The Coming Week

With John McCain winning Florida, he steals Mitt Romney's momentum and runs with it into Super Tuesday. Romney supporters have this one last chance to stop him and get our guy in as the nominee. This coming week we need to have the conversation with our fellow Republicans -- because the liberal media loves McCain and annointed him the front-runner long ago -- that Romney is our best hope for turning Washington around and stabilizing the economy; not McCain.

Romney cheerleader Hugh Hewitt has good analysis on his blog here. It's a good post; here's a choice quote:

Despite the outcome in Florida, Republicans across the nation should spend the
next week thinking long and hard about the demoralizing prospect of a McCain
nomination.

He also succinctly sums up Romney's qualifications and echoes my feeling that it's now or never:

Mitt Romney is a better candidate than he lets on. His business acumen has
hardly been explored in this campaign, at least not early enough. He is, as they
say in Boston, wicked smart. Of all the candidates running, it is hardest to see
the colossal managerial failures of Katrina happening under his watch. His plan
wasn’t perfect, but I like the fact that he’s a Republican who’s tackled the
health care issue. He can communicate about matters of war and peace, and his
instincts are sound. He could position himself as a clean break on the economy.
Attributes he had to soft sell in the primary campaign would provide attractive
contrasts to Hillary Clinton in a general election. And in Presidential
elections, Governors beat Senators. Romney is our last chance of getting that
historically winning combination.

I will be at the newly established California Romney Headquarters tomorrow night watching the debate in Simi Valley and then making phone calls. I'm doing my part to try to win this election for conservatives. At this point, every conservative needs to be asking himself whether he or she is. It's time to fish or cut bait.