[JohnnyZ]

Both are in until the end.

Super Tuesday IS the end for Rudy and Romney.

Neither has any issue they're promoting, just personal ambition. As soon as they find out they have no chance, they're out. That's Super Tuesday at latest.

[kabar]

We will agree to disagree. Rudy and Mitt will have a sizeable number of delegates to use to influence the outcome. Most of the GOP primaries are not winner takes all, which means that they will be getting delegates on Super Tuesday. Mitt certainly won't drop out. He has a real shot at the nomination. And I see Giuliani wanting to stay in until the bitter end, especially if McCain tanks.

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[kevkrom]

Rudy and Romney. Neither has any issue they're promoting,

Giuliani at least is running on some sembelence of "win the WoT", regardless of my opinion that he really has no qualifications to do so that make him in any way better than the rest of the field minus Paul.

For the life of me, I have no idea what Romney's priorities as President would be. He's got a committee-written, focus-group-approved white paper for every issue, toeing the "conservative" line, but I've never seen anyone lay out what the top 3 or 5 things Romney wants to do.

I mean, everyone else in the GOP race has some kind of priorities:

• Giuliani: Mention 9/11 a lot, figure out how to fight terrorists (then, actually fight terrorists), look for new mistress

• McCain: Fight terrorists, pass amnesty (shhh! you didn't hear that!), figure out who stole the #!$@ strawberries

• Thompson: Kill the terrorists, protect the border, punch the hippies

• Huckabee: Pass amnesty, raise taxes, sing kum-bay-ah a lot as a foreign policy

• Paul: Pretend the last 220 years never happened, retreat like a sissy, create shrine for Constitution

• Hunter: Build the fence, enact trade protectionist policies, build the #!$@ing fence already!!!

• Tancredo (defunct): Stop illegal immigration, stop legal immigration, nuke Mecca

But where to put Romney's priorities?