Romney Drops Out of Race!

[Psycho4Bud]

Romney is suppose to be announcing this at the Conservative Conference.

This "would" leave McCain, Huckabee and Paul. IF this is true I wonder if he'll endorse McCain.....

Have a good one!:s4:

[Purple Banana]

Wow... He seemed like he had a lot going for him, I kind of liked him.

I don't think endorsing McCain at this point would really do anything... He's just... McCain. Hopefully he'll endorse Paul!

[Psycho4Bud]

He said he's dropping out because of the war effort. He backs McCains position on the war on terror and feels that the party would be better off when they face either Clinton or Obama.

Let the Dems drag each other over the coals for a few months more then have all the more resources to bury them in the national election. VERY good move for the GOP!:thumbsup:

Have a good one!:s4:

[Markass]

Romney suspends presidential campaign - CNN.com (http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/02/07/romney.campaign/index.html)

here's a link...

(CNN) -- Mitt Romney suspended his bid for the Republican presidential nomination Thursday, saying if he continued it would "forestall the launch of a national campaign and be making it easier for Sen. Clinton or Obama to win."
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Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is suspending his campaign.

"In this time of war, I simply cannot let my campaign be a part of aiding a surrender to terror. This is not an easy decision. I hate to lose," the former Massachusetts governor said.

"If this were only about me, I'd go on. But it's never been only about me. I entered this race because I love America, and because I love America, in this time of war I feel I have to now stand aside for our party and for our country."

Romney made the announcement Thursday afternoon at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington.

With Romney out, Sen. John McCain is locked in as the front-runner in the GOP race.

Romney had won 286 delegates in through the Super Tuesday contests, compared with McCain's 697.

The crowd booed when Romney mentioned McCain, saying, "I disagree with Sen. McCain on a number of issues." Video Watch as Romney bows out »
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"But I agree with him on doing whatever it takes to be successful in Iraq, on finding and executing Osama bin Laden, and I agree with him on eliminating Al Qaeda and terror worldwide," he said.

Democratic candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama saw Romney as a vulnerable candidate that they would rather run against instead of McCain, CNN senior political correspondent Candy Crowley said.

"They were looking at Mitt Romney as pretty doable in the political sense saying, 'This is a guy that has a record that we can really run with' and they ran with it in the Republican Party as you know, saying that he used to be pro-choice, now he's anti-abortion. He has changed his position on stem cells he has changed his position on gay unions, that sort of thing," she said.

As recently as Wednesday, Romney met with aides to discuss strategy to stay in the race through March 4.

Although he outspent his rivals, Romney received just 175 delegates on Super Tuesday, compared with at least 504 for McCain and 141 for former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, according to CNN estimates.

Romney came in first in Massachusetts, Alaska, Minnesota, Colorado and Utah on Super Tuesday. In the early voting contests, he won Nevada, Maine, Michigan and Wyoming.

After his win in the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses, Huckabee became Romney's chief rival for the party's conservative vote.

Huckabee on Tuesday won Arkansas, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama and West Virginia.

"Primaries are a killing field," said CNN senior political analyst Bill Schneider. "They take losing candidates and get their bodies off the field."

Suspending a campaign has a different meaning depending on the party.

On the Republican side, decisions on how to allocate delegates is left to the state parties.

On the Democratic side, a candidate who "suspends" is technically still a candidate, so he or she keeps both district and statewide delegates won through primaries and caucuses. Superdelegates are always free to support any candidate at any time, whether the candidate drops out, suspends or stays in.

National party rules say that a candidate who "drops out" keeps any district-level delegates he or she has won so far but loses any statewide delegates he or she has won.
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The 60-year-old former investment banker had touted his management credentials throughout the campaign, citing his experience in Massachusetts and his turnaround of the scandal-plagued 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.

But despite pouring millions of his own fortune into the campaign, he struggled after Huckabee upset him in the Iowa caucuses and McCain came from behind to beat him in the New Hampshire primary.

[killerweed420]

Good ridance. We don't need a cult member in the presidency.

[StickyfingahZ]

Romney would have been a pretty good president,Ron Paul first but I kinda liked Romney in a way.

[McLeodGanja]

Anyone watching McCain live on telly now? Another boring old grey haired twat in a suit, but I suppose at least he can string a sentence together. I reckon it's all a show, Romney bows out and instantly McCain takes the centre stage. It's a cunning ploy, they know as well as I do the general electorate are stupid and buy this kind of thing. Oh well, I've learned not to expect anything other than bullshit from politicians...

[dragonrider]

Adios, Mittwit! We shall miss your perfect hair and spectacular flips!

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

Good ridance! I like that guy least of all the candidates. His speeches sound oh-so inspiring; he has some great speech writers after all. But every time I've heard him answer a question he wasn't already prepared for, the man let off as the biggest phony I'd ever seen. Don't go off his inspiring well-written public talks, listen to him in the debates, or when a crowd-goer asks a pop-up question. He gives answers that don't mean anything, never says anything that might risk losing a vote. A slick salesman is all he is, and like a good salesman had lots of the voters fooled.

[dragonrider]

It's always funny how these guys deny they are going to drop out, insist they are in it to the end, and then BOOM, they're out! Their supporters are left going WTF? Weren't we in to the end?

The Republicans do a good job of narrowing their field quickly and then working on the November race. I will give them that. They don't bloody themselves as much in the primaries as the Democrats usually do. Earlier in the race, it seemed like the Democrats might pick a candidate early and it would be the GOP that would fight itself all the way through the primaries, but that's not the way it's shaping up. Hopefully Clinton and Obama don't tear each other to shreds.

[Rusty Trichome]

Good ridance. We don't need a cult member in the presidency.
Cult member? I'd love to see that proof, if you don't mind.

Would love to see a McCain - Romney ticket, tho.

[O. G. ganja smoker]

later homeboy u were to radical in your religious views anyways dont let the door hitcha in the ass oln the way out MITTWIT HAHAHAHA THATS A GOOD ONE!!!:D:cool::jointsmile:

[rebgirl420]

Oh well. At this point I'm not really into any of them (besides Ron Paul but unfortunately he's very last in all the voting results, besides Nevada and such). I never really liked Romney. Just because he's a major flip flopper (on important issues like womens rights and abortion for example). But McCain is really no better. It's a shame that all of the elections I was alive to watch and understand the candidates are picked by the "Okay, who do you hate less?" idea.

But I refuse to vote for Hillary or Obama. So McCain it is.

[angry nomad]

Under Massachusetts "universal" health care, you are forced to buy health insurance if your employer does not provide it. If you do not buy it, then the state fines you.

He also told a guy in a wheelchair dependent on weed as the only medicine that he should use Marinol even though it makes him throw up, and he is against any and all marijuana use.

Fuck Mitt Romney.

[angry nomad]

Good ridance! I like that guy least of all the candidates. His speeches sound oh-so inspiring; he has some great speech writers after all. But every time I've heard him answer a question he wasn't already prepared for, the man let off as the biggest phony I'd ever seen. Don't go off his inspiring well-written public talks, listen to him in the debates, or when a crowd-goer asks a pop-up question. He gives answers that don't mean anything, never says anything that might risk losing a vote. A slick salesman is all he is, and like a good salesman had lots of the voters fooled.

(emphasis added)

Probably because he didn't have his prompter telling him what to say in his earpiece.

[rebgirl420]

Under Massachusetts "universal" health care, you are forced to buy health insurance if your employer does not provide it. If you do not buy it, then the state fines you.

He also told a guy in a wheelchair dependent on weed as the only medicine that he should use Marinol even though it makes him throw up, and he is against any and all marijuana use.

Fuck Mitt Romney.

See, and the reasons to hate him only grow longer and longer by the day. Thank god he's gone.

[StickyfingahZ]

It's always funny how these guys deny they are going to drop out, insist they are in it to the end, and then BOOM, they're out! Their supporters are left going WTF? Weren't we in to the end?


Like Giuliani,That guy was given the jive about this is his strategy,next thing you know he drops it,like it's hot and hurries over to McCain.If Mccain becomes president I dont see much change in the future....well,nothing drastic.Like as if Obama,Paul or clinton won.

[dragonrider]

Like Giuliani,That guy was given the jive about this is his strategy,next thing you know he drops it,like it's hot and hurries over to McCain.If Mccain becomes president I dont see much change in the future....well,nothing drastic.Like as if Obama,Paul or clinton won.

Giuliani was the funniest! That did crack me up! "It's all going according to plan. It's all part of my strategy. I've lulled them into a false sense of security. These early states don't matter because of my invincible fortress." BAM! Defeated! Out! All within one day.

[Zimzum]

Cult member? I'd love to see that proof, if you don't mind.

Would love to see a McCain - Romney ticket, tho.

He refers to him being a Mormon.


Under Massachusetts "universal" health care, you are forced to buy health insurance if your employer does not provide it. If you do not buy it, then the state fines you.

Fuck Mitt Romney.

This is costing the state alot more money then was originally planed. Our state has some F'ed up insurance laws and Romney had to go and touch Health Insurance. Instead the man should have removed all the state regulations on auto insurance which make us one of the most expensive states in that field and many carriers wont even cover us here.

[McLeodGanja]

Under Massachusetts "universal" health care, you are forced to buy health insurance if your employer does not provide it. If you do not buy it, then the state fines you.

He also told a guy in a wheelchair dependent on weed as the only medicine that he should use Marinol even though it makes him throw up, and he is against any and all marijuana use.

Fuck Mitt Romney.

That is fucking abhorent, but I suppose to be expected from assholes like these. The man is a phoney as well, I could tell instantly from his standing down speech.

[8182KSKUSH]

Anyone watching McCain live on telly now? Another boring old grey haired twat in a suit, but I suppose at least he can string a sentence together.

He's anything but boring, I will support him as the republican nom, but he was not my first choice. He is however anything but boring and has had the kind of life exp that no one else could concieve of.:jointsmile:

[dragonrider]

Does it seem strange that the number 2 would drop out before the number 3? What kind of race is that?

Maybe he just regretted the last 18 million he donated to his own campaign --- business sense finally kicked in and he realized that he was just throwing good money after bad. I would have liked to see him SPEND IT ALL!

[StickyfingahZ]

Mccain is boring,he better not kill over and die of old age half way through his term......Im just worried about putting my hope in someone who looks and sounds like their about to expire.

[8182KSKUSH]

That is fucking abhorent, but I suppose to be expected from assholes like these. The man is a phoney as well, I could tell instantly from his standing down speech.

I don't think he is phoney, phoney would be to let people think that you can somehow magicly legalize weed if your elected just to get votes of potheads on text messaging polls that don't mean dick!! At least he stated his position on pot and didn't lie to you about it like some other half assed crap canidate that seems to have support among people around here.
:stupid:

[8182KSKUSH]

Mccain is boring,he better not kill over and die of old age half way through his term......Im just worried about putting my hope in someone who looks and sounds like their about to expire.

The alternatives compell me to take my chances! After all, he aint dead yet!:thumbsup:

[StickyfingahZ]

The alternatives compell me to take my chances! After all, he aint dead yet!:thumbsup:

LOL,true dat!

[epxroot]

phoney would be to let people think that you can somehow magicly legalize weed if your elected just to get votes of potheads on text messaging polls that don't mean dick!! At least he stated his position on pot and didn't lie to you about it like some other half assed crap canidate that seems to have support among people around here.
:stupid:

This is not true at all..:wtf:

[Zimzum]

Anyone catch The Daily Show last night?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXprBVS02vE

:thumbsup:

[yokinazu]

mitt was a hater. in his speach he blamed all on our problems on liberals. i will agree that many liberals do take things way to far but the same can be said of many conservitves.

he then said that the greatest theat to america came from within by us not beleiving in god, and basicaly allowing others to live according to their on morals and not his. that would be us gay loving, godless heathens i suppose.

the he says the greatest threat to america was jihadist extremists (i thought it was from within but i guess i was wrong).

it just semed to me that his "traditional" amrican values were anything but traditional. i always thought that the reason people wanted to come to america was to live their lives in a free state that didnt hold your values and morals against you.