ROMNEY GETS BACK ON TRACK

Mitt Romney began the process of getting back on the right track to the nomination this weekend. First, he won the Maine caucuses, with Ron Paul finishing second and Santorum a distant third (and Gingrich an even more distant fourth). Ron Paul's people were hoping to get their first win in Maine, but it was not to be. Second, Romney won the straw poll at the CPAC conference. Although it does not get him any delegates, it does indicate that he has some strength with conservative activists inside the party. He desperately needs to re-establish the sense in the party that he is the inevitable nominee and, more importantly, he is the best man to take the fight to Obama and the Democrats in the Fall.

Now it is on to Arizona and Michigan at the end of the month, and what could be a crucial televised debate in Georgia on March 1st.