Romney: a candidate “so inevitable and so weak at the same time”

In a sketch last weekend following Mitt Romney’s win in Michigan, “Saturday Night Live” had its Romney character boast that it was another instance of voters saying of him, “Eh, I guess.”

“Eh, I guess” looks to be the motto he’ll have to try to ride to the nomination. It was an “eh” night for Romney, although he avoided catastrophe by pulling out a razor-thin win in Ohio where he was trailing most of the night.

Otherwise, he won one state where he used to be governor (Massachusetts), a small Northeastern state (Vermont), an essentially uncontested Southern state (Virginia),  a heavily Mormon state out West (Idaho) and Alaska. In Virginia, he couldn’t get to 60 percent against just Ron Paul. Rarely has a candidate seemed so inevitable and so weak at the same time.

Romney has always been the default candidate, dependent on discrediting the other candidates or having them discredit themselves before Republican voters turn to him. His two biggest initial threats, Rick Perry and Newt Gingrich, were highly vulnerable and either disappeared or rapidly diminished. Santorum looked like he was headed for the same fate, but has proven more resilient.

His performance has been amazing given Romney’s advantages. Romney is the only candidate who has bothered to or been capable of running a traditional presidential campaign. He built an organization, raised money, ran an opposition research shop, and garnered endorsements. He has relied on this machinery to see him through what has turned out to be more of a grind than he ever expected.

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