Romney to suspend campaign - I can only say one thing - Yeah!!!!!!!

[Mass]

woohoo:woohoo:woohoo:woohoo:woohoo:woohoo:

[MBS]

1. There is justice in this world : ) n/t

[sandnsea]

2. One down

Romney, next Hillary.

You guys must have a masochistic streak or something, to choose the two of them! :)

But if McCain chooses Huckabee, oh good lord, it's horrifying to think of.

[MBS]

3. Embarrassing, isn't it?

Not all of MA is as smart as you'd think, alas.
At the cashier line in a MA grocery store a couple of weeks ago, I chatted with a woman who said, "If the nominees are Romney and Hillary, I'm going to jump." Now she can get at least one foot back on terra firma.. :)

[ginnyinWI]

4. Oh, no, not McCain/Huckabee

I suppose they'd want to do it, because each has something the other lacks. But wow--the worst traits of Conservatism--Social and Warhawk!

Quite a striking contrast to Obama/?? isn't it?

By the way, sandnsea, I loved your post called "I'm 50 years old." Spot on!! There were a lot of interesting and thoughtful comments and I stayed up way too late reading through them last night. This is why I come to DU. :)

[sandnsea]

5. Thank you

Was weird to me that it was so popular because I was really just letting off steam. Then I can spend all day putting together resources and a well thought out argument on some issue or other, and it drops like a rock. That's why I say Democrat's biggest problem is that we think like lawyers and they think like radio personalities. We build cases, they tell stories. I think the Obama campaign may have tapped into that when they tell people to tell their story and not worry so much about the details of policies.

I just have to stick my fingers in my ears and scream "la la la" when I hear the idea of Huckabee as VP, but it does seem to be making the rounds. :scared:

Thanks again.

[MarjorieG]

6. Exactly, he speaks in parables.

Speaking about liberal values in conservative language.

Talk about ideas, my husband had a terrifying epiphany while watching Lieberman with McCain everywhere as the heroic, resident Independent, another VP run?

[sandrakae]

7. I was rooting for shoe polish head. He would be easier to beat then John McCain.

[Inuca]

8. I was rooting for him too

but each time I heard him speak I was finding it more and more difficult to do it, even if my good wishes were strictly because of him being the easier to defeat. He kept reminding me of body snatching terror movies. McCain has his faults (many, some unforgivable), but at least he is human. And on a side note and speaking as a woman, I do not think I ever saw a less attractive good looking man.

[europegirl4jfk]

9. "I do not think I ever saw a less attractive good looking man"

LOL That's a great comment. I always say he is a Ken doll ;-)

[JI7]

13. proof

[Inuca]

14. Unreal! :-) :-) n/t

[Dr Ron]

10. Is it really good?

I was undecided as to whether I preferred Romney or McCain as GOP nominee.

The strongest argument in Romney's favor is that he doesn't really seem to believe in anything, so maybe he would less harm if a Republican manages to get elected. It is rather pathetic when the best thing you can think to say about someone is that they don't believe in anything.

[Mass]

12. Just sweet for me given his years as Governor of the State. The ViceRoi is down.

[Inuca]

15. I used to think the same way

but I ended up seeing "easier to defeat" as his only redeeming quality. If nothing else, he would have believed in that strong moral principle called "re-election". I don't know... maybe he would have done less harm than McCain, but shreds of integrity matter even in the opponent. The problem with McCain is that I am not sure he is 100% sane...

[Major Hogwash]

11. Somebody needs to do a commercial about it.

As much as Romney was loved in Idaho, I thought it was funnier than hell when his state campaign chairman, James Risch, our Lt. Governor, dissed McCain while acknowledging that Romney was suspending his campaign and then added as a backhanded compliment, that he would support McCain.

There was no love lost between McCain's people and Romney's people here for the last several months. Within an hour of Romney's state campaign chairman saying that about McCain, he had to issue a public statement that he is completely, 100%, all the way, behind the GOP's candidate, McCain. You could almost hear all the asskissing going on in his statement.

LoL

Someone should do a commerical ripoff of the FedEx commercial where they are talking about changing from being lemmings to becoming leaders.
Instead, in this ripoff version, have a bunch of Romney supporters cheering for him loudly, when all of a sudden, upon hearing that he suspended his campaign, they all get on their hands and knees and crawl after McCain.

LoL

[karendc]

16. Just getting back from a Huckabee rally

true. I was fascinated. First of all, Huck is a GREAT speaker. And he was able to couch his more frightening views in language that made the whole fixit thing sound EASY and DO-ABLE! He made some great jokes and heartfelt points as well.

But mostly I talked with any staffers I could find. They were all white, of course ( I also spotted one entire family of lookalike kids--maybe 8-9 or them--with I LIKE MIKE buttons, who looked like they were right out of the homeschool movement). The staffers spoke freely after I told them I was the one on HARDBALL who told Chris Matthews Huck would win Iowa. After that, they thanked me, assumed I was a supporter and spilled...

The Romney folks were downright horrible to them apparently, before Super Tuesday. Nasty stuff (Good to know it is not only the HRC camp pulling that shit).

So I am glad that Huck is not out yet, and actually, my own preference for a campaign season I could stomach is an Obama-Huckabee race. I believe that the conversations would be very different were those two the nominees, and might even rise to the level of talking about how best to end a war that is sucking down our economy and our very souls, and friggin' HELP people.

Anyway, Mike is real--limited and narrower than one might wish, but real.

As for me, don't tell anyone, but I am voting O on Tuesday.