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What I’m most scared of is that this primary has been so divisive that, if by some nightmare chance we get Romney, that people won’t vote for him.

Four more years of Obama would do us in.

Let’s hope Newt can win Florida and gain some momentum.

The problem is that I don't see Gingrich being able to win against Obama.

If Romney does win FL, this will be the 2nd time Gingrich has been sailing at #1, only to drop like a rock by the time of the voting. IA was the first.

I posted in another thread that, if Gingrich and his supporters thought Bloody Thursday was bad, wait until a nominee Gingrich finds out what Muddy/Blood October holds. It will make Bloody Thursday look like Saturday morning cartoons.

And, I just don't see Romney being able to win either.

Santorum had a great debate last week, but it wasn't enough to put him anywhere near the top. So, neither he nor Paul are viable candidates for the nomination.

It seems the GOP has managed to shoot themselves in the foot again and will manage to pull defeat out of the jaws of what seemed like an assured victory 12 months ago.

A brokered convention might save the GOP, except that they would probably go with the Jeb guy and that would assure them of a November defeat.

Risking another crucifixion here, but if one looks at it realistically, we had a horrible field to start with.

No one candidate at the beginning seemed viable and one was hard pressed to see why any of them thought they should be president.

I think Palin is a little at fault. So many people here (myself included) were sure she would run and win.

She kept stringing us along way too long. She knew all along what would be entailed in the race and how it would affect her family.

So people were left in a void and many here flocked from candidate to candidate seeking a savior.

Cain: why did he run with no credentials at all to be president? None. And why did he get so much initial support? I think it was Palin supporters looking for someone to love. They chose the wrong lover.

Santorum: why did he run? He’d been a fairly conservative senator for two terms but had been beaten badly, and I mean, badly by a democrat, and hadn’t done much in politics since.

Bachmann: a little more argument for her running as she is the self-proclaimed queen of the tea party, but her stature as presidential dropped like a rock in a hysterical outburst over Gardisol. Gardisol??? With all the problems we have, she chose to take on Gardisol.

Ron Paul: he runs every time even though knowing he can’t win. He views it as a chance to get his positions out there and it is. That’s the problem, we all know his crazy positions, foremost among them the notion that middle easterners are nice people who only attacked us because we are mean and interfering.

Gingrich: Meteorical rise to the top with the contract with America. An idea machine, some of his ideas are far out (see Moon) but most of them are good. But what made him think he was suddenly ready to be president so many years after he resigned as speaker?

Rick Perry: (admit to prejudice here - he was my candidate) The only one who seemed viable. A successful governor who knows politics but not from a Washington prospective. Had a lot of anti-establishment ideas, but never caught fire for some reason I cannot imagine, maybe it was the first debate.

Mitt Romney: One term governor who created a health care program in his state eerily similar to the hated Obamacare. Has a lot of money. Always wanted to be president.

So, there it was and here we are.

So, that’s what we had.