Fla is NOT a winner take all. The rules are clear. Before April first there are no winner take all states. Unless you want to play like a liberal and ignore the rules when it benefits your chosen candidate? You'd be howling if it was Santorum.
Who the hell challenges a result before an election?!.
Rick has 12 delegates. Where do you get 4?
Checked online again.
Gingrich 32
Santorum 17
Santorum would get delegates if they put the rules back to the Steele rule.
As for howling, the real howling would be the universal outcry if, as Gingrich predicted and polls showed a week or so out, he had one what he said was a winner-take-all florida race, and then Romney had filed a complaint to get proportionality.
Which is fine -- the issue is political, and we would favor or not based on whose ox was gored.
In Virginia, the court ruled against Perry in part because while the rules that were adopted could well have violated other rules, he didn't complain before the deadline, and instead worked under the rules as Virginia had expressed them, so it was disengenous to try to get a court to rule against those rules later.
BTW, I think the same is true in Virginia regarding political ox-goring. When it looked like Gingrich and Perry had made it, even I was bemoaning that Santorum had not, and making fun of Bachmann for not even trying.
And when Perry was knocked out, the Gingrich folks were all laughing about him here, and saying how it proved he wasn't a serious candidate, and were quite pleased the rules meant that only Gingrich would compete against Romney (and Paul).
It wasn't until Gingrich got knocked out that the GIngrich folks started complaining about the rules, and agreeing with the Perry folks that it was unfair.
If Gingrich hadn't been knocked out, I am certain the Gingrich folks would have derided Perry for his lawsuit. Heck, a lot of them did anyway, just because it was in their nature.