THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Mitt Romney won resoundingly in the Wisconsin primary and two other contests tonight, all but stamping out the embers of the Republican primary even as he lit the flames of his general election campaign.
The former Massachusetts governor completely ignored his Republican rivals as he claimed victory, elevating himself above his party's nominating process to focus instead on President Barack Obama, whom he accused of engineering a "Government-Centred Society" at the expense of American individualism.
Casting himself as the champion of "free people and free enterprise", Mr Romney sought to marshal both businesses and families against the President's model of interventionist government.
"In Barack Obama’s Government-Centred Society, the government must do more because the economy is doomed to do less," he told a cheering crowd in Milwaukee. "When you attack business and vilify success, you will have less business and less success."
Mr Romney attacked the Democratic incumbent as an "out of touch liberal" and vowed that if elected he would help build "the greatest America we have ever known, where prosperity is grown and shared, not limited and divided." » | Raf Sanchez | Washington | Wednesday, April 04, 2012
