[Vigilanteman]

There are two issues involved here:

1. Winner-take-all primary.
   
2. Number of Florida delegates awarded.

Florida opted for a winner-take-all primary (which was their right), but also accepted a 50% reduction in the number of delegates awarded, which was the known penalty imposed for holding a winner-take-all primary before Super Tuesday (March 6).

The only logical alternatives are:

1. Leaving it as it is or
   
2. Restoring all of Florida's delegates and making the award proportional.

In case one, Mitt nets all 50 delegates from Florida. In case two, 100 delegates are awarded proportionally to anyone getting over 15% of the vote.

This means a roughly 60%/40% delegate split or net 20 for Mitt. But the bigger problem is that Florida is able to skate for violating the primary rules (the logic of which would be a topic for another discussion) and suffer no penalty.

It sets a poor precedent for a relative handful of delegates.

Still, at this point, I understand that Newt needs to fight for every single delegate. But it can't help but revive memories of Al Gore in Florida in 2000 fighting for every vote and attempting to change the rules ex-post facto. Not a good move, IMHO.

Particularly when Newt will be going into some very winnable primary contests.

[Beagle8U]

Except for the FACT that the RNC, and every state, agreed that EVERY primary and caucus before Feb 1, 2012 would be proportional delegates.

The Fla GOP was there and agreed to that rule long ago, just as all the other states did.