From the hot, overcrowded media room at CPAC, I caught part of Romney’s farewell from the campaign trail.

In HD, looked aged, but fired up.

And he may have saved some of his best campaign moments for last. “[Dependency] is a drug, we have to fight it like the poison it is.” That got him a Standing O.

If you’re gonna leave the race, this is the way to do it.

Think the bar has been raised for McCain this afternoon?

CPAC is like Thunderdome. Two men enter, one man leaves. Okay, with Huckabee, three men enter, two men leave.