Delegate count as of tonight:
Romney 19, Gingrich 17, Santorum 12, Paul 3.
Romney wont leave but he probably is done.
The real question is WTH is alterPaul sticking around for?
Paul is sticking around to push his message. On one, he is getting traction that is healthy.
The Fed is not good for this country.
Florida I think in no way is a shoe-in for Gingrich. It may well end as a three way split between the top three, particularly after the large part of the iceberg yet unseen about Newt comes out and comes out hard in the next 10 days, sad to say for him. If I were a conservative I would not be so hot to trot to abandon a Plan B, (a alternative lifeboat) such as Rick Santorum who has far less baggage than Newt which is coming out, and then we are all just stuck with Romney and Paul in the race. Some choice. Think weeks out ahead folks, this race changes on a dime and it will do so again in the future no doubt. PS CNN sure is opening their mouth and giving away the whole Obama General Election playbook plan, amazingly so, regardless who the GOP nominee.
Paul will run as a third party candidate.
According to Dr. Krauthammer, Ron Paul is staying in to make sure the Republican big tent still covers Libertarianism. I think he’s right.
As a kid in high school, I was a Libertarian, too, but then joined the College Republicans because I believed in Frank Meyers’ and Ronald Reagan’s fusionism: social, economic, and foreign policy conservatives in an ‘iron triangle’ of mutual support. Ron Paul has a very old-fashioned idea of what conservative means in each of those categories, much as I did.
However, Libertarians would rather be right than popular, which makes the perfect the enemy of the good. That’s the fundamental problem with Ron Paul, but also why he won’t get out.