Mitt Romney is dropping out of the race - or, in campaign parlance, "suspending" his campaign.
His reasons:
''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 (Barack) Obama would win. And in this time of war, I simply cannot let my campaign, be a part of aiding a surrender to terror,'' Romney planned to say in a speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference.''This is not an easy decision for me. I hate to lose. My family, my friends and our supporters ... many of you right here in this room ... have given a great deal to get me where I have a shot at becoming president. If this were only about me, I would go on. But I entered this race because I love America, and because I love America, I feel I must now stand aside, for our party and for our country.''
One of the problems that so many people have had with Mitt Romney during this campaign was that he didn't seem to be Mitt Romney. He seemed to be a man playing the role of Mitt Romney as hard ass conservative. And it was a role he wasn't born to play.
I have friends who know Romney quite well - friends not necessarily predisposed to support his political agenda. To a person, they have deep respect and admiration for the man. Today may be one of the first days of the campaign where Mitt Romney's true character is shining through.
He could have fought through to the convention. He could have had a big, stinking, attention-grabbing fight. He would have lost, but he could have fought.
Today he is setting aside his personal ambitions for the greater good.
Of course there are a few other realities he is confronting - money isn't exactly streaming in, the conservative support isn't enough to win him the nomination, he has his eyes on 2012 and this proves him to be a team player.
But whatever the reason, he is behaving like a leader today, like a man worth respecting. He'll be back and maybe when he runs again he will run as the man he really is... whoever that is.
Now it is down to two - amazing that Huckabee and McCain are the last ones standing. Money can't buy you love and money can't buy the presidency either. Now that is a good story line.
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Donny still doesn't get it. He desperately wants to believe that evil Hollywood pervs are shoveling tons of money at Obama, and that's why he's got such a huge campiagn fund. But, the reality is that it's hundreds and hundreds of thousands of regular people across the country who are donating relatively small amounts. A huge percentage of them have never donated to any candidate before.
But Donny, I'm just sure that Obama impregnated all those welfare moms who are sending their money to him.
Bob M,
Obama encourages their behaviors that get them pregnant and also, perversely, to murder their unwanted pregnancies, by complicity (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/complicity).
I do not have to "desperately believe" what is easily provable. The lascivious licentiousness and th death that it always brings of Hollywood morality, beats out even the stories in the Bible that resemble it. (And of course all in condemnation of it.) Heath Ledger wa not embracing a conservative life. He was living Liberal excesses encouraged by the Liberal milieu in which he dwelled. I know the unshakable reality of that truth.
And to Obama's Leftist hordes, the Bible and its warnings about living a Liberal lifestyle is mythology at best. But certainly not the STD's and deaths that are really happening. The failure of the inner-cities where Obama says he worked to make better, shows his worth. Where is his voice to oppose what's really going on there? Sorry socialism and taxing good families ain't it.
Hollywood is leading the charge for Obama. ALL of those youthful supporters are produced by MTV, HBO, ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox Channel, Vanity Fair, People Magazine, New York Time, LA Times . . . and on and on and on. His supporters think that street-corner prostitute behaviors are not only part of tolerance and diversity, but part of College life.
I think they are part of a death at a young age. Again, facts bear out my position.
Now don't get me wrong, there's a part of the Obama thing that is humorous to watch develope. If he were to get elected, where would all of the "Players" Rappers and Hollywoodites (that number the large percentage of his supporters), go to find their excuse for their ubiquitous multi-partnered promiscuity? (Sorry I had to frame it that way redundancy and hypocrisy means nothing to this new generation.)Obama's family represents the conservative Jesus model. In form anyway. Though his life's work represents the opposite, it will be truly entertaining to see the Black, MTV and Hollywood community champion their eyes closed promiscuity with a Liberal-Progressive in the White House, that appears, to really be committed to his wife of the opposite gender and the children they had after they were married. I'll enjot that. If for nothing else, just for the irony of it all.
Maybe there is a ray of hope, that if, Obama were to open his eyes while viewing the country from the White House, and the Lord would hear the prayers of the widow and orphan crying out from the inner-city suburban and rural streets, that he would reject his life of Progressive Secular Humansim and embrace the Truth worth living.
If he did that, there would be healing in America and children that would know the right from wrong denied them by Liberal and Progressive deception. They would fathers committed to them and their (married-to-the-father) mother. But I am not going to hold my breath for four-seconds let alone four-years hoping a Leftist will see the Light. But I will pray that it happens. I do believe in miracles. And it would take one to get a Liberal-Progressive-Humanist-Democrat to do the right thing.
(But then again Liberals do not believe in miracles either. Read the Humanist Manifesto for proof.)
Luckily I'm not a Liberal.
Donny, I'm a liberal. My parents were liberals, as were my aunts and uncles. I was adopted when I was 6 months old. Viewing my extended family, one thing has been clear; there have been some divorces, some problems, but most first, second, and third generations are still married, some heterosexual, one or two same-sex unions. All of my cousins have good, professional jobs, although several gravitated towards the arts and the social service industries. One female cousin graduated with a law degree, and did the "hippie" thing of going to work with the indigent, helping those folks get legal representation. They drink, some smoke, some (including me) not only curse, but have left all religion as they see humanism a more all-encompasing theory that helps people while not passing unnecessary judgement on them. We all grew up strong, upright, and basically have our heads on straight. You'd say that we don't have the fear of God, perhaps, but we do for our fellow man, and try to not hurt anyone. I have never asked those nearby their sexual mores, and I don't care about the music they listen to, or the movies they see. They work with me, and are the salt of the earth. This was typed fast, so please pardon the misspellings and typos
Well Donny, I'm sure I would be considered a liberal by you, but I believe in miracles. And I think a candidate who can inspire, and bring people together in hope is one of them.
I must say, the ease with which you sling all sorts of judgments and stereotypes around reminds me of Luke 8: 10-14.
>>>"Hollywood is leading the charge for Obama. ALL of those youthful supporters are produced by MTV, HBO, ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox Channel, Vanity Fair, People Magazine, New York Time, LA Times . . . and on and on and on." Donny
Donny, you forgot TBN and "Bubba's BIG Bible Breakfast Broadcast" (featuring the preacher formerly known as John Hagee) in your list of indictments.
Yours, for accuracy in media reviews,
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