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All for Newt, but the fact is barring an unusual occurrence, this is over. Mark has been trying to coax the Romney campaign to be more effective for the past couple weeks since it became apparent he was going to win it.

Politics is a mix of idealism and realism....we have to be real, and Levin is dealing with the reality that Mitt is all but certain to be the standard-bearer.

Okay, 2 questions for you:

1. What if for the past two weeks, while there are still 1/2 of the primaries remaining, what if levin, rush, all the others, jumped into the breach and said, NO!, we are all going to get behind the last conservative standing, and we are not going to let them choose our candidate. Would that count as an "unusual occurrence" as you call it?

2. What is going to happen when and if Romney is elected, and the liberal socialist Romney shows up in WH, because nobody really knows which romney they are electing. What will that mean regarding the people who painted him all up with conservative colors and dishonestly presented him to the base? Do you consider that a principled thing for them to do?

I know you don't have to answer, but I really would like to hear your thoughts, because I am grappling bigtime with all this...

I believe the answer to your question is two fold:

1. On the day Santorum dropped out, Newt hit bottom in the polls. Rush and company would have been putting it on the line for someone who appeared to have no chance.

2. Rush, for one, keeps saying that it is not his job to make people glom onto a candidate, it is the candidate’s job. If they cannot figure out how to win among Republicans, how can they win in the fall?

Next Tuesday, unless Newt can find a miracle, Romney is now poised to pick up 231 (or most of 231) hard delegates. I really think that Santorum was not only losing money, but he looked at the polls and decided the best he was going to do in Pennsylvania was a split, with the other 200 delegates going to Romney. Wisconsin really had become make or break for him.

I have a question for those following Newt the closest: it seemed that the Newt PAC spent most of its money on bashing Santorum (here in Tennessee at least). Is that why Newt’s sugar daddy did not jump in with more cash two weeks ago when it might have helped?