Not So Super Tuesday

Well, unfortunately the Republican party seems to have been split. Huckabee, unsurprisingly, swept the Bible Belt states of Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Tennessee, and West Virginia, most likely stealing quite a bit of Mitt Romney's thunder. Of course, Romney did not turn out too poorly himself, garnering about 7 states to bring him to 269 delegates. Its going to be tough from here on out though, as McCain has about half of the delegates he needs to clinch the nomination.

I'm not really sure what happened. It seemed like most of the conservatives I've heard (personally and calling into talk radio) were ardently against McCain and tended toward Romney over Huckabee. It is disappointing because Americans seem to either be uninformed, apathetic, just plain stupid, or some combination of the three when it comes to voting. The economy has consistently been the key issue for the past few months, yet the candidate who has admitted to having fairly limited knowledge in the way of economics is poised to win the Republican nomination for President. That does not bode well for the Republican party or America.

Which is why I'm supporting Romney. He has the business experience, much of it in taking faltering companies and returning them to their prior glory, that "that other malfunctioning corporation called the USA" could use a healthy dose of. While I've always been of the opinion, unlike so many others out there, that the President and/or Congress have little to do with the performance of the economy, I do believe that they can create incentives to a certain degree that can stimulate businesses and consumers to do things that will make the economy grow. Bush's tax cuts are a good example of this. Businesses and consumers will almost always make better use of money than the government, whether that is measured in return on investment or utility.

Luckily, Romney's pockets are fairly deep, thanks again to his background in business. So, I'm not losing hope yet, despite how far Romney has to go after a fairly disappointing Super Tuesday.