re: #58 000G

People supporting Cain or any other Tea Party candidate don’t neccessarily do so because they want him specifically to win the nomination but because they want the eventual nomineee (i.e. Romney) to know what they want. A Tea Party candidate gives them the chance to focus and bundle their energy and give them a bull horn, which would be drowned out more if they had thrown their weight behind Romney early on.

That could be it. I do recall reading a few comments on wingnut sites admitting that they’d been had when Sarah Palin didn’t run. There are some True Believers out there.