[johnthebaptistmoore]

IMHO, Donald Trump was planning to run for ‘12 POTUS as an Independent, no matter what. Donald is a leftist Democrat pretending to be a conservative Republican (NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg does much of the same thing.). Rep. Ron Paul is so unpredictable that I’m not so sure what he would do, even though Ron has said, several times, that he wouldn’t run for ‘12 POTUS as an Independent or from a third political party but would stay in the GOP. I’m, still, profoundly frustrated that BO is, probably, the worst POTUS, ever, but the GOP may end up losing the ‘12 POTUS race to BO, anyways!

[CainConservative]

Since the nominee will either be Newt, Santorum, or God forbid, Willard, Trump will NOT run as he has explained again and again on Fox, but Uncle Nutjob WILL.

[Daveinyork]

Wait a minute. Are you saying that Romney isn’t the most conservative electible candidate? I’m shocked, shocked!!

[mcjordansc]

Trump likes the publicity that talking about a run brings, but will never walk away from his businesses to actually run.

Ron Paul will not run as a third party candidate because that would mess with Rand Paul’s future.

[McGavin999]

Actually, a 3rd party run would probably be the only way we could maintain a republican house and possibly gain a republican senate. If Romney is the moninee, there won't be enough republicans going to the polls to vote down ticket. If there was an alternative to vote for, they would at least be able to make sure the republicans maintained the house and possibly gained the senate.

Yes, Bam Bam would be president but at least we'd control the house and senate, otherwise we lose all three.

[beaversmom]

I don’t think so. I think Trump likes to threaten on occasion to get his name back in the papers and as someone else made the point Rand Paul is an up and comer in the Republican party and daddy Paul doesn’t want to torpedo his career, but who knows?

[SWAMPSNIPER]

It may be my paranoid imagination but for the last few days Boortz and Limbaugh seem to have developed an affection for Romney and are criticizing Newt a lot more.

It gets harder every day to know who to trust.

[Category Four]

Any independent run on the Right that pulls over 2-3% means four more years of the Empty Suit.

If we're anywhere still close to lucky at all, it'll only be four.