Mitt Romney is still extremely likely to get the GOP nomination, but it looks like he will have to run in the general election as an Independent. He certainly seems to have no home in the Republican Party.”

“Though he still has the support of the party “establishment” (which almost assures him the nomination),by rights Romney really should be following Sen. Olympia Snowe out the same door through which so many others of that extinct political class—centrist Republicans— have been forced to exit, permanently exiled by a party that they no longer recognize and that no longer recognizes them.