Mitt's out!

Looks like Mitt took the hint, capping off a very bad week for New England. America didn't want him and good riddance. From the start, Mitt Romney never understood why people didn't like him, including the conservatives in his own party he tried so hard to court. The primary problem with Mitt is that he never had a clear message for his campaign. And I believe that came out of the fact that he had capricious beliefs.

When he first declared his candidacy, he basically abdicated everything he believed in when he was governor of Massachusetts. After that, Romney obviously had no qualms pumping so much of his personal money into his own campaign. It's true that you need loads of money to run for president, but when you are your own biggest donor, you certainly lose that populist vibe. He was spending immense amounts of money per delegate. It was a strategy he could not maintain for the primaries, much less the actual election. After he failed to essentially pay off Iowa and New Hampshire, he resorted to labeling himself the "conservative" candidate. He even had the audacity to suggest Huckabee drop out. Before that, he was the "CEO" running for America's highest position. So first, he was gearing his campaign towards being the salve to our economy, but then he decides he's going to be the self-labeled successor to the Reagan legacy. Then, after he got whupped on Tuesday, you see "Mitt for change" signs.

There lies the problem. Do you get a clear sense of what a candidate stands for if he or she keeps changing their central message? Of course not. It's like he looks at the polls and then pulls his ethos out of a hat. Principles shouldn't come from polls, but from within. Republicans could see that and hence decided to not vote for him. If he was the conservative candidate, then how come he did so poorly in the South? People could see through the fallacy.

Now, nothing stands in McCain's way. Huckabee will get trounced in non-Southern states and eventually drop out. That actually bodes not so well for the candidate to make it out of the Democratic primaries. Barack or Hillary will already be behind by the time the actual election season starts...