and said didn’t stand a chance against the machine that is the Romney campaign. One by one they dropped until the most astonishing cast of losers stood against Romney: a fat man without a moral backbone, an old man with caterpillar eyebrows and a guy whose name is now synonymous with a frothy byproduct of anal sex. There was no way these guys could even muster up a hiccup to Romney, let alone fortify against him and create Romney’s Last Stand. But that is exactly what they did. And now with the Convention just short months away, Tampa doesn’t look so promising to Romney anymore.
The race boiled down to Romney and his apparent arch nemesis Rick Santorum. The two have been trading victories back and forth. And while Romney has a stronger foothold for now, Santorum is making sure Romney gets nothing easy. And then there’s the other guys: the fact that neither Newt Gingrich nor Ron Paul will drop out of the race keeps disrupting that which we had all thought was coming: Romney’s nomination.
The clear path we once thought we were on has become something completely and wholly unrecognizable. And the terrible nightmare we’ve gone through already may become even more fiendish as the likelihood of a brokered convention seems ever more possible. This is where no candidate gets the majority of the delegates by the convention, and a new round of voting begins in which anyone can enter. Anyone including former candidates and even non candidates like Sarah Palin could swoop in and steal the nomination.
A brokered convention will most likely occur since both the Gingrich and Paul campaigns refuse to die. In fact, Gingrich has made it clear he wants to align with Santorum and use their combined delegates to ensure that Romney doesn’t win. If Romney can’t win the nomination on his own, he will never win at a brokered convention. Every delegate he misses is another nail in his campaign’s coffin. And it looks like Santorum has the hammer and Gingrich has the nails.
Poor, poor, pitiful Mitt. Fate has dealt him a cruel hand. He waited patiently for his turn, but the gods of politics may have snatched his chance away from him. Through no real fault of his own, Romney has been broken. He still has a chance, but it shrinks every day. It shrinks every hour and every minute of the day. He can feel the tentacles tightening around him even now. The question is: what is he willing to do to win? And how much longer can he go on bleeding like this?
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