VERY interesting to see Romney already running against Obama

VERY interesting to see Romney already running against Obama (www.nytimes.com/2008/01/06/us/politics/06campaign.html)!  He's smart enough to see the writing on the wall.

Mr. Romney invoked Mr. Obama’s victory in Iowa to a Republican audience Saturday morning as evidence that the nation was looking for change and that Iowans had rejected longtime Washington hands like Mrs. Clinton and Mr. McCain.

Mr. Romney warned his audience that unless the Republicans put up a candidate who could counter Mr. Obama’s message of change, “the same thing that happened to Hillary Clinton will happen to our nominee.”

“He just trounced her there because all that experience isn’t what they wanted to hear about — they wanted to see somebody who said they would do something new and change Washington,” Mr. Romney said.

“And,” he added, “we cannot afford Barack Obama as the next president. He’s a very nice fellow and he’s a well-spoken fellow, but he’s never done it.”