Not much help

Another silver medal for Mitt!:

Sen. John McCain won Florida’s Republican primary on Tuesday, apparently driving Rudy Giuliani from the race and taking a critical victory over Mitt Romney in the battle for momentum before the race for the GOP presidential nomination turns to Super Tuesday.

Giuliani will end his campaign and endorse McCain on Wednesday at the Reagan library in Simi Valley, Calif., a senior member of his campaign told NBC News late Tuesday.

With Huckabee sucking up to McCain, I think it’s pretty safe to say that the other nominees really dislike Mitt even more than the voters. So how did Mitt take all of this?:

Mitt’s Concession Speech Posted by: Matt Lewis at 9:38 PM

Jon – I agree. Something’s wrong with Mitt. He looks and sounds very angry and upset. He’s not at all gracious. And his speech is basically a stump speech that seems to me, at least, to be preachy, out-of-place, and inappropriate.

Let’s be perfectly honest here: Mitt Romney is a businessman and, on top of that, he has a Master of the Universe view of himself, and when he spends millions of his own dollars and he still can’t buy a thrill from the electorate, he’s going to be bitter at the fools who refuse to buy what he’s selling:

The Nielsen Co. today released statistics on television advertising in Florida, figures that will loom as particularly telling if Mitt Romney wins Tuesday’s Republican presidential primary in the state.

The report spotlights the extent of the media campaign Romney has run in Florida. From March of last year through the first part of last week, TV spots for the former Massachusetts governor totaled 4,475.

The comparable number for John McCain: 470.

All of McCain’s ads have been broadcast this month. Romney’s total for the month: 1,392.

Romney had the advantage last year of being flush with cash, while McCain’s campaign at times was virtually tapped out. And even as McCain’s financial situation has improved, Romney … has maintained a big edge over him, in part by funneling an unknown (but presumably hefty) amount of his personal fortune into his campaign coffers.

Under normal circumstances I would say that Romney would be playing for a tie, in this case a brokered convention, where he undoubtedly believes that he could attempt to convince the powers that be (as opposed to the stupid fucking yokels who vote in primaries) that he is the man. But even the powers that be have to see that the more people see of Romney, the less they like him. That’s not the message that every dollar of his campaign has set out to sell, but that’s the one that’s being received.

For my money, I just hope he sticks around and blows Tagg’s inheritance going after John McCain.

-One last thing, at last count, 1.9 million Floridians voted in the Republican primary, while 1.7 million voted in the Democratic primary. The difference is that the Democratic primary meant nothing since there will be no delegates awarded. Yet still they came. Interesting.

Meanwhile, another George W. Bush sinks into the west.