The problem is, he is screwing up Santorum in the process as collateral damage with this vote-split thing; the majority of commentators I have read see it as well. Only there is a strain, a minority viewpoint that somehow extrapolates his staying in actually keeps Romney from winning, but I think that is just glorified rationalizing with unsustainable arguments and numbers. What is sad about this windmill tilting is, as I expressed yesterday, the admirable, tough fighter Mr. Gingrich is not even eligible yet to have his name placed in GOP nomination at the Tampa convention per Rule 40 (b) at this time. Why would he have his delegates go there, often on their own dime nowadays, airfare, high gas prices to drive down from Georgia or South Carolina or elsewhere to Florida, hotel, food, pay for various parties, etc., but to sit on the convention floor and not be able to cast a valid vote for Gingrich during the roll call of the states. How could he do that do these people and distrupt their lives? For what greater cause?
It is unfathomable, but I guess some people will not let go of the Golden Ring they think they have in their hand, the Presidency, when they have wanted that for so long. Reading the tea leaves cannot be made in a direct appeal to the Speaker I am afraid. It needs to be made directly to his funders, and endorsers, people like Perry and Cain and Palin need to be contacted by the Conservative base to get with the program and get behind one single conservative left to deny Romney the nomination. Allen West should endorse, too, he fence sat this whole thing through and I must say I lost some respect of him as a result. I could live with who he endorsed but to just sit it out and by lack of action perhaps contribute to a Romney Nomination is just unfathomable in my section of Tea Party Land that I occupy. Now we see all RINO-dom in their sycophantic glory (Jeb Bush, etc) starting to pile on for Romney to create the Establishment's chain reaction of "inevitability" from the top down ("You Conservatives in the "Base" will do as we say, now, vote for us, get in the back seat, and SHUT UP.")
This must be stopped, and through a united front behind Santorum, it can be. But time is running out.
“What is sad about this windmill tilting is, as I expressed yesterday, the admirable, tough fighter Mr. Gingrich is not even eligible yet to have his name placed in GOP nomination at the Tampa convention per Rule 40 (b) at this time.”
After Mittens fails to win the first vote anybody can be placed on the ballot if they have a plurality of five state delegates on the floor. Remember after the First ballot ALL delegates are released to vote for Whomever.
That is why at a brokered convention we could get a Jeb Bush or Chris Christie or even Sarah Palin.