I'm going to go out on a tin foil limb but I want you to think about this for a minute. Newt stayed in despite all advice telling him to get out. Pretty strange isn't it.
Santorum backs out just as he was gaining the lead and the advantage due to his daughter's illness (who was sick before he decided to run yet he did so anyway). How convenient was that for Mittens and the GOP-e?! He's getting his backside handed to him and suddenly his "strongest" opponent bows out of the race.
IMO it looks like people were being set up to have nobody but Mittens yet Newt somehow managed early on to figure out, or was informed, what was going to happen and he stayed in the fight.
It smells to high heaven of manipulation, FRiend, with Mittens as the only choice left.
I hate being manipulated or herded and there is another choice.
This is the most puzzling part of the posts here. If we were on this site throughout the primary, we saw exactly how it got to this point. The weak field, the split and infighting among the notRomneys. As soon as one alternative rose, the supporters of the others tore him down again.
I don't feel I was, or we were, manipulated into this; we did it of our own free will. We need stronger candidates and more unity to avoid this in the future; but I don't think we have that even on here.
thanks for your posts...