Ball 3

Rick Santorum’s trifecta primary sweep last week proves that Mitt Romney faces a huge uphill battle in winning the Presidency.  Romney faces a multitude of problems that are holding him back in the polls.  As Charles P. Pierce of Esquire writes , the Romney of today no longer resembles the former Massachusetts governor: Romney's description of his time as governor up here in the Commonwealth was hilarious to those of us who remember how hard he worked with a Democratic legislature to get his health-care law passed. It was hilarious to hear him talk about he was a "severely conservative governor," when we recalled how he worked with Sal DiMasi, the now-convicted Speaker of the Massachusetts House, to get Romneycare passed in time to be able to run on it in 2008. It was hilarious to hear him talk about how he presented balanced budgets up here (Pro tip: Like any Massachusetts governor, Willard had to do that — it's the law) and how he did it without raising tax...