Team Romney: Walk like a man

The hit musical “Jersey Boys” is currently playing in Washington. If you haven’t seen it, check it out. It’s a great show depicting the rough-and-tumble life of Frankie Valli — frontman for the Four Seasons beginning in 1960.

Early in the group’s career, 1963 to be exact, Valli released his third of several No. 1 hits — “Walk Like a Man.”

That should be the current theme song of the Romney campaign. Candidate Romney is doing all the right things, and getting none of the credit for it.

He ran a tight operation in Iowa — with the ground game and institutional backing of key figures to secure the first-place finish. And while we’re at it, folks, Romney won the Iowa caucuses. He didn’t “tie” anyone. He won. Yes, it was a close race. But do you think the press would be saying Romney “tied” anyone if Rick Santorum or Ron Paul had finished first? Heck no. They would have pilloried the Massachusetts local for not finishing stronger and finishing the deed. That’s biased journalism, if you ask me, and suggests the media wants to make the race even closer than it already is. And believe me, it’s close enough, as the results proved.

The same criticism can’t be leveled at Santorum’s camp. Make no mistake, he made a respectable showing, even with meager campaign resources. But the media can’t use that as a highlight for one candidate (Santorum), and treat it as a negative for another (Romney), by suggesting he is somehow buying this nomination.

So Gov. Romney should keep on doing what he’s doing. Take some “Jersey Boys” advice and walk like a man. Act as if he owns this nomination, and then go out there and show his fellow Republicans he’s the man for this job.