…who says hang on a minute, via e-mail:

Rich, Everyone is getting the Romney thing all wrong. He is not done, or baked, or anything by any means. When everyone said “Romney has to win the first two states and catapult” it was at the time that Giuliani had 45-60% national numbers and the conventional wisdom was that the ONLY way for Romney to catch Giuliani was to win IA and NH. This changed gradually as Giuliani kept getting knocked down. What no one in the MSM wanted to admit was that Huckabee was taking it out of Giuliani’s hide, not Romney’s. Huckabee actually did Romney a favor by making conditions such that Romney could now run a national campaign and not have to rely on a catapult strategy. Simply, the catapult meme means nothing now that Giuliani has been knocked down natinoally. If you would have told Romney one year ago, when he was running 5th nationally “after Iowa you’ll be running in a tie for first nationally at Rasmussen, and you will have come in second at IA and be in a statistical dead heat in NH” I think that would have been just about where Romney’s highest hopes could have been. It’s clear the MSM wants to bury Romney. But it ain’t gonna work. The catapult meme died with Rudy’s collapse. And there are other positives. Romney won the non-evangelical vote in IA. Thompson placed well enough to not drop out (a positive going into NH b/c McCain doesn’t get that endorsement), and Obama won, making it more likely that Dems (and many independent) won’t vote in the republican primary in NH (and probably MI), choosing instead to vote in the Dem primary . . . They MSM is ignoring all of these things which are positive for Romney…