Romney's Out

This makes sense. Mathematically, he had no chance of winning the nomination. Some conseratives wanted him to stay in to make some sort of point about principle, or to extract conservative concessions from McCain at the convention.

But Romney's primary objective in this race has never been to make the next administration as conservative as possible. Romney ran for President because he wants to be President. With his key objective off the table, why would he spend millions more of his own dollars? Certainly not to make Kathryn Jean Lopez happy.