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<\/a>It is \u201cimpossible to think of the GOP race without stifling a yawn,\u201d wrote the editorial staff of the liberal Daily Kos <\/em>news site<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cTo no one\u2019s surprise, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney received the final jewel in the crown of his nomination quest on Tuesday \u2014 Texas awarded him 97 delegates in Tuesday\u2019s primary,\u201d wrote Jean MacKenzie of the Tucson Sentinel<\/em><\/a> in an article headlined: \u201cTexas primary: The big yawn.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cYou didn’t think you needed a yawn, but,\u201d reported John Dickerson for Slate<\/em> magazine<\/a>, \u201cRomney crossed the magic threshold of 1,144 \u2013 the number of delegates he needs to win the GOP nomination.\u201d<\/p>\n CBS News,<\/a> the Huffington Post<\/a> and a number of other news outlets reported that Romney wasn\u2019t even in Texas for the win, but instead was off wooing Donald Trump, who instead embarrassed him by surfacing more rumors that Barack Obama\u2019s birth certificate is bogus and he\u2019s ineligible to be in office.<\/p>\n Then a day or two later, Solon<\/em> magazine revealed that Romney was searching for a vice presidential running mate who is \u201csafe and, by design, unexciting \u2014 a deliberate anti-Palin.\u201d The prized pick would be, according to an anonymous Romney official: an \u201cincredibly boring white guy.\u201d<\/p>\n An incredibly boring white guy?<\/em><\/p>\n Romney won over the Republican establishment by ignoring the passionate urgency of the Tea Partiers. As a counter to the charismatic and charming Barack Obama,\u00a0he was\u00a0a candidate whose lack of passion or spontaneity surpassed even that of his father, 1960s perennial presidential hopeful George Romney. Recently, a\u00a0supporter told Mitt all about her financial woes. \u201cAt such a moment, Clinton might have offered her a big bear hug,\u201d reported Stephanie Mencimer for the arch-liberal Mother Jones magazine.<\/a> \u201cRomney offered her cash, pulling $50 to $60 out of his pocket and thrusting it upon her.\u201d<\/p>\n Instead of wiping a George W. Bush tear from his cheek, Romney \u201chanded a wad of cash\u201d to the woman, reported Emily Friedman for ABC News.<\/a> \u201c55-year-old Ruth Williams says she had been following the Romney campaign since he arrived in the state on Jan. 11, when she said she received a message from God to track him down.<\/p>\n \u201cI was on the highway praying and said, \u2018God just show me how to get [my] lights on,\u2019 and I pulled up to a stop sign and his bus was there,\u201d said Williams, who has been unemployed since last October. \u201cAnd then God said, \u2018Follow the bus,\u2019 and I followed the bus to the airport.<\/p>\n \u201cGod didn\u2019t tell me to go to nobody else, he told me to pray for Romney,\u201d said Williams. \u201cI listened to the Lord.\u201d<\/p>\n The rest of conservative America seems to be waiting for a similar word from on high.<\/p>\n Atlanta talk show host Erick Erickson \u201cand other keepers of the conservative flame have been trying for more than a year to muscle Mitt aside in favor of someone \u2013 anyone\u201d who wasn\u2019t Mitt Romney, reported Newsweek\u2019s Howard Kurtz.<\/a> \u201cNow, there is no Plan B left, no savior waiting in the wings. It is a moment of truth for the dead-enders, who have to decide whether to relent and rally around Romney or hang back, even if it means helping Barack Obama win a second term.<\/p>\n \u201cThe unrelenting anti-Romney hostility has ruptured the conservative media movement \u2014 a movement that has come to define, and in some ways dominate, the modern Republican Party,\u201d wrote Kurtz.<\/p>\n Rich Lowry, editor of the conservative National Review, <\/em>doesn\u2019t hold back when it comes to Romney: \u201cAnything he does, there\u2019s an automatic assumption that it\u2019s the synthetic product of calculation. There\u2019s something lacking at the core.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAs the alternatives have faded,\u201d continues Kurtz, \u201cLowry is trying to make peace with the idea of Romney as nominee: \u2018If I have to manufacture enthusiasm, I\u2019ll happily do so.\u2019 Yet in the next breath, he frames the choice as \u2018a flawed candidate running against a very flawed president.\u2019<\/p>\n Another conspicuous holdout is Bill Kristol, editor of the Weekly Standard, <\/em>who does not disguise his distrust of Romney. Radio host Laura Ingraham openly questions whether Romney can beat Obama. Rush Limbaugh, writes Kurtz, \u201chas played golf with the candidate but tells listeners, \u2018Romney is not a conservative … He comes across as the prototypical rich Republican.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cRomney’s nomination has basically been inevitable since, oh, 2008ish,\u201d writes New York magazine\u2019s Noreen Malone.<\/a><\/em> \u201cBut no one in his party has ever seemed particularly enthused about it, leading to the line-’em-up and knock-’em-down Cinderella stories of the GOP primary season, and the wishful thinking about late entrances from Chris Christie or Mitch Daniels.\u201d<\/p>\n