The line on cable news Tuesday night to explain away the irony that former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney lost the Minnesota and Colorado caucuses, two contests that he won in the 2008 campaign, was that back then Romney was the conservative alternative to Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and that now various candidates are succeeding as the conservative alternative to Romney.
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