The stupidest thing, out of many stupid things, that Ron Paul's cult members believed was that more media attention would help Ron Paul the candidate vs. Ron Paul the business.

Ron Paul is not running for president, he is doing what he has always done and that is make money off of the disaffected be they racists or college students who are dumb enough to think Ayn Rand wrote anything but fiction.

Paul won Maine

Romney is a Marxist Fascist. If the GOP and America are to be saved from the tyranny of the Democrat Party and the Kenyan Marxist homosexual, American patriots must say no to Romney. Otherwise Obama will win, and a civil war won't be far behind.

@2: Game changer!!!

@3 - where do I get that tin-foil hat?

@1 They complained the media was ignoring Ron Paul.
Then they complained when the media talked about Ron Paul.
Now they're complaining the media is ignoring Ron Paul, having already forgotten what happened a few weeks ago.

Paul's still second in delegates, right? He's cheating, but cheating is allowed in this game.

@7 Second to last in delegates, right above Huntsman
http://elections.nytimes.com/2012/primar…

Paul keeps saying he is first in delegates, but he is either lying or using some funny math. Probably lying.

You mean Rock Santorum, right?

This hurts my brain.

CNN is going out of its way not to talk about Ron Paul, even though their fancy delegate projections show him having an easier time of being 2nd place than Comrade Newt.

Seriously, do you think Americans are THAT stupid?

Damn. I was kinda hoping that Santorum would win Michigan, just to watch republicans go all ape shit on each other. This return to bland Willard is boring.

WIS @12, of course Americans are THAT stupid. They elected W not once but twice. There seems to be no limit to the stupid.

@3: Fresh Prince, Bel-Air.

Santorum speaks as only a upper class guy who was trying to be one of the working class would.

We're all in this together! School sucks!

The thing is...no one wants to be in the working class. The goal is to get out of it...by sending your kids to college.

Some guy who has 3 degrees doesn't seem on the level (BA in political science, no less, plus an MBA and a JD). "Hey, guys, I got a j.d....yeah, just like when you stole those hubcaps in middle school...neat, huh? Gotta cig?"

What was the pants thing?

@8, no, you're missing the point. Many of those Gingrich and Santorum delegates are actually Paul's. The way it works is, in caucus states, after everybody votes, they go home, thereby missing out on the delegate-selection part of the process. Paul supporters stay, and game the system to get the position. Republicans don't bind their delegates, so just because Gingrich won X percent of them, if the actual seat is taken by a Paul supporter, at the convention the vote will go to Paul. Voters be damned. That's what I meant by "cheating".

Published delegate counts don't reflect this; they still count some of the Paul-committed delegates as belonging to the candidate who won them.

Whether the strategy works or not is an open question. Paul's not going to win the nomination, but he can screw up the process. I think he's going to end up throwing the thing to Romney in the end, if Romney can't win it outright, by stealing delegates that by rights should be Ricky's or Newty's.