It’s one cold night in Iowa, dude.

Now it may be that conservatives are cold to Romney too. But I’d give it beyond Iowa for that to shake out. Romney sells himself as a turnaround artist. Hey, show us. Maybe he is.

Huckabee coming out of nowhere should be a motivator to the others. There are still choices to be made here and the choices have not been made for conservatives by Iowa or money or whomever the conventional chattering wisdom lines up for.

I think Romney should not be counted out. And I think if you’re convinced McCain has to be the guy, why can’t Fred be the guy? Why can’t Rudy get right? I’m just saying we had one caucus night — a two-hour process ? — and this election isn’t over.

Like Peter Gabriel sang, Don’t Give Up!