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At the risk of minimizing the significance of Mitt Romney's decisive victory tonight in Florida, let us keep in mind he has a grand total of 87 delegates.

Let us avoid the temptation to fit Mitt with a crown. In the space of four weeks, Romney won and then lost Iowa, won New Hampshire decisively only to be squashed in South Carolina before tonight's Sunshine State triumph.

He still needs to earn 1,057 delegates to earn the Republican nomination. Nearly half of those delegates are up for grabs on Super Tuesday on March 6th. If the past 28 days have been eventful, Lord only knows what is in store for the next 35 days.

Folks, we have a long, long way to go before this is all said and done.

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Bill| 1.31.12 @ 8:42PM

Romney wins in FL and gets the GOP nod. I got that! Here's a fact. Obama will have 4 more years. No thanks, FL! The "spoiler" did it again!
You don't like Gingrich, you get Obama! Damn FL!

Jack in Wi.| 1.31.12 @ 9:42PM

Ron Paul did not bother with Florida. He is concentrating on states with delegates. he will have gotten more delegates this week then Gingrich and Santorum combined. Romney spent a lot of Goldman Sach's and Mormon money to win Florida and Newt spent a lot of Adelson's money to lose it. One good thing abou this chicken fight down in Florida, the rabid Zionists lost big. Who knows Mitt might even get mad at them, for costing him all that money.Gingrich really went over the top. Notice how few people care about this election to comment here. Romney and Gingrich inspire no-one

Occam's Tool| 1.31.12 @ 8:46PM

sAt least Paul finished with 6.9%.

Mitt WILL beat Bummer this time, if he will just play feelthy. He needs to attack Obama like he did Newt, only 3 times as hard. To those who say "racist," repond: "He's a Liberal President of the US. I'd be doing the same thing to Hillary Clinton. We can't survive 4 more years of this idiot."

Jeremiah Smirking| 2.1.12 @ 8:51AM

Mittens WON'T attack Obama because he's the typical moderate Republican wuss who's afraid to stand up for anything other than his desire to be in power, and too chickenshit to criticize Obama for fear of being labeled a racist.

Occam's Tool| 1.31.12 @ 8:46PM

Sorry: "respond."

Clint| 1.31.12 @ 11:29PM

There Ain't No " We" Israel Firster RINO-CINO Tool Job.

53.6 Percent Of The Florida Republican Primary Vote Was Against The RINO-CINO Frontman.Mittens Romney.

Now Add Up The Democrat Vote And The Independent Vote And Tell Us How The RINO-CINO Frontman.Mittens Romney Wins Without The All Those Other Votes.

The Tea Party Rebellion Benefits From A Brokered Convention.

Casey Abell| 1.31.12 @ 8:56PM

Aaron's hoping Cain will jump back in.

Just kidding. Sort of.

PCP Smoker| 1.31.12 @ 9:33PM

Haven't you heard? It's over. The whole thing ended tonight. I mean Romney WON a 47% LANDSLIDE! That's what Drudge is claiming. Drudge, GOP Establishment, Ross Kaminsky, Ann What's herface. Be happy, the guy who expose Gingrich as the true Reagan hater won!

Mike 3/505| 1.31.12 @ 9:58PM

Gingrich won SC by 14 points. Right now, with 96% reporting, Romney wins Florida...by ..... 14 points. And yes...I know....winner take all....but he sure spent a LOT of dough for those 14 points.

This ain't over by a long shot....unless we allow folks to tell us it is.

Regards,

Mike

John - TMF| 1.31.12 @ 11:12PM

So? Politibot won.... by lying, smearing, and misrepresenting. He didn't even get the poo on his tasseled loafers, either.

Florida pols, bought and paid for. Establishment firmly in control to rid the GOP of the nasty TEA Party rubes.

The nomination is Mittens to buy. Money talks to power, power talks to money. It is one of the circles of hell, I think.

Long time until August... long time.

r/TMF

Clint| 2.1.12 @ 12:40AM

Top RINO-CINO Romney Campaign Donors List:

Goldman Sachs $367,200
Credit Suisse Group $203,750
Morgan Stanley $199,800
HIG Capital $186,500
Barclays $157,750
Kirkland & Ellis $132,100
Bank of America $126,500
PriceWaterhouseCoopers $118,250
EMC Corp $117,300
JPMorgan Chase & Co $112,250
The Villages $97,500
Vivint Inc $80,750
Marriott International $79,837
Sullivan & Cromwell $79,250
Bain Capital $74,500
UBS AG $73,750
Wells Fargo $61,500
Blackstone Group $59,800
Citigroup Inc $57,050
Bain & Co $52,500

Follow The RINO-CINO Cronies Money Trail.

NevereveN| 2.1.12 @ 1:15AM

Romney and his superpacs spent over $15,000,000 on mostly negative ads in Florida to get 771,000 votes. If he does equally well in all of the remaining states, he will get somewhere in the neighborhood of another 12,000,000 Republican primary votes. At $20 each that will cost him another $240,000,000. The last Presidential election was won with 63,000,000 votes. So Romney will need at least that many general election votes. At $20 each again, that's $1,260,000,000. All added up Mitt and his Wall Street .01 percenters will have to pony up AT LEAST a billion and a half dollars to buy the main election. But then consider that he outspends his Republican opponents by about four to one to win, and we are told that Obama will have about a billion to spend, maybe Romney will need $4,000,000,000 to buy it.... Talk about owing election favors! Honestly, he may be able to overwhelm Newt in Florida with his money, but I don't see how he can just overwhelm the whole GOP, DNC, and country this way. This is a sad state of affairs when money can do this.

Nancy in NC| 2.1.12 @ 6:51AM

It wouldn't be about money if the electorate would do their job. I don't pay any attention to campaign ads. I do my own research and make my own decisions. It's easy enough to do with all the outlets available. If you're going to vote, you have a responsibility to use it wisely. My vote isn't for sale.

Daffy Duck should be able to beat Obama.

Bob K.| 2.1.12 @ 8:04AM

Yes! But think of all the money the media made from Romney's ads and how grateful they will be to him in November for it! Obama is toast!

Romney should use "Hail to the Chief" as his campaign song!!

Richard Reed| 2.1.12 @ 9:49AM

Thank you for this article. One of the most maddening characteristics of the GOP Establishment is their obsession with ending the GOP race before most of us have had a chance to vote.

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