Boringly, Mitt Romney is the Republican Party’s Presidential Nominee

“Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.” So said Sherlock Holmes and he might have been talking about the 2012 race for the Republican party’s presidential nomination. The impossible candidates have been weeded out and the only one who remains in play is Mitt Romney. He must, ergo, be the winner and nominee. This is not just because he won the Iowa caucuses but because of how he did so and, importantly, the identity of the other candidates who “got a ticket out of Iowa”.

This is tedious for the media who desperately need new stories to keep the game running for as long as is possible. Watch out for a slew of these “game-changing” theories, positing a Romney collapse or defeat somewhere and a sudden, surprise, resurgence for Jon Huntsman or Rick Perry. (These being the only remaining candidates who, despite campaign records of uninterrupted failure are the only remaining even semi-credible opponents).