I said conservatives. Romney was at the time a listed example of RINO's. If you consider Guilianni conservative, then we differ. Thompson, my choice, took forever to get in, and was out very quickly. Brownback, a true and great conservative, never got out of single digits, same as Hunter, another top conservative choice. Paul, is a libertarian. Tancredo is another good conservative, was out pretty soon, altho seems like he hung in a long time considering his performance. While I'm not sure when exactly they all folded, when it got to Texas in March, there was only McCain, Paul (my choice by then) and the huckster, who did everything he could to throw it to McCain.
I said name the “liberal” state that knocked out the conservatives.
I say that SC knocked out Thompson, and the rest were either not conservative or never got more than 1-2 percent.