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Michelle Oddis, one of Human Event's most clear-eyed and astute politics parsers, takes a step back from the conventional wisdom political obituary writing on Mitt Romney--which, no doubt, has a very good chance of being accurate--to look at the potential of a "slow and steady" candidate in a Republican race "with no front-runner, no loser suffering fatal damage and no real momentum behind any of the candidates."

In a race that is still wide open, Romney--after two "losses"--has the most delegates to send to the Republican National Convention in September. Although Romney could lose momentum by not pulling in the "big win," by remaining a national constant he becomes more of a threat than Huckabee, or McCain who have single wins and less delegates