"Ron Paul could be the best thing that happened to Romney"

“Usually I say there’s 3 tickets punched out of Iowa, but this year I think there’s one. Whoever wins or is second to Romney here, that second place finisher tries to coalesce the non-Mitt supporters around him,” said Tim Albrecht, who worked for Romney in 2008 and is Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad’s (R) communications director…

Craig Robinson, a former political director of the Iowa Republican Party, said that it “would be deadly” for any candidate to finish behind Paul in Iowa or the other early voting states because it would hurt perceptions for that candidate’s electability.

Robinson predicted that “people are going to be like, ‘if you can’t beat Ron Paul… how are you going to beat Barack Obama?’