I think Mitt will win NH or be a very close second there, unlike Iowa.
Also with a lot of endorsements in SC, Mitt would do well there.
So it is quite premature to write Mitt Romney off.
When it comes to super tuesday, I am not sure Mitt can do that well, I still think Giuliani might do quite well on super tuesday to get the nomination.
Mitt can only pull it off in NH if he attacks both McCain and Huckabee hard and relentlessly and I just don’t think their is enough time. The most he can hope to do is catch Huckabee off guard at the debate Saturday. He needs to do something to throw off Huckabee’s nice guy image. Provoke him. I don’t know what would do it but then again I’m not running the Romney campaign. He also needs to get McCain to blow his top.
The way to do that with Huck is to find a way to question his Baptist credentials provoking him to attacking Romney’s Mormon ism. It would be risky but it would definently provoke a reaction. If I were him I’d simply call McCain and I’d make the true allegation that McCain supported amnesty. Then when McCain replys with “He never has supported Amnesty” I’d call him a liar in the nicest way possible by saying “John, you know that just isn’t true.”.
I don’t know debates are never guarantees. I’d like to see Mitt leave the race quickly so we can get on to dismantling Huckabee.