Gingrich is increasingly unlikely to be the nominee. He has no money to compete and nobody's going to donate if he hasn't proved he can win. After already being knocked down once ... looks to me like he's on the verge of entering a death-spiral.

At this point, Santorum is a better bet (and my current bet for where the flux will head next if it doesn't settle down after rolling through Paul) - evangelicals are asking Bachmann to merge her campaign in with his to form a unity ticket of purity and goodness (Santorum/Bachman ... yeah. That's the ticket :). There really is theoretical math for Ron Paul to be pretty well poised going in to Super Tuesday ... I suspect he'll get rather more than 205 before it's done. Still not sure how to figure that into the equation ... but I'm pretty sure the conventional view is off-base. I *really* don't see any of the other candidates staying in it through to the end and letting things go to a brokered convention with Ron Paul as kingmaker, so all roads still seem to lead to Romney .... and a *much* more dicey question about how to deal with the Ron Paul delegates this time (seems unlikely they'll try to pull off just stripping them at the state level again).

I can't think of anyone in specific that has reacted positively to the "arrest judges" thing ... from any direction. It did get quick applause, and the Telegraph speculated much as you are here ... but by and large Republicans seem to be unimpressed. Are you seeing a positive response within republican circles somewhere I'm not?

I never realized just how much of a psycho Newt really is before this either. All I can say on that front is; wow.