Santorum To Leave Florida, About To Drop Out Of GOP Race?

[Indiana4Paul]

santorum is going to take a hit for the GOP team. imma miss santorum and his antics.

OR... maybe hes going to campaign in the later states? the caucus states like Ron?

This is a quote from Santorum immediately after the SC primary:
"Let me assure you we will go to Florida and we will go to Arizona"

Taken from this AP article.

Now, Huntsman and Perry both said they were competing in SC and campaigned in the state before each dropped out the week of the primary. Could happen with Santorum in Florida.

But he specifically mentioned Arizona and that is interesting. He obviously knew that Nevada, Maine, Colorado and Minnesota caucused before the Arizona Primary and Michigan caucused the same day as Arizona, so it could have been a little bit of a tell on his strategy. I'm a novice at this stuff but it certainly seems plausible as a strategy to let Newt, Romney and Paul duke it out in the caucus' and fight for votes in Michigan while Santorum focuses all of his limited resources on Arizona.
Arizona is a week before Super Tuesday and maybe his team is aiming for a 2nd Santorum SurgeTM for that day.

 

[skytoucher]

I don't think Santorum will drop out anytime soon. Even if he just sits at home and then shows up at the debates.

If you were the establishment would you really want Ron Paul in a 3 person debate? I don't think the establishment is worried about a Paul presidency, they are more worried about Paul getting time to deliver his message on MSM. The only time Ron Paul gets massive exposure to the MSM crowd is during the speech that happens after each primary and during the debates. The establishment can't do much about the after primary speeches but the debates are another issue.

IMO the changes to the GOP rules this year were because of Paul. Remember, he stayed in it till the end last time. I think Paul would be doing worse under the old rules. The trade off is the establishment can justify more people staying in the race longer, thus cutting into Paul's exposure with the MSM crowd.