Good Week for Romney

          Mitt Romney has had a good week on the campaign trail, no women have accused him of harassment and he remembered what he wanted to say during the debate today.  Both Cain and Perry are wishing they could push the reset button. 

          As anyone who watches the news knows, Herman Cain stands accused of multiple acts of sexual harassment.  He has emphatically denied the allegations so either he or the women are lying.  In a recent column, Ann Coulter asks why all the allegations come from Cain’s three-year-tenure at the National Restaurant Association, no allegations from before, none afterwards.  Coulter also alleges connections between Cain’s accusers and David Axelrod, a senior advisor to President Obama.  The truth will surely come out in the coming weeks and if there is substance to the allegations, I believe it will be the end of Cain’s campaign.  Conservatives will not be as forgiving as Democrats were for President Clinton.

          Rick Perry has been lagging in the polls largely because he seems unable to articulate his message during a debate.  This week that weakness may have ended his campaign.  In the latest debate he wanted to name three Departments of government that he would eliminate.  He name two, Commerce and Education, and spent the better part of a minute stumbling along, trying to remember, while supplying material for The Daily Show and Saturday Night Live. 

          The election is still one year away but, because there was no bad news about him and he continued to do well in the debates, the winner this week was Mitt Romney.  However, as Bob Dole demonstrated in 1996, it is easier to win the nomination than the general election.  Dole may have been the pick of the Country Club Republicans, but he did not inspire the base.  That tepid enthusiasm remains the Achilles heel of the Romney campaign.  He may be better than Obama, but any of the Republicans running would clear that low hurdle.

Update on Friday, November 11, 2011 at 8:53PM by Kyle Pratt

The original video I used was from CNBC, but they had the segment pulled from YouTube so I swapped in a CNN clip.