Breaking: Mitt Romney To Suspend His Presidential Campaign
By Logan Murphy Wednesday Feb 06, 2008 11:39am
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CNN is now reporting that 3 GOP sources tell them that Republican Mitt Romney will suspend his presidential campaign. Romney underperformed on Super Tuesday and it now appears he has no chance of beating Senator John McCain for the GOP nod. Goodbye, Mittens....
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I'll miss you, Ken Doll.
Not...
...we hardly knew you.
One less millionaire........Next!!!!!!!!!
Pretty pathetic when there's no chance of beating John McCain... totally and utterly pathetic!
he will be back in 4 years....
Magic Undwear: Not So Magic, After All
Bye-bye, Flip Flopper. We hardly knew you -- or your sorry attempts to buy the Presidency!!
http://osi-speaks.blogspot.com/2008/02/breaking-news-mitt-romney-will-bo...
"You dislike me.... You REALLY dislike me!"
apparently Mitt thinks a prolonged battle for the nomination would aide terrorists in a time of war, ... I shit younot, thats hwat he is saying.
I guess in the end it turns out that Mitt puts his magic underpants on one leg at a time just like everyone else.
Where will his next political gig be and under what alias will he be working--liberal, conservative or conservaliberal?
I feel like Admiral Ackbar in Episode 6 when the Rebellion took down that supermassive Star Destroyer in the final battle.
This is a good day for the United States of America.
"Yes, we can."
Americans have a pretty good track record of rejecting millionaires who think that they can buy their way into the presidency.
NO MITT NO!!!!!!!
Mitt was Robo-Candidate.
Crackpot! That will teach you to strap a dog on top of the car. Arsehole.
Love the line in his concession speech that his staying in the race would increase a Clinton or Obama win, thus surrendering to terrorists...
Couldn't bow down graciously, could ya, Mitt? Just had to get that one last shot in before you walked away with your tail between your legs.
Good riddance, you smug asshole!!!!
Paul In SF @ 11:
Really? Since when?
Paul In SF @ 11:
Hillary just wrote herself a check for $5 Mil. Sayin' is all.
DAMN!!! I wish Him, Rudy and the other nuts would stay in. The more competition, the more these nutjobs exposed their nuttiness, trying to out 'Regan' each other.
I mean, didn't you look forward to Rudy's next tortured use of 9/11 in a completely unrelated context?
Didn't you love watching Mitt beg for religious tolerance by professing how religious he was?
C-Span2 is carrying it live.
bling bling y'all!
tee..hee... hate media goes apoplectic.....
Gonna be funny to see Huck, Rob and McCain debates.
QUITTER!
You could have had so many more delegates if you just paid them the million-dollars-apiece that you spent for them in your meaningless campaign. Not very economical. Some businessman you are.
Too damn bad. Plus now everyone knows just what kind of a loser you are.
Mittens just said, inter alia, that "size does matter." It's one weird speech.
Na na na na, na na na na,
Hey Hey Hey
GOOD-BYE!
Na na na na, na na na na,
Hey Hey Hey
GOOD-BYE!
GOOD RIDDANCE!
I have never been more serious in my life, either! Democracy in this country itself dodged a bullet today!
RB-Chicago @ 21:
Now who's Glenn Beck Limpaws going to support? !
Guess now his 5 sons can sign up to serve in Iraq since they'll no longer be serving our country by campaigning for their dad!
@ Vermifax #10 - "IT'S A TRAP!!!"
who let the dork out?
But, my brother-in-law the Republican said Mitt was the obvious best candidate. How can this be?
Sweet. one down. Now McCain next. Then Huckabee.
LOL He's talking about 'merka being the best 'weapon' for peace and how poor ol' 'merkan culture is being 'attacked'.
Sing the reslug theme song loud and proud mittens "War war war war war war war... doo daaaaa dooo daaaaa, war war war war war war war, profits all day lonnnnnng"
[sung to the tune of camptown races]
Um... "Opportunities in our dna?" is he fucking kidding? Hey mittens your elitist underwear is showing.
Lets seal the deal: James Dobson should declare his candidacy immediately. He should run as the Evangelical candidate and the perfect person to split the Repug vote.
In fact all right-wing fundies should write-in Dobson as their man this November whether he's on the ballot or not.
Anyone care to start this movement?
Go Huckabee!
McCain could beat the dem Huckabee doesn't stand a chance. The repubs I have talked with can't vote for either McVain or Mitt or Huck. So they are staying home! and the poll numbers show that as well, with dem voters in the 100's of thousands and erpubs in the 10's of thousands. With those numbers we really should win the WH.
America, brace yourself! Without Romney's campaign spending, a serious and deep recession is on the horizon.
elvis @ 28:
Mitt will conveniently now say that the Iraq War is just not worth it and we should have never gone in.
It's a 2-pig race!
Rusty Shackleford @ 31:
Tell your sister to get a divorce.
I bet huck celebrates tonight by frying extra squirrels in his popcorn popper.
Mark @ 32:
Agreed. I consider myself an economic Conservative and I can say flat out that no matter who wins out of McCain and Huckabee I will be voting for someone else. At least the Democratic candidates have some idea about how the economy works. McCain stated he knows nothing about it and Huckabee sounds like he is running to be a grand inquisitor for the Spanish Inquisition.
All he can talk about is how the libruls are giving away money to the undeserving masses and how the reslugs have to "end entitlement" LOL!!!
Hilarious! Coming from him it's fucking high comedy!
i smell the work of Larry Flynt all over this
Travis @ 6:
Yes, let's focus on what's sacred in his religion rather than his political beliefs.
Pershaps, had he been a Jew, you could have said "Guess that yamika didn't get you aHEAD! HA HA HA"
Fucking moron.
pissed off patricia @ 40:
Ouch! I can just picture those furry little critters hopping and popping!
Thanks for a good laugh.
Buh-bye.
mrplow @ 44:
The only difference between Mormonism and Scientology is a handful of decades. Seriously, read up on Joseph Smith and get back to me with your accusations of bigotry. Mormonism is nothing but a cult run by hucksters.
"WTF !!??!?!"
-CPAC-
mrplow @ 44:
don't get yer magic underwear in a bunch, it was funny. Besides, Mittens had no political beliefs.
pissed off patricia @ 40:
More than likely Huck will celebrate by having some suspected witches his minions caught burned at the stake.
Travis @ 47:
Dumb, Dumb, Dumb, Dumb, Dumb... Dumb Dumb... Dumb Dumb !
Travis @ 47:
It's all crap. Doesn't matter what era the hucksters come from.
*sings* na-na-na-na, na-na-na-na, hey, hey-ay, good-bye.
Sorry about draining your bank account for nothing, hahaha!
Joe O. @ 50:
With a dog sacrifice by his son for the climax.
Travis @ 47:
What? You don't believe in "seeing stones"?
Undercover Brother @ 43:
oh man, that would be brilliant!
the best part is the Guy Smiley is $20 million lighter in the wallet.
maybe now his boys can stop serving america by rolling around in the motorhome and join the military.
goatsage @ 55:
"Oh wow, seeing stones, can I use them?"
"Uhmmm...no"
Can I have one of Mitt's gold medals?
mrplow @ 44:
What Travis wrote is pretty much paraphrases what was said on the CNN clip.
i'd say this is great exciting, but i wanted him win over mccain.
owning mittens in debates would have been a blast.
But he's joining the Democratic race!
Romney's smile doesn't seem to be forced (as he gives his withdrawal speech). I think he's happy for it to be over.
Wha,wha,wha...... Don't let the door hit ya on the way out!
no more mittens the pander-bear? :(
MEANIES!
Mitt leaving is really no big deal. You didn't think the GOP would nominate a Massachusetts LIBERAL to the WH did ya ?
Mutt attacked the majority of America during his farewell rant; moderates, libruls, unions, anti-war, pro-choice, pro-education, pro-health, anti-murder, anti-death, etc., etc., etc.,
Travis @ 47:
Or, on the superficial level you're apparently operating on, a handful of celebrities.
This leaves them with McCrazy and Huckanuts. Do I smell a Crazy Ticket?
Don Davis @ 61:
well, he IS a liberal.
Dr. Matt @ 66:
His audience was CPAC.
'nuff said.
goatsage @ 55:
Nope. And i don't believe in burning bushes, or parted red seas, or Muhammad as a prophet, 72 virgins, L. Ron Hubbard, or creationism.
But I also don't mock any of them for it. Because it breeds hatred, and when it all boils down, people are all the same. Tolerance means respecting other people's beliefs, not just the ones who you're not afraid of. Would you be writing this kind of shit about muslims? Mocking a mormon's "magic underwear" is no different that mocking a muslim's "raghead." you can tell me to get off it all you want. Equality goes both ways, bigotry is bigotry.
The wingnuts couldn't put aside their bigotry to support a Mormon.
Ya think they're gonna allow a black or woman into the White House.
Nope.
The Dems have given them fuel to rocket them to the voting booths on election day.
Travis @ 47:
Huckster? I thought he was an evanvelical christian? And as such I thought he was head of the morons, not mormons!
Chico @ 70:
Of course. CPAC = the lowest common denominator in society.
Chico @ 65:
Instead there going to nominate an Arizonian Liberal?
Hey! Filthy Harry:
"DAMN!!! I wish Him, Rudy and the other nuts would stay in. The more competition, the more these nutjobs exposed their nuttiness, trying to out ‘Reagan’ each other."
Don't forget! Ron Paul is still in. So we have McCain (who will drop out for health reasons), God Hearts Huckabee and Ron Paul. Suddenly Ron Paul is looking better and better. If it weren't for Paul's damn stand against our unconstitutional invasion and occupation of Iraq, he'd probably have Rush and Ann backing him instead of Clinton. It just gets curiouser and curiouser......
So, for the moment you still have those 3 nutjobs left to shit talk about! Look on the bright side!!
Rusty Shackleford @ 31:
Ha-ha!! My brother too.
Liberal AND Proud @ 72:
As we did last time with abortion. Dem numbers in the primaries are really high, repubs are really low, and gonna be a lot of repub no shows in the general election. GOTV on election day.
Will he get his money back?
BobD @ 78:
Start by registering people now.
Only in the Republican party will you find that the dumbest bastards rise to the top (Ex. Bush). We shall soon see who the dumbest of them all is.
Things are going to be very interesting at CPAC this afternoon when Romney officially announces the suspension.
And then McCain is supposed to show up... Dare say he's going to need the same protection he had going into that Iraqi marketplace.
Well at least now his boys are free to join the military now that they are no longer serving the country by getting Papa elected.
In the last debate he said his 2nd biggest regret in life was not joining the military , an obvious lie like so many things this asshole has said . I guess he will now have to move that to number 3 and being a crazy ass MORMON to number 2 . You can also say goodbye to Muck Hickabee .
Huckanuts... I like it. Has a good ring.
Now Billary needs to do the same and recognize she now stands in the way of the inevitable...
Oh good- now his sons can enlist.
mrplow @ 71:
But I also don't mock any of them for it. Because it breeds hatred, and when it all boils down, people are all the same. Tolerance means respecting other people's beliefs, not just the ones who you're not afraid of. Would you be writing this kind of shit about muslims? Mocking a mormon's "magic underwear" is no different that mocking a muslim's "raghead." you can tell me to get off it all you want. Equality goes both ways, bigotry is bigotry.
Islam is an ancient tradition based on an even more ancient tradition. Mormonism is a money-making scheme concocted by a 19th century con man, and in it's short history has been behind murders, racist and sexist policies, and attempts to subvert the US government. And grouping in Scientology with legitimate (i.e.: not for profit) religions shows that in your eager rush to decry any criticisms as bigotry you managed to actually learn anything about the topic you're discussing. As hesitant as I am to ever cite it as a source, I am begging you to go read the wikipedia entries on Mormonism, Joseph Smith, Scientology, and L. Ron Hubbard.
Inherent disdain and distrust for confidence schemes and murderous cults isn't the same thing as bigotry.
Im so glad this asshole is gone. Of everyone running he was the worst of the bunch.
Cat Atomic @ 87:
It will more than likely be the wives of his sons that enlist first. In families like that, the women tend to have more balls than the men.
Abbybwood @ 76:
Yeah but McCain will effectively ignore Huck, and the media will ignore RonPaul. The media narrative which they will follow like the faithful servants they are is that McCain IS the nominee.
He gave the "time of war" bullshit.
Buh Bye.
Tim @ 75:
True dat, but thanx to Kennedy and Kerry, GOP'ers see Mass. as Hell on Earth. Arizona is still "OK" with them.....
..... for now.
Tim @ 75:
BOMB BOMB BOMB...BOMB BOMB IRAN...plays very well in Arizona...and New Mexico, Tennessee, Texas, Illinois, Iowa, the Dakotas, West Virginia....
Two questions now answered:
Can a moron be president? Yes.
Can a Mormon be president? No.
This is NOT good news for Democrats. McShame is very popular with Independents, veterans and also conservative Dems (yes, there are conservative Democrats). Hillary would have a very difficult time against McShame. Obama could take him, I think, because of the marked differences in their energy, ages (hey, I'm McShame's age, so it's not ageism if I do it lol). McShame then would really represent the past while Obama shows us the future of our country. I only wish it could have been Edwards opposing McShame.
Joe O. @ 90:
There's an image I didn't need! LOL!
They must wear some reallllly interesting panties.
So I just read that Mitt is cuttin n' runnin so that he doesn't hurt any Repub's chances of getting into the White house this time:
(From CNN):
"In this time of war, I simply cannot let my campaign be a part of aiding a surrender to terror"
So to Mitt, that's what you're doing if you support Obama or Hillary instead of a Republican - surrendering to terror. WTF!!!!!
How do they get away with this shit?
Why doesn't he get tarred and feathered for spewing this kind of bullshit?
Why why why???????
Fuck you and good riddance Shitt! I guess you are pretty decent with numbers you phony asshat. You were nothing but a well dressed whore.
Joe O. @ 90:
Same could be said about the GOP in general.
If you have a military background (ie McCain, Hagle), they hate you and call you "weak on defense"
If you ran away from the military like a sissy (ie too many Repugs to list), they love you ans call you 'strong on defense'.
and yet, they wonder why Americans are bailing their party like rats on a sinking ship.
Bye bye ya plastic phony fake creep. It's bad enough when a right-winger is truly stupid or deluded and believes all that conservative crap -- but there's something really, truly creepy about Romney taking up far right-wing positions just to get elected. To me that is truly evil.
Having said that, he's probably smart to merely "suspend" his campaign. Looking at the actuarial survivorship tables for an angry 72-year old man who's lived a hard life and is now under a lot of stress (i.e., stress like a presidential campaign), there are some sound statistical reasons to postulate that McCain wouldn't necessarily live to see August, much less November. (His 95-year old momma notwithstanding -- remember, St. John got half his genes from his daddy, who died at age 70). Don't misinterpret what I'm saying, I'm not wishing McCain any ill, I'm just looking at this the way an insurance carrier might -- McCain's old, he's prone to anger, and he's under a lot of stress. So the Romney saga isn't necessarily over. Wonder what might happen on the Republican side if John McCain dies or is incapacitated? Don't think there aren't some backroom brokers who haven't already thought about this.
Old Billy @ 77:
My BIL also said that the nomination was "a done deal" - for Rudy. This was at Thanksgiving.
My BIL is a great guy, but not so good at the prognosticatin'.
Mitt, you've got four more years to try to flip and flop and adopt new positions you think will get you elected. Now get cracking and start triangulating, you empty, gormless, cyborg-with-a-newscaster-haircut cypher.
Patricio @ 98:
Cause it serves the purposes of the elites...and keeps the wingnut swing vote in line.
Bye Mitt. Thanks for your parting lecture on why the USA sucks. Maybe you can find another country you like more to 'save'.
At least now your sons will be freed up to join the military.
I can just hear the conversation with his sons: "but Dad, at the rate you're going there won't be any inheritance left for us and then what will we do? We'll have to get jobs or something...it's not fair!"
Oscar @ 92:
Please note that the "don't change horses" argument was one of the most effective in Nov 2004. At some level, but taking credit for the "successes" of the surge, McCain is using something quite similar, too.
"by taking credit" not "but taking credit"
Don't count him out. He merely "suspended" his campaign: watch the convention. Remember this is a guy who's changed his mind more often than his magic underwear. And there may be a deal cut here: Mitt for Veep?
Does this free up the Romney boys for military service in Iraq?
So the Mitt hit the fan.
Does this mean Ron Paul now has a chance?
audios, Mittens.
It's a real shame we won't be having another silver spoon frat boy that's never wanted for anything in his life to continue digging the hole...no, chasm, that duh-duh-W put us in.
Now Mitt, it's time for you and your 5 little mittens to put your money where your mouth is, volunteer to go to Iraq and lead the charge in this occupation that you promoted so passionately. Good riddance, you hypocrite!!!
With Romney out, what will Kathryn Jean Lopez and Mark Levin do for independent sexual fulfillment?
Just something to consider - if your stomach is strong enough.
So is this going to play well for McCain or Huckabee?
Most people think Mitt's votes would go to Huckster now, but I heard on PBS that when interviewed, Mitt voters said they would vote McCain if Mitt was not a choice...
PBS (dallas) may be trying to play down Huckabee...
I'm scared shitless to think of huckabee getting the nomination, not only because of what he would do to make this country 'christo-fascist' (my new term, think islamo-fascist), but because he would drive a lot of people to the polls... sadly if it were huckabee v clinton, a huge swath of the midwest would be painted red...
Rocky @ 112:
No, but thanks for asking.
Rocky @ 112:
Yeah. He has a shot at being a really good lobbyist.
$$$$$$$$$$ down the toilet....hardy har har
giantpeach @ 117:
Very few of the remaining states are good ones for Huckabee. It's over. It's McCain. The only question is Veep (and I don't see it being Romney, as he and McCain hate each other more than Reagan and Bush Sr. did at this stage).
Rusty Shackleford @ 104:
At least you can engage in a civil, rational discussion together. Count your blessings.
Please let Rush Limbaugh and Ann Culture commit suicide... Please ... Please .... I'm stabbing my Rush Voodoo doll right now...
Travis @ 90:
There are millions of Mormons in this country, therefore some are probably your neighbors or coworkers. If you actually had the decency to get to know any of them personally, you would also know how insulting your rhetoric is.
John McCain is the new Bob Dole of the GOP. The old guy whose turn it is to get the nomination, but who is doomed to lose the general election.
listening to tweety and peggy noonan from the wsj is making me ill.
"handing over the sword"????
im sure mitt's boys are on their way to iraq.
NO! SAY IT AIN'T SO! I always wanted a president named Mittens! Now what purpose does my life have?
Rocky @ 114:
It helps him if he chooses to Run 3rd party, because alot of social conservatives don't like McCain and may look elsewhere. Then again if he does run 3rd party, the media won't even have to put any effort into ignoring him without making it too obvious, as they are now.
It was always a lock for the dems anyway, but If Ron Paul runs 3rd party, then its a guaranteed lock for the dems.
Gary @ 129:
Ron Paul has been a repug since there was light. He will not leave the repug party.
So much money spent, quite good amount of delegates collected and then just -poff- 'I quit'. Wonder if the reasons he gave are truthful, perhaps no one had enlightened him that AQ were not based in Iraq prior to the invasion?
The other reason about unifying the party sounds more reasonable, however...do the general republican really like the iraq situation (thought 70% americans were opposed to the occupation) and can a party that looks upon McCain as a liberal (sigh...) flipflopper really unite behind him? Or is that just a clever pundit trick to get even more support for him?
Wonder were Mittens votes will go now. To the preacher of christ, the preacher of war or the preacher of freedom? Or will his name still be on the ballots? And what happens to the delegates he's already won, will they be 'independent' now?
Anyway, feels like a set race for the repubs now, only question is who will be McCains runnin buddy. Mr 911 or Liebermann perhaps?
Really hope that Obama and Clinton will fight for the title. But if not, the most possible scenario I can think of is one where Hillary is prez and Obama VP...does not sound well in my ears. Obama/Edwards sounds better...but ofc, for a socialist like myself (don't have a good grasp about Gravel) Kucinich/Edwards or vice versa felt best from the start.
All in all, from my POV your election system is very flawed. This is the first time I follow your primaries and here are some of the issues that troubles me.
1) Only two viable parties, seriously f-ed up. Because everyone can see that there are many opinions in those parties that never surface and would do much better in separate parties, but I guess they would not get a place in the general media. Also, the parties feels very alike on most issues.
2) Your media, 'scientific' polls and the first few states decide your frontrunners. Extreme bias here, makes the general public oftenly vote for someone that they believe have a better chance of winning rather than the one they truly feel represents them the best.
3) Primary election voter turnup (haven't checked the super tuesday states) feels very low for a country, according to the polls, so yearning for change and an end for the iraq war. Is it always this low (I know there is supposed to be record many that turn up this election, but it still feels like the large mass is ok with a minority deciding their candidates for them) in primaries?
Hopefully there will be a huge turnup, for the dem, in the general election. The world does not want to see another Bush-think-alike in the white house next year.
I'll try again. Ron Paul has been a repug since light. He will not leave his party for a third party run.
I'm beginning to think it will be a McCain / Romney ticket.
McCain will have to accept Romney as his VP to get "conservative" backing.
"Happy trails to you, until we meet again.......NOT"
"Happy trails to you, keep smilin' until then......NOT"
thanks...for nothing,
U.S (Uncle Sam) America
Gugamar @ 123:
Happen to catch a few minutes of Rush after word got out about Mittens. It was kinda sad. He's now as defiant as he is impotent.
Who does this leave on the Republican side now? The Jesus freak and the potato? Easiest election EVAR!
IdahoMoe @ 120:
If only... It doesn't actually go down the toilet. That would probably be better. A huge amount of it goes to big media... and the world keeps on spinnin'...
Thing Fish @ 133:
Well, stop now, before you hurt yourself.
Romney said that the wars must go on. He's such a fervent believer in them that he AND his sons are signing up today.
well, i guess ol' mitt will have to pack his trusty dog "dribbles" up onto the family station wagon and drive on into the sunset then...
gbye mitt! gbye! *sniff*
Gary @ 129:
paul is not a social conservative...he hates social conservatives and they hate him right back
if he were to form a 3rd party, he most likely would pull all the young wingnuts who dont want to fight in the occupation
More Liberal Media spin ... just yesterday Mitt's campaign manager clearly stated he'd be in it to the convention and then on to the White House, practically guaranteeing that Mitt would win.
Mitt wouldn't lie ...
Hey Mitt,
Come back when you cant stay as long.
peaceful easy feeling @ 124:
Lots of people watch American Idol and have voted for GWB as well- does this exempt them from scorn?
Poor choices are poor choices, regardless of how many people make them.
The only interesting element to the GOP race now is how long it takes the conservatives to circle the wagons around him. I'd say 24 hours but we have to at least pretend they have principles, so 26 hours tops.
Rocky @ 114:
Absolutely! All his supporters should send him a bunch more of their money.
call it what it really is...
Mitt Romney Drops out of Presidential Race to allow War Mongerer and Reich-Wing Evangelical candidates to duke it out.
There is no colon needed in the article's headline. The RNC strongarmed Romney to drop out to ease the way for McCain.
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McCain is a flip flopper too. I don't know why Romnay didn't go after him for that. I saw his speech on c-span, how can people swallow that stuff? Why didn't he just say "We will continue to give to the rich until there are only 2 classes left and then we will rule forever".
Who will get Romnay's votes? Could our little Baptist minister become an additional threat to our constitution?
At least now Romney doesn't have to keep paying people to high-five him.
How embarrassing to buy so many "supporters" who turn around and vote for McCain.
I don't understand, sez Mitt...I pushed the EASY button, but it turned out to be real hard!
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