"If for some reason I'm not the nominee, you'll get your money back" Team Romney assures skittish business donors, who no longer want to throw good money into a losing campaign that they aren't particularly committed to ideologically.

"We want to buy access from a winner", the executives say, "not put money into the campaign of a guy who the futures markets give a 12% chance now of being the nominee... and why is this meeting being held publicly in front of the press this time?"

"Sorry about wasting $5.5 million in SC and Florida so far, but we're going to have to quit running ads there and throw everything we have into another silver medal in Michigan," Mitt replies.

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