[true believer forever]

Very good point -- and I'm going to tell you something now that will make you sick: back before SC and right after SC, I told the super PAC to run ads showing Santorum praising Newt (it was a clip from one of the debates) - praising Newt as his conservative mentor. I said run these ads to start gently peeling off Santorum's voters who think he's the true conservative and as a way to convince Perry, Palin, Bachmann, Cain, etc, supporters to come to Newt.

DAMN I wish they had taken my advice. Had they done that in SC and Florida, I think the race would be totally totally different.

Okay, I can only imagine how bad you feel, but there's nothing that can be done to change things, and it's over and done. NOW, what is your cutting-edge take on where Newt is now, right this minute, and what is the solution to that, in your estimation? How would you proceed? Not to be demanding, but I really would like to know. :)

[C. Edmund Wright]

I was absolutely sure what to do in Nov, Dec, Jan and Feb up through Super Tuesday. They didn’t do hardly any of it.

Now I’m not sure what to do, and I’m not sure what Newt’s goal is at this point. I think he would like to hang in and help keep Mitt from 1144 and then hope to convince delegates on round 2 that he’s the man to go against Obama (at convention). But I don’t think running that type of campaign will pick up enough votes, money and delegates between now and the convention to make that work.

That kind of thing might work if he were really running hard and just finishing second or third, but by semi running, it won’t work.