If the race for the Republican presidential nomination were only decided by islands, Mitt Romney would be unstoppable. After racking up wins in Hawaii, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, the former governor cruised to an easy win in Puerto Rico yesterday.
And while it stands to reason Romney will pick up additional delegates anywhere he can — Puerto Rico has 20 delegates, and the former governor will likely get all of them — his reaction to the victory was rather amusing.
“Those people who don’t think that Latinos will vote for a Republican need to take a look at Puerto Rico,” Romney said from a suburb north of Chicago. “I intend to become our nominee and I intend to get Latino voters to vote for a Republican and take back the White House.
That’s a nice spin, I suppose, but there’s no reason for anyone to take this seriously.
For one thing, Romney was practically a shoo-in in Puerto Rico. As Ed Kilgore explained, Romney endorsed statehood, was endorsed by Puerto Rico’s governor, and was against Rick Santorum, who spent much of the last week doing damage control after offending Puerto Ricans.









