Ron Paul is calling it quits. In a statement on Monday, Paul announced he will no longer be campaigning in states that have not yet voted in the Republican primary race. He will, however, continue his quest for delegates.

While campaigning for his father at the Arizona Republican Party convention on Saturday, Josh Romney got drowned out by boos by Ron Paul supporters and was forced to leave the stage.

The Arizona Republic’s Rebekah Sanders reported that Paul supporters screamed out that Romney was “the white Obama.”

On Thursday’s edition of Laura Ingraham‘s radio show, Congressman Ron Paul explained that he is skeptical that presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney would be any better than President Obama.

After describing why he thinks it’s silly to assume Romney’s potential election would be a cure-all, Ingraham pressed Rep. Paul on whether Romney would at least be “better” than the current president:

As you may recall, Monday afternoon on Bloomberg TV’s Street Smart, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman got into a heated debate with Congressman Ron Paul. This morning, after he presumably received a great deal of criticism from Paul fans and/or read the general web buzz that declared Paul the victor, Krugman took to his blog to insult the congressman and his fans:

For a while, it’s been clear for a while that Stephen Colbert’s Super PAC has been raising a lot of money. But, did you know that it’s raising much more than the Super PAC of Ron Paul, an actual presidential candidate? It’s true. By a large margin.

Despite trailing Mitt Romney 685 to 63 in Republican delegates, Ron Paul doggedly affirmed he still could get enough delegates to seize the nomination. Appearing on CNBC’s Squawk Box, Paul told the panelists he would not quit the race when it was still technically possible to win. “Theoretically you can,” Paul doggedly asserted. “It’s not likely, but you can’t ever tell. Nobody knew Santorum was going to drop out [this month]. But only about a little over half the votes have been counted. When we come up with Texas and California, another third of the votes are yet to be counted so you don’t know. But in theory, you can. In practical counting, I think we’re very realistic.”

Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus is waiting on Newt Gingrich and Rep. Ron Paul before his party can officially say the general election has begun. This he told Jessica Yellin on John King USA last night, when asked repeatedly why he would not exercise the power of his position and just tell the last two remaining Republican candidates to go away. “People are tired of folks in Washington telling them what they should do,” he explained, responding that he wanted voters to decide whether Rep. Paul and Gingrich should remain in the race.

Libertarian techie nerds take heed! A Ron Paul video game is coming to your PC. Since the status-quo-loving political system makes it near-impossible for the Good Doctor to shake things up in Washington, you can finally put down that “End the Fed” poster and kick some virtual ass.

On Monday, the folks at Morning Joe brought on Politico’s Mike Allen to talk about Ron Paul‘s legacy… but not before celebrating host Joe Scarborough‘s birthday, as well as that of Rick Santorum‘s eldest daughter, Elizabeth. Cake for everyone! Tastes like “humanization.” And pomegranate.

A U.S. Army Reserve soldier who violated decorum by both appearing on CNN in support of presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) and speaking for him at a rally on election night in Iowa has been reprimanded for his conduct.

Presidential hopeful Ron Paul appeared on Piers Morgan‘s program last night, where he was asked by the CNN host why he doesn’t “just do the decent thing and pull out” of the GOP race.

Paul chuckled. “Why don’t you do the decent thing and not pester me with silly questions like that?” he asked Morgan. “That would be decent of you.”

Republican hopeful Ron Paul stopped by the The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on Tuesday night and spoke out against Secret Service protection. “It’s a form of welfare, having tax payers pay to take care of somebody,” Paul explained. “I’m an ordinary citizen and I would think I should pay for my own protection.”

Chris Christie is rapidly emerging as Mitt Romney‘s most valuable surrogate and he came out swinging this week in Chicago, telling an audience at a rally to be “very leery” of members of Congress– which, of course, all the remaining non-Romney candidates are. Namely, he phrased it as putting “another member of Congress” in there, implying that much of President Obama’s faults are beyond ideology and boil down to experience.

Like the Yangtze River Dolphin, embedded Ron Paul reporters are going extinct. NBC’s Anthony Terrell, the final embedded Ron Paul reporter is being pulled off the campaign trail, Politico’s Dylan Byers reports.

Today’s Southern primaries are delegate rich and possibly make-or-break for some Republican candidates, notable Georgian Newt Gingrich, who had only South Carolina and Georgia to his name coming into today’s race. For now, we at least know that the numbers in Alabama appear to show Rick Santorum has taken that state away from Gingrich, and NBC is projecting him the winner.

In the twilight of the Alabama and Mississippi Republican campaign season, former Rep. Michele Bachmann campaign head Ed Rollins visited Shepard Smith for some final thoughts on the race and the money pushing it forward. Rollins argued that the continuance of the race could be attributed almost single-handedly to SuperPACs, noting that without them, Mitt Romney could have easily shut down Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich.

For many Republicans, the very real possibility of chaos in Tampa is nothing short of a nightmare. With the clear establishment choice, Mitt Romney, fulfilling the needs of those in power in style and resources but clearly lacking the substance the base of the party demands, many have begun to second-guess the new system that had led to such discord. Not it’s creator, Michael Steele, however, who explained today that the Republican primary, as far as he is concerned, is going all to plan.

Fox News’ Martha Maccallum interviewed Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul on Super Tuesday and was curious about Paul’s recent comments that he wasn’t seeking power. “You said you believe that was the problem with the other candidates and so many in Washington that they weren’t driven by a mission as you so clearly are. that everybody else is tonight for power. Is that what you believe?” “It’s not strictly about me because i’m not looking for any power at all,” Paul acknowledged. “But I do want to have influence on the future of the country.”

A new poll from Fox News Latino released today is proving what many pundits have predicted for some time about the 2012 election: for Republicans, it will be an uphill battle, and a Latino on the ticket would help. But as with many surveys, the devil lies in the details– namely, the finding that Latin American voters of all stripes are concerned with jobs, the economy, and education far more than with immigration.

Contrasted with Newt Gingrich‘s insistent rhetoric on how President Obama should not be apologizing to the Muslim world for the Quran burnings that took place at a U.S. military camp in Afghanistan last month, Ron Paul said on CNN’s State of the Union today that it wasn’t necessarily the wrong thing to do. However, Paul did say it was irrelevant because an apology will do very little to sway the feelings of the Muslim world, and said that beyond any one apology, a change in U.S. foreign policy might be necessary.

Mitt Romney is currently leading the Republican delegate count with 180 to his name, while Rick Santorum has only half of that and Newt Gingrich only holds 29 delegates, just slightly more than Ron Paul. Gingrich appeared on This Week earlier today, and George Stephanopoulos told Gingrich that at this point in the race, it is almost mathematically impossible for him to amass enough delegates by the convention to have an uncontested race, and any sort of surge on Gingrich’s part will lead to a brokered convention.

One of the biggest challenges Ron Paul faces in the Republican presidential race is the fact that he has not won a single contest in any state as of yet. Paul appeared on Face the Nation this morning live via satellite from Alaska, where he hopes for a strong showing, and Bob Schieffer asked Paul if he really wants to win the Republican race, given his progress at this point, or if he has another reason entirely for running in the presidential election.

The 2012 election is a first for Sarah Palin, the first in which she is both a nationally recognized and followed figure and also not on the ballot, and with the Alaska primary coming up, Palin visited Greta Van Susteren yesterday to handicap the chances each candidate had in her home state. Seeing the vote as a battle between Mitt Romney and Rep. Ron Paul, she implored the party to keep their eye on the Democrats, noting that voters in her state were “tired of the pettiness within that GOP process.”

The entire galaxy seems to be up in arms about the contraception mandate, and Rush Limbaugh’s subsequent remarks to Sandra Fluke. Meanwhile, Ron Paul told Piers Morgan that the whole debate is “silly” As an obstetrician-gynecologist, Paul has a degree of expertise on the subject, but rather than address the moral implications, or health impact his take on the issue was altogether different.

On Thursday, CNN’s Piers Morgan invited GOP presidential hopeful Ron Paul onto his show, where he asked him about having been “Mr. Nice Guy” over the course of the Republican race until the release of a recent attack ad aimed at the other three candidates.

Paul felt Morgan’s description of the ad as “down and dirty” was a little “over the top.”