[C. Edmund Wright]

You make some good points - and regardless of what happens in this nomination process, the following will always be true about it:

Newt was running away with the field by attacking Obama and liberalism in general, including the media. Period. Then the entire field panicked, and the attacks started especially by the Paul campaign and the Romney PAC - but in some degree by all six other candidates at that point. That turned the entire thing into a food fight. Sadly Newt got dragged in the mess instead of using his new money to simply keep attacking Obama.

Newt responded with Bain, which was bad strategy. Santorum won Iowa by default, and has tried to over play his hand as this pure conservative which his 2006 campaign clearly shows is a ridiculous statement. He frankly is more liberal than Mitt in a lot of ways. Sad to say.

Now we might be left with Mitt, who like Obama, will act nice and mild and let his minions pull the dirtiest tricks possible. And yes, all of this has taken away from the marxist in the White House.

In order, here is who I blame for the infighting, in order.

Bachmann in the debates
Paul in debates
Paul’s ads.
Mitt’s PAC
Mitt’s campaign
Santorum in the debates
Mitt in the debates
Newt’s PAC

Newt tried to keep it on Obama (and so did Cain) - but it was not possible.

[skeeter]

I agree with most of what you said, but reject your contention that Santorum had anything to do with driving this campaign into the gutter. He was doing nothing worse than campaigning, and not even necessarily that negatively.

We can thank Paul and Romney for the food fight, exclusively.