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I’ve been wondering what the Newt supporter official line would be now that Santorum leads him in hard delegates, soft delegates, vote count, number of states won, total placement, and in head-to-head comparisons.

Newt leads in ex-wives.

I have been working very hard to not say anything negative about Gingrich. Sometimes his supporters get confused when I say negative things about their attacks on Santorum, or on their arguments about delegates, and think I’m attacking Gingrich.

I actually would be fine with Gingrich winning — it’s just that I don’t think he can, and so far I haven’t be proven wrong. Since he won South Carolina, I have consistantly said that I wish he could have maintained his lead, but that whatever he was doing was destroying him, and he was not going to recover, and that’s why I argued Santorum shouldn’t drop out.

And yet, having so far being proven right, there are still people on this very thread who argue that all would be well if just Santorum had dropped out before Florida.

This even though Newt would have lost both Florida and Nevada even if he had gotten every single Santorum vote. And even though Gingrich didn’t even bother to compete in the next 5 states, which would have conceded February to Romney, putting him hopelessly ahead and winning the “inevitability” argument.