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Mitt Romney Calls It Quits
February 7th, 2008
Damnit. I was hoping he’d make a comeback against McCain (though I didn’t think he likely could) and then the general election would be a cake walk for Obama. McCain will draw from the middle. The only question is will the far right stay home or not.
Here’s CNN video of his punking out speech after he spent 35 million dollars of his own money - LOSER!
Listen to how at the begining of his speech they don’t realize he’s about to announce that he’s dropping out, and then when they realize that’s where he’s going they get all dejected.
Ha ha ha ha! Why does the misery of Mitt Romney supporters make me feel so good? I guess becasue I despise the man, and by extention despise anyone who would support him.
In your face Rush Limbaugh. All your drug addict rambling got repudiated by your own party, he didn’t get the votes on Super Tuesday, and now he’s out of the race.
Now it’s going to be funny seeing Ann Culter going for Hillary as she said she would if McCain gets the nomination. Her endorsement should ensure many new votes for Obama.
This announcement is both a gift and a curse. The gift is seeing Romney and right wing radio fall flat on their face; the curse is the easier to beat general election candidate is gone.
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I think a secret meeting took place between Romney and McCain…I just don’t understand any other reasoning…besides of course your punking out theory (which is good, mind you)…
Ann Coulter is the kiss of death…Go Obama!
It was the Republican Party that pulled him to the side and told him to step aside. That is what I believe and I’m sticking to it until I hear otherwise.
They know McCain is their only saving grace to keep the White House in Republican control.
I agree there must be a deal under the table, it would make more sense for Huckabee to call it quits than for Romney. Maybe he tired of using his money to campaign for something he know he’s not in a position to win, but I think it’s the former.
MarvalusOne, I doubt there was a secrete meeting, the two of them hate each other; and I don’t think McCain would offer him the VP nor would his arrogant ass want it.
I think it’s a combination of spending 35 to 40 million of his own money and needing to spend up to 20 million more just to have a chance; the fact that looking at the math he still had little chance even then; and wanting to save face, maintain some cache’, pretend he’s being the loyal party statesmen, and being able to run in 4 years if McCain loses or dies in office(the latter is likely if the first don’t happen).
Urban Thought, they couldn’t make him get out no matter what they pulled him aside and said; and Mitt Romney is no shrinking violet or powerless man.
They may have asked him too since the vote count was getting out of reach, and he probably agreed for the reasons I gave above as far as maintaining his cache’ as a party loyalist and with a strategy towards 2012 since he’s going.
Oh boy, this is a tough one.
I think that McCain made a deal with Huckabee - a minch that needs to clean his own house before he seeks another.
And regarding Limbaugh and Coulter, I didn’t think you could type both of those names in the same sentence without becoming ill. Of course Coulter isn’t going to stump for Ms. H. - and if she does here’s hoping she’s ineffectual.
As far as Romney spending $35M - hell, Hillary ‘loaned’ her campaign $35M and Bill’s treasure chest is worth about $200M but he won’t lend ‘The Wicked Witch of the East’ a dime unless he’s allowed to boff all the female pages.
I do hope Barack gets the nod and will pull this country together. God knows we need some coalescence!
Just imagine how it would be if we all came together as true brothers and sisters - not just paying lip service, but actually meaning it.
I know there are some of us who abhor the thought of us all being one big happy family and that’s okay. I think the majority would think it to be awesome. Not in my lifetime, but perhaps one day this will come to pass.
It better or we’ll all be at one another’s throats - and it won’t be a pretty picture.
MrsGrapevine, I have to disagree wtih you. Huckabee is on an up swinging, he’s peaking. People said he should get out before super tuesday and he finished the day with three times more primary/caucus wins then he had before the day started.
Romney was supposed to be the front runner, and was always a top tier candidate, and now his candidacy is going no where. That along with the fact that he doesn’t raise that much money, meaning he was just going to be spending tons of his own money to probably go nowhere, plus continuing to get embarrassed like he did on super Tuesday.
Huckabee has every reason to stay. To build his cache’ towards possibly being picked as VP, to be able to go write books and get high speaking fees after the campaing, and to carve out a larger place for himself in the elite of the Republican party. The longer he stays in the more his notirety grows. He’s pretty famous now, as opposed to the fact that outside of people who closely follow politics, he was practiclly unknown before the campaign.
Plus, what else is he going to go do; he looks like he’s having the time of his life to me, and he’s still winning primaries. He just won Kansas today.
Morgann, No, Coulter is not going to actually stomp for Clinton; but we already have the clip on youtube of her making the case for Hillary Clinton. If I was Obama people I’d use that at some point in campaign Ads. If she keeps on, then she can give the Obama camp more fader to use.