After enduring day-after-day of contact with a cheesy grits-eating, NASCAR-loving, y'all-saying away game crowd, Mitt Romney must be tremendously relieved to be
back home:
A day after losing Mississippi and Alabama to Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney took his campaign to a state where he had no public schedule, no time carved out to mingle with voters, and no rallies or town halls.
While Mr. Santorum and Newt Gingrich hunted for votes in Puerto Rico and Illinois, Mr. Romney traveled to New York City to raise money and reassure top Republican donors — a constituency that favors his candidacy, and one perhaps most rattled by his inability to win the confidence of the party’s conservative base.
Although Romney might have been safe from the
garbage bag-wearing riffraff, it wasn't all
champagnecaffeine-free Diet Coke and caviar, and not just because none of his NFL and NASCAR team-owning buddies were there. You see, Romney's donors are worried—and he had to reassure them.
But while the events — breakfast and lunch fund-raisers at the Waldorf-Astoria and an evening gala in Connecticut — raised about $3 million, Mr. Romney faced lingering questions about his candidacy.
“Are you still able to pick up delegates when you don’t win a state?” asked one worried guest at the breakfast event. Of course, Mr. Romney assured him.
“You may not be declared the winner, but in these proportional states, you still pick up delegates,” Mr. Romney said, according to people who attended the event.
So Romney isn't backing off his
winning-by-losing strategy, no matter how silly it makes him sound. And why should he? If there's anybody who knows how to win by losing, it's Mitt Romney. It's the same strategy that allowed him to make millions at Bain Capital, even when he destroyed jobs and turned companies belly up. And if you criticize him for it, you hate capitalism.