Romney finishes 1st = failure
Paul finishes 3rd = failure
Gingrich finishes 4th = "respectable"
Yeah, it's pretty hard figuring out who your preferred candidate is.
All that said, the Iowa caucus means next to nothing & pretending like it does (like NYT, CNN, Fox, Wash Post, etc) will not make it so.
Didn’t read a thing I wrote, did you ?