Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney waves during a campaign stop at William Jewell College on Tuesday, March 13, 2012 in Liberty, Mo.
The mantra of the 2012 campaign ("Mitt Romney is a weak front runner") is truer than ever: he's still weak, and he's still the front runner. Thanks to Rick Santorum's impressive victories in Alabama and Mississippi, Romney remains winless in the Bible Belt South, which is the Republican Party's base, and faces resistance from GOP social conservatives. Romney's effort to force his rivals out of the race by noting that he will almost certainly have a plurality of the delegates needed for the nomination by the Tampa convention is now deader than Elvis. With Newt Gingrich determined to stay in the...
