I don't blame Noot for staying

[Laura PourMeADrink]

in. Leaving all their crazy ideas aside, I bet he looks at Santorum
and thinks.."there's no way this guy should be beating me. I am
his intellectual superior. I have the better background. He says super-crazy
stuff I would never say. (oops on the moon colony). Surely they will realize that soon."

As for Rick...hope he stays in til the bitter end. All Noot and Rick's
rantings water down Romney's message and actually indirectly attach
to Romney. They are all becoming one. Good for us.

[muriel_volestrangler]

1. He came last in Illinois

When Ron Paul beats you (and it's not as if Illinois is near Paul's home state, either), and you get just 8% of the vote, it's time to plan the next career move. If he thinks he can sell more books this way, and pay off the campaign debts/Tiffany bills by staying in, he will. If there's more money to be made as a Fox talking head, he'll do that.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

2. Oh, I agree..rationally, he should...but I do understand how he must feel

personally. I think a lot of it too is probably all the past volatility and thinking - I soared once, maybe
it will happen again. But it looks like Romney has the mojo. It's going to be a four years that
feels like 10 year if Romney beats all the odds and wins. I already literally can not stand to hear
his voice. I had to scream at my husband to turn it off last night when he was giving his victory
speech.

BTW, did Noot speak last night? And, why has Paul stopped speaking after these primaries?

[denem]

3. As a (doomed) candidate, Newt will get to make a speech

at Tampa. Newt is a charitable guy. Right?

Wrong. Think about version II of 'This is the day my party found it's soul'
courtesy of Ted Kennedy, only meaner.

Newt and Rock HATE Romney with a passion that Mitt will never understand.
'If you burn a guy in a takeover, that's OK, you will never see him again'.

Romney will see Rick and Newt again.
It will not be pretty,

[Laura PourMeADrink]

4. I wonder if being asked to be his running mate would trump that hatred? No way

in hell would he pick Newt....he doesn't have enough strength except in GA which they will
win anyway.

If you think of it that way, Newt and Rick are only winning where we would likely lose to
Romney anyway...with a couple exceptions. He doesn't need a northeasterner like himself.
So, what does Romney need to add?

Perhaps a "liberal" tea bagger to molify those crazies and solidfy the party? Or since
they are sinking with hispanics, a hispanic? Or since they are sinking with women,
a woman? But, he can't pick a pro-choice woman...so she would have to be a
wingnut, and a wingnut wouldn't appeal to the average woman.

[denem]

5. That's Michele Bachmann

with life vs death marching orders not to go rogue.

Michele meet Karl. He has something very important to say to you.