Romney campaign says losing nomination would take 'act of God'

msnbc ^ | March 7, 2012 | Garrett Haake and Jamie Novogrod

[Red Steel]

BOSTON -- Mitt Romney's campaign gathered the national press corps in their campaign war room this morning to deliver a simple message: It would take an "act of God" for any candidate not named Mitt Romney to win the Republican nomination.

The Boston-based campaign projected confidence in Romney's ability to win the nomination given the emerging delegate math in the campaign following last night's Super Tuesday contests.

"We will get to 1,144 whether it's on someone else’s timeline, or on our timeline," said one top Romney aide. "We will get to 1,144 and be the Republican nominee."

The background briefing with several members of the campaign's senior staff was emblematic of Romney's campaign: no grand flourishes, just business, math and message, with aides asserting the calendar was ill-suited to any candidate looking to eat into Romney's delegate lead.

Looking ahead to a primary calendar where the only remaining true winner-take-all states appear to favor Romney -- Delaware, Utah, New Jersey and the District of Columbia (where Rick Santorum is not on the ballot) -- the advisers tried to slowly close the door on Santorum and Newt Gingrich, who they said had little to no opportunity left to close the delegate gap.

Other delegate-heavy states like California and Texas (the latter thought to be less friendly to Romney) are winner-take-all by congressional district, which all but guarantees their large delegate hauls being split between candidates, rather than award a large haul to a single GOP hopeful. One Romney aide said one would have to "bend the laws of reality," to see Gingrich or Santorum making a significant dent in Romney's lead...

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Asked directly when they would begin working behind the scenes to convince the Gingrich and Santorum campaigns to see the math their way, one Romney adviser responded bluntly "now."

[Resettozero]

...not all of those in the Paul column are necessarily transferable directly to the Romney column.

[madison10]

Dear God, I think Romney just double dog dared You.

IBTZ on Romney.

ROFL (See rich guy in Bible with big barn for reference.)

[mojitojoe]

He and Soetoro are two of a kind. Both arrogant, sniveling narcissistic a$$holes

[The Wizard]

this is something I wouldn’t have said......God has a funny way of making His own decisions.....

[redhead]

""It would take an "act of God" for any candidate not named Mitt Romney to win the Republican nomination."

"Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God..." (Luke 4:12)