What is sad is that FNC is really in the tank for Mitt and that network, along with all others are using Paul (whom they have totally ignored in the past) as the "straw man" to allow Mitt to beat as "THE conservative" for the nomination - hoping to gather pro-life social conservative votes.
IF Mitt gets that nomination then the election goes to Obama, no doubt about it.
RNC back to its old tricks of setting the "next in line" at the top spot regardless of how the grassroots feel about that candidate - pretending to work hard to win.
Tea Partiers are on to this trick and I predict will NOT jump on board, just as many social conservatives and libertarian-types (Paul supporters) will stay home election day.
This is NOT a defeatist attitude on my part, its a view of the last numbers of elections with Republican "next in line" (i.e. Dole and McCain.)
When you keep on doing the same thing that does NOT work, expecting change, that's a sign of a seriously disturbed sense of reality - that's what rules the Establishment, the RNC and all others who refuse to allow an actual conservative to head the top spot (just as they attempted to stop Reagan's candidacy!)
Rush has it right, the Establishment is still working off the "Goldwater syndrome" (who was NOT as conservative as they feared.)