As Freddy reported on Tuesday night, Rick Santorum has dropped out of the race for this year’s Republican
nomination, making Mitt Romney virtually certain to be the nominee. Sure, Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul are still hanging in there — just as Mike Huckabee and, erm, Ron Paul did in 2008. Back
then, as he continued campaigning even once John McCain was the clear winner, Huckabee said:
But the miracle didn’t come for Huckabee four years ago, and it’s not going to come for Gingrich or Paul this time round. So Romney v Obama it will be in November. As Freddy said, the Republican base will now come round to Romney, not out of love for him but out of loathing for Obama.‘I know the pundits and I know what they say: well the math doesn’t work out. Folks, I didn’t major in math; I majored in miracles, and I still believe in those too.’
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