Primary Politics, NASCAR Style

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Duane R. Patterson just penned a sweet story at Townhall.com.

As many of you might remember, I have a predisposition to following NASCAR every year. Many, including John Podhoretz, would say that's a character flaw. But nevertheless, there are some parallels between the NASCAR season and the presidential primary race, especially in this first month of the long campaign....

I skipped much of his story to get to my favorite paragraphs:

Mitt Romney has the money equivalent of being a NASCAR organization like Hendrick or Roush Racing, meaning he's going to be able to compete through the long season with a quality car built by a quality team. Huckabee and McCain are running cars in the equivalent of a single-car owner, meaning not heavily financed. These individual teams in NASCAR will win a race here and there, but over the course of a 31 week season, the lack of money and investment takes its toll, and the teams with more financing always rise to the top.

At the end of the night, all the people who thought it was time for Romney to give up after the loss in New Hampshire have to think again about the coronation of John McCain as the GOP nominee. McCain was supposed to win Michigan because of the independent and Democratic meddling in this open primary state. But a funny thing happened along the way. Mitt Romney became a much better candidate.

You got that right, friend!