Is the Paul campaign helping Romney in Michigan?

Of course, Romney has hit Paul hit in a ruthless way. He said last December that Paul was 'dangerous' and that there is no way Paul would get the nomination. He won't debate with Paul on the stage when asked to as he finds Paul not worth his time. He mocked Paul in 2008 when he spoke of the housing crisis and Fed. He has mocked Paul on a radio station being against cia, etc..

Paul hasn't come up in the polls to rival Romney other than in Iowa last Dec, so there is no reason Romney would attack him. Romney also did not attack Bachman or Pawlenty or Cain and to a limited extent in the past 2 weeks, Santorum. Since last Dec, Newt or Santorum or Huntsman never attacked Paul, so you shouldn't get all soft on Romney for what other candidates did as well.

Clearly, the MI ad only benefits Romney. Obviously, the neocon votes for Santorum would only go to Romney and maybe Newt. There is no benefit for Paul to go after Santorum when Santorum has not done so with Paul. Instead, Paul's votes would go up if he would use ads to focus on his platforms.

not Romney. The campaign needs to try and take him out, so that it is a two man race. (Newt is a non-issue, now.)

Ron Paul wants to run against Romney alone, because he knows he can beat him. The Romney camp has election fraud on their side, so they too want it to be a two man race. (Easier to program the Diebold machines.)

They may very well have a 'no personal attack' agreement. Ron Paul is definitely uncomfortable with attacking anyone personally. That may come from his experience as a doctor. He understands human nature very well.

(IMHO)

While there is a possibility of some secret agreement. I do not find it that likely. The fact they are nice to each other and stick up for each other I think is just because RP does not demagouge and Romney knows he may need RP's support (plus MR does not demagogue quite as much as NG or RS). Similarly I think RP attacking RS and not MR is just because Ron knows he needs to become the "conservative alternative" to Mitt if he is going to win. For that to happen he has to get newt and rick to drop out of the spotlight/race, otherwise the conservative alternative vote is split. So I really think it is just prioritizing, he knows he needs to take RS out before he can compete mono e mono with Mitt. Any attack on Mitt right now will cause those votes Mitt loses to split among the other candidates, until RP is the only conservative alternative. Just my view of the situation.

I've been following the campaign the entire campaign season and to me it seems there's a special understanding between Romney and Paul. I can't quite put my finger on exactly why, but Ron Paul will absolutely not attack Romney the way he attacks Newt and Santorum and vice versa, Romney simply won't attack Ron Paul and in fact defends Ron Paul when Hannity tries to get Romney to attack him in an interview, so that leads me to believe there must be some kind of agreement that we don't know about. Surely the Ron Paul campaign has something up their sleeve, I trust them that that is the case and I'm actually glad they aren't announcing it like they announced their delegate strategy.