(Updated) One More Down and Counting
Bowing to the inevitable, Mitt Romney reportedly has suspended his quixotic run for the presidential nomination after winning only a small handful of states in the first month of primaries while squandering his sons’ inheritance in spending an outrageous $1.6 million per delegate won only to eat John McCain’s dust.
In a swan-song address this afternoon to the Conservative Political Action Committee in Washington that was Romney at his disingenuous best, he opted for dividing since he couldn’t conquer, declaring that he was falling on his sword because:
“If I fight on in my campaign, all the way to the convention, I would forestall the launch of a national campaign and make it more likely that Senator Clinton or Obama would win. And in this time of war, I simply cannot let my campaign, be a part of aiding a surrender to terror.”
The former Massachusetts governor is the latest Republican wannabe to learn to hard way, as did Rudy Giuliani, that being a liberal or moderate in conservative drag not only is a bad fit but doesn’t fool anyone in the ideologically rare air of GOP politics.
Romney had even out-Giulianied Rudy as a flip flopper, changing his stripes on abortion, stem cell research, gun control, the minimum wage, gay marriage and gays in the military, and nowhere more so than on health care where his views were a carbon copy of Clinton’s until he got the presidential itch.
The mathematical odds against Romney prevailing grew expodentially after he was trounced in the Super Tuesday primaries, giving McCain a commanding 703-293 lead in delegates. Mike Huckabee has 190, with 1,191 needed to clinch the nomination, meaning that Romney would have to win more than 80 percent of the delegates in play over the next month to remain competitive..
Romney’s exit is a further complication for hard-core conservatives who are dead set against McCain. Some conservatives had showed tepid support for Romney, but are now left with McCain, Huckabee and Ron Paul.
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[...] Political Nanny wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptThe GOP: One More Down and Counting February 7th, 2008 by Shaun Mullen Bowing to the inevitable, Mitt Romney reportedly has suspended his quixotic run for the presidential nomination after winning only a small handful of states in the first month of primaries while squandering his sons’ inheritance in spending an outrageous $1.6 million per delegate won only to eat John McCain’s dust. Romney is the latest Republican wannabe to learn to hard way, as did Rudy Giuliani, that being a liberal [...]
[...] The Moderate Voice – Domestic and international news analysis, irreverent comments, original reporti… wrote an interesting post today on The GOP: One More Down and CountingHere’s a quick excerptThe GOP: One More Down and Counting February 7th, 2008 by Shaun Mullen Bowing to the inevitable, Mitt Romney reportedly has suspended his quixotic run for the presidential nomination after winning only a small handful of states in the first month of primaries while squandering his sons’ inheritance in spending an outrageous $1.6 million per delegate won only to eat John McCain’s dust. Romney is the latest Republican wannabe to learn to hard way, as did Rudy Giuliani, that being a liberal [...]
The usual BS from the right: A Democratic victory would be surrendering to terror. Honestly, what utter nonsense.
[...] The Moderate Voice – Domestic and international news analysis, irreverent comments, original reporti… wrote an interesting post today on (Updated) One More Down and CountingHere’s a quick excerpt(Updated) One More Down and Counting February 7th, 2008 by Shaun Mullen Bowing to the inevitable, Mitt Romney reportedly has suspended his quixotic run for the presidential nomination after winning only a small handful of states in the first month of primaries while squandering his sons’ inheritance in spending an outrageous $1.6 million per delegate won only to eat John McCain’s dust. In a swan-song address this afternoon to the Conservative Political Action Committee in Washington that [...]
Well, you're overreacting. The word, for the record, is “terrorism,” not “terror” [sic].
As to security, most have seen the Dems as weaker; their record and the nature of their liberalism makes this logical and obvious. However, it certainly didn't result in another strong GOP win in 2006, and things look even worse for the GOP this year.
Actually, Shaun got this one right and didn't even engage in any demented gratuitous Bush-bashing this time.
I had been on the road earlier today and heard someone call in to give the guys at NPR a reality lesson — he was thinking of staying home this November because the GOP has moved leftward over the past several years and is definitely becoming Dems Lite, complete with Big Government and special interest group influence, and McCain is too liberal for him and many other people who want a truly conservative alternative to the Democratic Party New-Deal-Great-Society-and-beyond institutional monster in Washington.
I wonder how McCain did at CPAC. Heh…
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/…
“A Democratic victory would be surrendering to terror. Honestly, what utter nonsense.”
Obama handled this very well, in fact — very well:
“That’s the kind of poorly thought through statement that led him to have to drop out,” Obama said. “It’s a classic attempt to appeal to people’s fears that will not work in this campaign. And I think that’s part of the reason he was such an ineffective candidate.”
“No Democrat has suggested that we surrender to terrorism. Democrats have suggested that we start withdrawing out of Iraq so we can focus our attention on terrorism. But, you know, it’s a classic example of trying to conflate the war against real enemies with the failed strategy of the Bush Administration in Iraq. ” Obama said in response to a follow-up question. “It’s those sort of glib statements that I think got Romney consistently in trouble in this race.”
http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/politics/b…
[...] Mullen is thinking along the same lines: The former Massachusetts governor is the latest Republican wannabe to learn [the] hard way, as did [...]