Game On: Romney Vs Obama

Reality has dawned on Newt and it is being reported that he will officially suspend his campaign and endorse Mitt Romney on May 1. Why he feels the need to wait a week is beyond me.

It is also being reported that Rick Santorum will meet with Mr. Romney next week, after he stopped just short of endorsing him last night. That just leaves Uncle Ron and we all know that he won't get out, but neither will he be any obstacle to Mr. Romney. Neither man will release their delegates (which gives them power to set things in the party platform) so Mr. Romney will still have to wait until the end of May to be declared the nominee mathematically as noted in the last post.

But for all intents and purposes, we can mark today as the true official start of the general election. Technically we could have counted the official start as two weeks ago when Mr. Santorum suspended his campaign, but Mr. Romney did still have to go through the motions and there was a question about how quickly the consolidation would take. But that is all but over now.

So how will the fight go? Dirty. We've already seen a glimpse of how the campaign will go with the whole Romney's dog on the car roof/Obama ate dog nonsense. Mr. Romney apparently gave a decent attack speech last night and we can imagine that even now the Obama campaign is dusting off the book containing all the dirt that's been collected on Mr. Romney since 1994. One can only imagine the volume of mud and s*** that we'll be dragged through in this fight.