I don’t think anyone needs to or should drop out. By switching the target on Romney we keep him off balance and he loses focuses and he’s seen as a negative only candidate. The only way he beat Newt was in Iowa he went 100% negative (along with Paul) to attack Newt.
I think after that Newt said...I’m taking Romney with me as I fall because he started this. Prior to that Newt was very classy in debates and wasn’t speaking ill of is fellow Republicans. But now he’s like a woman scorned and has his sights on Romney. Let Newt be the attack dog and petty fight with Romney...while Santorum can stay on message. Romney won’t be able to fight both of them with his standard 25% polling. Plus if Santorum implodes we have a fall back to Newt. Worse case scenario no one gets the delegates needed and we have a brokered convention—which at this point may be the best news.
“By switching the target on Romney we keep him off balance and he loses focuses”
The problem with that strategy is that the delegates not going to Romney are getting split between Newt and Santorum, so in the end, Romney will still have the most delegates.
This 3-way race will hand him the nomination because he always finishes first or second. Just check the delegate count so far and you’ll see that this strategy is not working. Somebody needs to drop out.