Romney vows to keep on fighting

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney vowed Sunday to fight Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) for the Republican presidential nomination beyond Super Tuesday.

Romney is facing increasingly long odds as McCain is pulling away in national polls and the GOP delegate system is set up in a way that favors the Arizona senator.

{mosads}However, the former governor said he is not about to throw in the towel in a race in which he has invested considerable amounts of his time and money.

“Of course I am going to contribute to the very campaign I’m asking other people to contribute to,” said Romney, who spent $35 million of his own funds on the race last year.

But the former governor also pointed out that he raised more money than any other Republican.

Romney, who accused the McCain campaign of dirty tricks after losing the key Florida primary last week, reiterated that criticism during an appearance on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos. The former governor said “the McCain campaign does its very best to try and characterize what I believe, and I think you’ve found time and again that they have stretched, twisted or completely walked away from the truth.”

Romney hopes that a coalition of conservatives unhappy with McCain could still propel him to the nomination and argued that his task is to “build the support among the base of our party to remind them that this is a battle, in some respects, for the heart and soul of the Republican Party…”