With Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Florida in the rear view mirror, the candidates took to Nevada to keep racking up points on the delegate count. There is no doubt now, with all networks confirming, that Mitt Romney will come out of this campaign the victor, with 41% of the vote, with 11% of precincts in according to NBC News.

A man who brought a Rep. Ron Paul sign to a Newt Gingrich rally is now suing the former House Speaker and his security team for, among other things, assault. Eddie Dillard, it was reported last week, arrived at a Gingrich event in Florida and was deemed to be too close to the stage where Gingrich was speaking, sporting a “Ron Paul” sign. He told reporter campaign security staff told the crowd to step on his toes.

In his personal life, Rep. Ron Paul is known for being a conservative family man that opposes most excesses, but by virtue of being a libertarian candidate, he attracts supporters from all walks of life. This week on Freedom Watch, Judge Andrew Napolitano spoke to two of those supporters, employees at Nevada’s “Bunny Ranch” who believe that Rep. Paul is “the modern-day Thomas Jefferson” and trust his ability to lead.

Piers Morgan got to sit down with Rep. Ron Paul last time and ran the gamut of topics– from Mitt Romney to the Congressman’s exercise regimen. Rep. Paul was relaxed and cheerful to be there, but was taken a bit by surprise when Morgan tried to explain Rep. Paul’s position in the race, and found himself comparing Rep. Paul to Sylvester Stallone.

Piers Morgan interviewed Ron Paul on Friday, in a wide-ranging interview that touched on everything from Paul’s views on abortion to Mitt Romney‘s comments on not being concerned with the “very poor.”

Ron Paul was not impressed with Donald Trump’s endorsement of Mitt Romney Thursday and sent out a campaign email lambasting the media’s extensive coverage.

Despite coming in fourth place in the Florida GOP primary, Republican hopeful Ron Paul stayed optimistic about his prospects. “If enthusiasm wins elections, we win hands down!” Paul quipped. “You know, a few months ago, there were — how many candidates were there? There were nine. We’re down to four. But tonight, tonight, I saw a statistic we’re in third place when it comes to delegates! That’s what really counts.”

Eddie Dillard, a loyal supporter of Ron Paul, was met with opposition Monday at a Baptist Church in Windermere, Florida. The source? Newt Gingrich‘s security team.

Tuesday’s Andrea Mitchell Reports was off-the-heezy when MSNBC homegirl Andrea Mitchell — or A-Meezy — breathlessly reported, “Fo shizzle? Did Snoop Dogg really just endorse Ron Paul!?” Oh no she didn’t!

Snoop Dogg — the undisputed voice of the people — has voiced his support for a GOP candidate. On Sunday, the rapper and actor posted an image of Ron Paul to Facebook, accompanied by the gentle suggestion to “Smoke Weed Everyday.” Snoop captioned the image with a simple “because I said so.”

On Monday morning’s Fox And Friends, co-host Steve Doocy cited a recent study from the Center for Media and Public Affairs at George Mason University that showed Mitt Romney receiving overwhelmingly negative coverage from the three broadcast networks and Fox News. One interesting result that was buried in that study: while Romney received 78% negative coverage from the broadcast networks, Rep. Ron Paul got a whopping 89% positive coverage from CBS News.

Last week, Senator Rand Paul was detained by the TSA and subjected to a pat-down. The White House disputed this chain of events, but the senator stood by it. Ron Paul stuck up for his son in the coming days, and on CNN’s State of the Union, Paul went down a list of problems he has with the TSA and why it should be abolished. Candy Crowley asked Paul what he would put in the place of the TSA. Paul answered that it could easily be handled by the private sector, and insisted the government has no place being involved in it.

Republican hopeful Ron Paul stopped by John King USA and hit back at former GE CEO Jack Welch who earlier called for him to step down from the race. “The former GE CEO Jack Welsh doesn’t think you’ll win the nomination but he also says the Republican Party better be careful. Do you feel the party’s treating you well, sir?” “I think they’re making an attempt to do so. And I think he has something going there,” Paul observed.

Reuters announced just a few days ago that former GE CEO Jack Welch and his wife Suzy would be writing a weekly column for them. Their first one appeared today and they have been absolutely everywhere promoting it. Fortunately, it’s a bit of a doozy. In the column, they argue that Ron Paul will definitely not be receiving the GOP nomination but, even after he drops out, he’ll still be deciding the election thanks to his incredibly passionate base.

Former GE CEO Jack Welch and his wife Suzy appeared on CNN’s Starting Point and told host Soledad O’Brien that they were calling upon Ron Paul to drop out of the race — although all of their kids were for Ron Paul! “You know, Ron Paul’s followers are not party regulars. He’s not a party regular. He really has these very, very impassioned followers. All four of our children are huge Ron Paul followers,” Suzy acknowledged. “So we’re living with this.”

Last night, former Alaska governor Sarah Palin spoke with Fox Business Network’s John Stossel about how GOP presidential hopeful Ron Paul “hit the nail on the head” when he warned Barack Obama to be careful when interjecting us in other countries’ business.

Bill Maher took a break from his regular hosting duties on HBO today to stop by Anderson Cooper 360º and review the State of the Union address. He didn’t have too much negative to say about President Obama, and surprisingly little mean to say about at least one Republican candidate– Rep. Ron Paul, who he called “crazy” but praised for his courage.

I’m from Miami and my background is Cuban, so I’m pretty much in line with the sort of voter (or, at least, the offspring of the sort of Cuban-born voter) that the Republican candidates were catering (and/or pandering) to when talk turned to Cuba during Monday night’s NBC debate.

So it’s with painful awareness that I admit to being fully aware that these four men aren’t generally very concerned about Cubans in the U.S. beyond recognizing that we’re a demographic they’d like on their side come election time.

After a few rounds of questioning where the candidates discussed the 2008 housing crisis, the Iranian political situation, a couple of new moderators and a 3 AM phone call that Fidel Castro is dead, the candidates finally got to chatting about illegal immigration, and the first question– a general one asking for a solution– went to Mitt Romney. He began with a simple answer to the 12 million and counting displaced foreign nationals: “self-deportation.”

“Lord knows everyone knows each other by now,” Brian Williams noted as the start of this first debate in Florida. And the debate did start off at a pace that felt absolutely glacial compared to the fireworks within the first minute of last Thursday’s. But after a few warmup rounds, Mitt Romney started landing blows on Newt Gingrich‘s career at Freddie Mac as an “historian,” and had him cornered until Gingrich piped up and asked, “What was the gross revenue of Bain while you were working there?”

During a White House press briefing, White House press secretary Jay Carney said that the Obama Administration stood beside the Transportation Security Administration in the wake of Kentucky Senator Rand Paul being detained at the Nashville International Airport.

The conventional wisdom throughout the weekend was that the longer the fight between the GOP candidates goes on, the more it hurts the party. Well, Rush Limbaugh has never been one for conventional wisdom. Today, Limbaugh continued putting forth his feeling that it would be great to see the fight go all the way to the convention. But he noted the worry that many Republicans seemed to have about it, theorizing that they never thought they could beat President Obama, were only trying to get control of both the House and the Senate, and are in a “full-blown panic” now simply because they don’t think a Newt Gingrich nomination can do that for them.

It’s been a very, very wild ride for former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich– one that began with what appeared to be a quixotic campaign against presumptive nominee Mitt Romney, took a nosedive when his campaign staff resigned en masse, peaked too early before Iowa, fell once again as the focus shifted to Rick Santorum and Jon Huntsman, and here we are again, I guess it must be fate.

During CNN’s South Carolina debate, the audience erupted in jeers when John King tried to switch topics from abortion before letting Congressman Ron Paul give his two-cents. “All right, let’s take another question,” King said, before being interrupted by the crowd to let Paul respond. “Let’s take a question now from social media question — before we move on, you want in on this issue?”

Glenn Beck has taken his GBTV operation to Texas, but just because he isn’t near his friend Bill O’Reilly doesn’t mean he will neglect to visit the Factor. O’Reilly returned to Fox News tonight to discuss Monday’s debate and give every candidate reviews, and Rep. Ron Paul got by far the worst of it as Beck shushed the candidate and told him he sounded like Osama Bin Laden.