[cripplecreek]

I think Santorum has a fair chance in Michigan. Romney’s base of support is slowly going the way of the dinosaur. If nothing else, Santorum will snatch some much needed delegates away from Romney.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Rick: as genuine a person as Mitt is a slick phony . People can pick it up.

[PapaNew]

So what's this goofy primary delegate count look like now? Any new primary-by-primary projections?

Who wins a brokered convention? (Palin I hope.)

[dps.inspect]

Gawd, Romney is a slimy loogie...

[ReneeLynn]

I would relish the sight of the wheels falling off Romney’s buggy.

[svcw]

Santorum or Gingrich, one and two would be perfect. I want Romney bitched slapped.

[napscoordinator]

This primary is going even better than I had hoped. My gosh and some folks were balking at me saying, “President Santorum”. Boy are they eating crow.

[Darren McCarty]

In Michigan you get delegates per congressional district, as well as at large. I don't know if it is by old or new districts.

If I'm him, I'd be setting up shop along my fellow Italians in populist Northern Macomb County.

[Qbert]

"Romney will have to come up with a positive reason to vote for him between now and Michigan,” said GOP strategist Ford O’Connell, who is unaffiliated in the race"

If he had one, we would've heard it by now. He doesn't- and that's why he has to rely on his crutch of trashing his opponents.

[sarasmom]

I was born and raised in Michigan.
I moved out of there as soon as I could, and never went back.

The Romney name in Michigan is not one that should sell well nowadays, outside of Detroit, and the various unindicted criminal union organizations.
Even with a false “R” designation.

I stopped caring long ago.
The citizens of Michigan made their bed, and they can either lie in it, or attempt to wash their corrupt sheets clean and try again.

It will be vaguely interesting to see what they do.

[Mariner]

How cute.

Ricky is pretending to be a winner.

However, it'll break the hearts of his supporters when they see the torrent of smears, some true and some false. All mis-characterized.

He's about the learn about the POTUS vetting process. If you don't have $100mil in the bank and promises for another $500mil to $1bil, you are roadkill.

I don't think he can pull 1/2 of potential GOP voters in the general and I don't think he'll pull 1/2 of GOP voters in the primaries.

JMHO.

[VinL]

Based on the article, I would like to believe that this decision for Rick in Mich and Newt in Ariz was a plan on their part. Romney had a good chance of taking both, but his task becomes that much harder if he’s fighting only one conservative on both fronts.

[montag813]

Lots of Catholics in Michigan - strong for Rick. there are also a bunch of Mormons - descendants of former polygamists jailed by the Feds’ Edmunds Act in the 1880s. I like Santorum’s chances.

[CharlesWayneCT]

With Rick Santorum, [Romney's] got to tell you that this new ruby-red Michigan apple, this new, bright candidate who has captured the conservative imagination, is not what he appears, and that’s a much tougher job,” Castellanos said.

Romney's got a few unwitting helpers here though.

[douginthearmy]

Have either of these two won a republican state?