Romney Rises, Will Fall

Mitt Romney won the Republican Presidential Primary in Florida last night by a significant margin. Today, he's one step closer to the nomination and an inevitable face-off with President Barack Obama in November. While the election season has been a long, filled with more debates than should ever be necessary, it seems the predictable candidate, Romney, will climb to the top of the totem pole for a party that has been criticized long and hard over the past 12 years. The question is whether or not Romney can break that mold and show what the Republican party truly is or not. I think the answer, strictly, is no. I don't believe he is the candidate for the Republican Party, but he's the best one running this time around. Similar situations have happened before, but this one seems almost like a joke to most people. When looking for a Republican candidate, one would want the passion of a New Gingrich, but without the walk-in closet full of skeletons. While I believe Romney is a good speaker, he is someone who strikes me as ill-passionate for what he believes in, a person who will take any position to get what he wants, and will keep trying until things go his way. Romney is a politician's politician, through and though. He looks like someone you'd buy a used car from, a fraud only looking for a cheap buck. He's really the only candidate the Republicans have right now though because some either don't want it, like New Jersey Governor Christie, or those who have poor name association, like Jeb Bush, who would be the best candidate if it weren't for his last name and relationship to the last two Bush Presidents. Is Mitt Romney the Republican candidate that can do the job this fall? No, because he's not really a Republican. But he's the one that will be on the ballot this November, and Republicans will vote for him no matter what.