What's going on?!

Newt Gingrich is the talk of the month. Doctor Ron Paul is gaining momentum. Michelle Bachmann is collecting her guns and firing back. Rick Perry...whatever. What a shout! What a fight! And winner is...

The media keeps pushing alternatives to Mitt Romney not only because Democrats are terrified of running against him, but also because they want to keep Republicans fighting, allowing them the luxury to get a four-month jump on us. Meanwhile, everyone knows the nominee is going to be Romney. I'll bet my own ten grand against your buck.

That's great, if you think the most important issues in this election are defeating Obama and repealing Obamacare, period. If he'll win, we'll be carving his image on Mount Rushmore. Seriously. Because then we'll have stopped the greatest disaster since Pearl Harbor, called Second Obama Presidency.

Why? He is not part of the Washington establishment, so he won't be caught taking money from Freddie Mac or cutting commercials with Nancy Pelosi. Also, Romney will be the first Republican presidential nominee since Ronald Reagan who can actually talk. Liberals are going to have to figure out how to run against a Republican who isn't a tongue-tied marble-mouth.

As we've known for years, his negatives are: Romneycare and Mormonism. With cheery anticipation we look forward to an explosion of news stories on some of the stranger aspects of Mormonism. These articles have already been written, but they're not scheduled for release until the day Romney wraps up the nomination.

The Democrats' only argument for the big-eared scarecrow who's nearly wrecked the country, is that you must be a racist if you oppose Obama. Though in the past the Mormon Church had problems with blacks, there's no evidence that this was a policy fiercely pushed by Mitt. To the contrary, when his father, George Romney, was governor of Michigan, he was the most pro-civil rights elected official in the entire country, far ahead of any so-called "progressive" Democrat.

No one is worried that Romney will double-cross us on repealing Obamacare. We worry that Romneycare will make it harder for him to get elected. But, again, Romney is the articulate Republican. He's already explained how mandating health insurance in one particular wealthy, liberal Northeastern state is different from inflicting it on the entire country. Our Constitution establishes a federalist system that allows experimentation with different ideas in the individual states.

As governor, Romney didn't have the ability to change federal laws requiring hospital emergency rooms to treat every illegal alien, drug dealer and vagrant who walked in the door, then sending the bill to taxpayers. (Although David Axelrod, Michelle Obama , Eric Whitaker and Valerie Jarrett did figure out a way to throw poor blacks out of the University of Chicago Medical Center.)

The Heritage Foundation, a leading conservative think tank, supported Romneycare at the time. By the way, Mr. Gingrich supported it, too.

It's a sure thing that Romney is not going to get to the White House and announce, "The first thing I'm going to do is implement that fantastic national health care plan signed by my pal, Barack!"

Instead of sitting on our derrieres, wishing Ronald Reagan were around, or chasing the latest mechanical rabbit flashed by the media, conservatives ought to start rallying around Romney as the only Republican who has a shot at beating Obama. We'll attack him when he's president, I promise.