[E. Pluribus Unum]

His internals said he was going to lose PA, no doubt.

[samtheman]

Money is part of that. PA is a huge media market and without money he really couldn’t compete. So I take him at his word.

No point in risking the humiliation of a big defeat in your home state when you don’t have the money to do anything to mitigate that risk.

[Ingtar]

He was not going to be able to win Pennsylvania by a large enough margin to offset the media meme about the other three Romney wins that day. The schedule was set up to offset any losses in Conservative/Moderate states with more wins in Liberal states. Everything was stacked to help Romney this time.

[Antoninus]

His internals said he was going to lose PA, no doubt.

You can't win against millions of dollars of negative advertising with no money.

As expected, Romney bought the nomination by the sheer weight of dollars. Pathetic.

[xzins]

There is no state that Romney won that was not a result of his money advantage.

It does make one wonder who the candidate would be if none of them had any money and just had to go on the basis of public broadcast of debates or discussions.

[Patton@Bastogne]

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Santorum dropped-out because Mitt was about to spend $ 9 million in negative TV ads in Pennslyvanmnia ...

And apparently ... Santorum was provided the "blistering, scorched-earth" ad to watch in advance ...



Here's where Ricky's youthful inexperience and massive-ego failed him ...

Had Santorum been an "experienced candidate" or frankly, just a little more intelligent, he would have teamed-up with Newt Gingrich to effectively STOP Romney ...

Because Ricky would have known that Mitt would eventually apply the "Kill Newt At All Costs" treatment to Santorum himself ...

All the above is "theory # 1" ...



Theory # 2 ?

Santorum was Romney's "stalking horse" candidate to cripple Genuine Conservatives ... in this case, Newt Gingrich ...

Pastor "Little Rickey" served his Master ("Ego") very well ...



Fortunately ... Romney "does not" win the 2012 GOP nomination ...

Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin do ...




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