Breaking: Romney Suspending Campaign
CNN is reporting that Romney is suspending the campaign. I guess he is hoping McCain has a heart attack. Unfortunately, it means that the R’s will have a candidate from now until November.
h/t Tyler
UPDATE:
It just occured to me that now Republicans get to pick between the guy who wants to stay in Iraq for 100 years and the guy who thinks the earth is 10,000 years old.
Tags: 2008 Presidential
Though they are cautiously reporting it as “suspend”, NBC reports that his advisers are saying “he is out”.
Thanks for the update.
Those videos of him running to the left of Ted Kennedy will still be around when he comes back.
Yeah, but a McCain-free race is a win for Romney. I’m not saying that I would like to see something happen to McCain, but strange things do happen.
I went out on a limb a month ago on WDEL and said in six weeks it would be down to McCain and Huckabee.
Was heartening to hear that Mitt’s entire family endorsed the decision.
Uh, except for his dog, who has run away…
I think the choice is between the guy who thinks the Earth is 10,000 years old and the guy that is old enough to actually know Adam and Eve.
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.
What a f*cking idiot. Did all the leaderhsip of the Republican party go out and get labotomies?
Did all the leaderhsip of the Republican party go out and get labotomies?
I think that a lobotomy is the price of entry in the current neo-con and christian nationalist version of the repub party.
Heh… he Quitt.
Well it is looking good for the democratic party.
No counting chickens yet…
You forgot that the Goopers could also opt for their candidate who believes that 95% of all African Americans don’t have legitimate political opinions.
http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/vol16/issue9/pols.paul.side.html
Wow, what a choice. 100-Year McCain or 10,000-Year Retard.
Dana,
No one* is going to opt for Paul.
*”No one” may represent more than 1% of the American populace.
I just heard on TV the comment nemski quoted in #8. Holy shit. This guy actually had a chance at the Presidency?
Reality check –
“Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean on Wednesday voiced concern over the prospect of a brokered convention at the end of the party’s White House nominating contests.
“The idea that we can afford to have a big fight at the convention and then win the race in the next eight weeks, I think, is not a good scenario,” Dean said according to excerpts of an interview with NY1 television. ”
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080206232326.2nxp3bd8&show_article=1
(insert tongue in cheek) According to Bishop Usher, who added up all the begats in the Bible, the earth was created in October 4004 B. C. That makes it only about 6000 years old. Not 10,000 years old.
I’m certain that the Huck would not gainsay Mr. Usher. After all, Mr. Usher was a Bishop. Even though Southern Baptists don’t have Bishops.
All they have these days are Pharisees.
The Geology Dept. in my college used to hold a birthday party for the earth every year.(Remove tongue from cheek.)
McCain – Hagel ’08.
That’s what I’m talkin’ bout.
(One can wish.)
No offense to my DL friends, but y’all have a rough road ahead.
We will sooner see a Romney-McCain ticket than an Obama-Hillary/Hillary-Obama ticket.
This leaves you with lotsa blue Tuesdays ahead. A hot summer with lots of lawyers and brains but no ideas or clues.
Methinks we now have the jump here in “GOPerhead/”gooper” land on the national level. The factions will unite, if only from the catalyst of broad-brush vitriol you have thrown this way for so long in recent memory and will surely continue to share with us all.
As your party lets its blood and your would-be saviors mutually self-destruct into the fall, what can I say? Karma.
But beat your message onward in the meantime.
Anti-Bush (hell, I’ll lead that one for you).
Anti-Republican.
Anti-“conservative”.
Anti-everything-that-is not-Democratic Party-rising-and-dominating-all.
Back here on the home side I know I will be working for the type of overnment that gives not a rip for the saviors and their “rock star” hold on the dopey collective(-ist) imagination.
The Delaware GOP is a slate blank for the citizens to write, ready to welcome those of good faith and a heart for pubic service.
We are far from perfect. We have issues. But we want to employ service versus patronage, innovation versus opportunism, talent versus status.
See you soon, somewhere ’round reality.
Once McCain’s foreign policy history comes out showing that he is by far a greater war monger than Bush, either Obama and Hillary won’t have a problem defeating him. I’ve been reading about it. It’s astonishing. It’s perfectly clear that a vote for McCain would be a vote for war w/ Iran and probably a vote for the draft as well.
The Republicans will be crushed in 08. Expect bigger Dem majorities in the House & Senate.
The DE GOP is but a microcosm of the national party: on life support.
To wit.
Here’s the only chance that I see for McCain. If he suddenly casts himself as the anti-Bush and takes swipes at Bush every chance he gets and finds himself a place in the middle. Then turn on the Dem and paint them as raving lunatic liberals.
He can solidify his maverick status while he is waiting on his opponent and then define the opponent in an unfavorable way.
At least that’s what they programmed him for in Hanoi… (That there’s a joke, son)