2/7/08

Romney: So Many Great Titles To Choose From

How does somebody that ran as 'more liberal than Ted Kennedy' for governor and as 'the conservative Ronald Reagan would endorse' for president bow out after spending about $35 million and getting owned by the poor guy on super Tuesday for the grand 'ole Bubbas nomination?

He suspends his campaign. (WTF?!?)

He quits without actually quitting.

He cuts but doesn't run.

I'm sure there's a bunch more clever quips, hopefully some people find this and post a few of their own.

I have no idea and don't care to research the statistics into how many past presidential candidates were so cowardly to "suspend" their campaign rather than bowing out with some grace and character while congratulating the guy who beat you for running a good campaign. I guess that's just a little too much to ask of Romney. His behavior now reinforces why people's support for him waned.

He looks like he's wearing a mask.

He looks like he's acting.

He's stiff, and robotic.

He looks like he's trying his best to portray a character in a movie or TV special that is running for President of the United States.

His positions were what he thought his audience wanted to hear. Massachusetts had a much different audience, hence his ideas and positions were much different (mandated health care, gay marriage, etc.).

I remember Massachusetts being pretty liberal when I lived there and living up to it's moniker of Taxachusetts. Romney was never speaking out against the status-quo there four years ago or so.

He attacked the other candidates to the point that his supporters defected to the more positive campaigns of Huckabee especially (you gotta weigh the risk of attacking a preacher) and probably turned many people off with the swift-boating of McCain (the forwarded email rumor of McCain having an interracial child out of wedlock with an african american woman (truth is she was adopted from Bangladesh) was offensive to me and his campaign ought to be ashamed for crushing a young woman's sense of self for political gain.

I felt I knew Clinton in a more personal way than Romney (and I don't feel like I know Clinton all that much. I think she's pretty much bought and paid for by various interests).

I felt like I could trust Hillary Clinton more than Romney.(I feel I already know most of the things Clinton will do that I wouldn't like, but with Romney I have no idea what he's going to do, except that it will be the most popular opinion about that issue at the time).

Bottom line is he was just too phony, people saw through him and didn't vote for him.

In the end I'm kind of sad that Romney is quitting instead of spending more of his personal fortune to further stimulate the economy.

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