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One thing you must agree is this is a veritable roller coaster, this 2012 primary fiasco. Whereas just a few months ago, Newt Gingrich was written off as done, finished, kaput! (and about 80% of Free Republic cheered it on and said things like "Get out of here, Newt!") and he also had a similiar setback when his whole campaign team resigned, a mere three weeks ago the press heralded him as a dramatic front runner with a stunning win in South Carolina. I have the newspapers saved. FReerepublic by and large was ebullient and pumped up. For sure this man was going to win, was going to clean Romney's clock. Now Newt appears to be sinking again, it is a serious situation where he could be outpaced by Romney and sidelined for good, maybe even Santorum would emerge as the conservative final hope to finish off Romney, then again, Newt Gingrich could resurrect again and be in the lead, with Romney licking his wounds either over something stupid he said, or a poor debate performance, then again Santorum could run out of money -- or he could hit a series of dramatic home runs in debates and pick up even more conservative endorsements like he has been getting of late (and leading in Missouri, a not too shabby state).

I am not willing to rule anything in or out. In my opinion, the nominee of this party could be either Santorum, Gingrich or Romney at this point. I discount Paul. And finally, the nominee may in fact be none of those three men. It is crazy and expect Gingrich to be on top again, then vanquished again, then again re-emergent. It is volatile and highly possible. I still work and hold out hope that my choice, Rick Santorum, will be the nominee as my own comprehensive issues/voting record/personal morals/likability/fidelity scorecard on him vs. the other three has him in the top slot (and how my political enemies, the progressives, seem to truly loathe and ridicule Santorum the most, especially the anti-life and anti-marriage lavender mafia lobby). He was never my initial first choice of all the candidates that entered the race. I had it down to him, Bachmann or Cain, and on the whole for a variety of reasons, went with Cain as I saw him highly effective and gained intelligence that the Obots were scared to death of him. (They fixed THAT didn't they!!?) Your mileage of course might vary. I think perhaps our only common ground is we want neither Romney nor Paul to gain the nomination, and we so want Obama to be rendered a single term, with a sweep of the House and the Senate to reverse the train of our Republic before it goes over the cliff and into the abyss of irreversible Socialism.