What Am I Missing Here?

Rush obviously talked about the NH Primary vote on today's show. Now we know Rush can't stand Ron Paul. What I thought was interesting was his take on the exit polls.

You go to Ron Paul, 33% of his voters, according to exit polls, were somewhat liberal; 24% were moderate; 0 were very liberal.  So 57% of the voters that voted for Ron Paul were not Republican conservatives.

Now obviously Ron Paul is not going to appeal to the Santorum Conservatives that want to go to war with Iran. Therefore, moderate Republicans are obviously going to vote for Romney...right? But wait,

Romney, however, wants Ron Paul to stay in.  Everybody is urging everybody else to get out of this except for Ron Paul.  They want Ron Paul to keep pounding away at Santorum and Newt.  They want Ron Paul to continue to get big numbers and take away any high second- or third-place finishes from Santorum or Gingrich or Perry or anybody else.  So the powers that be realize the monkey wrench that Ron Paul represents.  Ron Paul is a conservative killer.  Ron Paul kills the conservative vote, and the Romney camp wants him in there, encouraging him to stay in there.

What am I missing here? Isn't this backwards? If they didn't vote for Ron Paul, wouldn't they be voting for Mitt Romney? Could it be that Conservatives that really want the Constitution followed are voting for Ron Paul?