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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Mitt Romney’s a class act. Recognizing that his chances of securing the nomination are thin, he’s suspended his campaign.
The nomination’s now McCain’s, for certain. The question now is who he’ll pick as his running mate. My choice would be former Florida Governor Jeb Bush. The current governor of South Carolina, Mark Sanford, would be a good choice for conservative support, too. But not Mike Huckabee. Don’t do that deal.
Here’s what Romney had to say to the Conservative Political Action Conference:
•”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.”
•” 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.”
•”I will continue to stand for conservative principles; I will fight alongside you for all the things we believe in. And one of those things is that we cannot allow the next President of the United States to retreat in the face evil extremism.”
Comments
By Carl
February 7, 2008 2:28 PM | Link to this
Have to wonder about a guy who proudly runs as a Moron. We’ve had a Moron in the White House for eight years now and the results of his ‘leadership’ have been dreadful. Beside, if he was gonna run this place the way he did his campaign, we all won today - not that he ever did anything as stupid as trading Sammy Sosa.
By Joe Bland
February 7, 2008 2:32 PM | Link to this
Wooten, Jeb Bush would be a great choice, but would kill the ticket, because his big brother has poisoned the well. If only we had had Jeb as president the past eight years instead of GW …
By getalife
February 7, 2008 2:33 PM | Link to this
Total bs, he cut and run because he looked at the delegate count and could not win.
By Brock
February 7, 2008 2:39 PM | Link to this
As a Democrat, I’m disappointed that the GOP will put up its best candidate in the fall. As an American, though, I’m pleased. It will be Huckabee as VP; take that to the bank.
By Brock
February 7, 2008 2:40 PM | Link to this
As a Democrat, I’m disappointed that the GOP will put up its best candidate in the fall. As an American, though, I’m pleased. It will be Huckabee as VP; take that to the bank.
By Ron
February 7, 2008 2:42 PM | Link to this
Poor Mitt—He quit.
By JP
February 7, 2008 2:45 PM | Link to this
Jeb? You mean another radioactive Bush?
By Copyleft
February 7, 2008 2:47 PM | Link to this
So now admitting defeat is a “class act,” Wooten? Interesting.
Maybe there’s hope for getting out of Iraq after all… as long as the Republicans can convince themselves that acknowledging the obvious is another “class act.”
By Ryan
February 7, 2008 2:49 PM | Link to this
Jeb Bush as VP? Yeah Wooten, just what we want to see: another Bonehead Bush with “president” in his title, vice or otherwise!
By Camus
February 7, 2008 3:08 PM | Link to this
Unlike some of the other libs around the blogosphere, I take no joy in Mutt Romney leaving the field. I was hoping that he would continue to fuel the internecine war that the GOP has been enjoying (okay, that I have been enjoying). I also enjoyed seeing him pi$$ his money away like a drunken sailor.
But his leaving creates a huge opportunity moment, one that could make or break McCain for the general election. With Mittens gone, there is really no threat from McCain’s right flank. He could very easily take the stage at CPAC later today and tell the wingnuts to go pound sand, tell ‘em take it or leave it because this is what you got as an alternative to the Dems. Show some real independence from the extremist wing of the GOP.
This would be a real maverick move, and one that would really take some wind out of the Dem sails for the fall. Hillary in particular would have much of the centrist raison d’etre torn from under her feet.
But, cynic that I am (and of a more advanced grade than Kindergarten, Glenn!!), I fully expect St John to suck up to the fundies and wingnuts at CPAC and beg to be forgiven his ‘sins’. Because I think the man is full of cr@p and has no real principles to stand on, and he will pander just as surely as the sun rises in the east.
As a guy hoping for a Dem to win in November (either is fine with me), I hope McCain grovels like noone has ever grovelled before. I think the odds are with me.
By Dusty
February 7, 2008 3:09 PM | Link to this
Well, hooray for a great American not afraid to act like a PATRIOT. Yes, indeed, ROMNNEY has spoken the way I like to hear Americans speak. I did not vote for him but he has shown us how to leave graciously and gracefully, with the welfare of the country in mind. Let’s see Democrats show some class.
Jim Wooten has made great suggestions for VP. Jeb Bush would be a fine choice. According to Joe Bland,His brother has poisoned the well! No way, Jose. George W. Bush is poison for cut-n-runners, anti-war wizards, socialistic leaners, and other Democrats who try to undermine any Republican.
So, we got a good man running and a good man leaving. Thank goodness Republicans know how to pick ‘em.
By kris in alpharetta
February 7, 2008 3:10 PM | Link to this
I’m a Democrat and I believe no one really wants to see another Bush in office, aside from illegal immigrants, who have enjoyed essentially wide open borders since both brothers have been in office. And Huckabee as VP is sure to sink any ship. He comes with extreme views and that thing with the rapist-turned-killer doesn’t inspire confidence in his judgement.
By TAFKAH
February 7, 2008 3:10 PM | Link to this
Whoa…Wooten IS working through the afternoon. Boy, is my face red….
By TAFKAH
February 7, 2008 3:19 PM | Link to this
I thought it was particularly “classy” the way Mitt pointedly did not offer his endorsement to McCain. Almost as good as his little girl whining about being spanked in West Virginia on Tuesday. Sore LOSER.
Look for him to sneak in with fake nose/glasses to lead the booing against McCain later today.
By chuck
February 7, 2008 3:21 PM | Link to this
Bill Clinton missed his calling. He should have been President for VICE.
By Captain Freedom
February 7, 2008 3:25 PM | Link to this
THE Captain stands with Dusty on the question of Jeb Bush as veep. She is correct that on 74% of the American people who mistakenly believe GW Bush to be a complete and miserable failure would find the idea of a Bush on the ‘08 ballot a bad idea. For the rest of us Real Americans who know how well things are going with the economy and the War on Brownskinned Terror, the prospect of Four More Years of Bush is heartening to the extreme.
Huckabee/Bush (jeb)’08. It is the Right Thing to do.
By Joe Bland
February 7, 2008 3:25 PM | Link to this
Patriot might be a bit strong. Sounds revolutionary, and this is a race for a party nomination, to a call to war against Hitler. I’ll give him admirable and selfless. Unless he’s insincere.
By Joe Bland
February 7, 2008 3:25 PM | Link to this
Patriot might be a bit strong. Sounds revolutionary, and this is a race for a party nomination, not a call to war against Hitler. I’ll give him admirable and selfless. Unless he’s insincere.
By Elizabeth
February 7, 2008 3:30 PM | Link to this
Class act? This guy completely reinvents himself seemingly overnight from a liberal to a conservative and that’s classy? Since when is insincerity classy? When is I’ll-try-to-buy-the-nomination-with-my-own-personal-fortune classy?
By GA Tech insider
February 7, 2008 3:30 PM | Link to this
Is Dusty Jim’s femanine side?
By Tom
February 7, 2008 3:32 PM | Link to this
Come on, Joe Bland—insincere? Mitt Romney? How can you even think that about the man who “saw” his father “march” “with” Martin Luther King? Who had “desire” to “be” in Vietnam rather than, well, whatever it was he was doing instead? Who has been a gun-loving hunter all his life, at least the few photo-op hours of his long life he actually spent in the presence of a hunting gun? How can this PATRIOT, in the moving words of our own beloved Dustrag, be heard as insincere? Shame on you, Joe Bland!
By Joe Bland
February 7, 2008 3:33 PM | Link to this
Dusty, I am a Republican, and a practical man. You must understand that while we partisans give our President a 70 percent approval rating, his overall approval rating is 31 percent. Cheerleading is an admirable avocation of yours, but it won’t translate into votes from independents and Democrats.
That’s just the facts, Jose.
By MELO
February 7, 2008 3:34 PM | Link to this
Jeb Bush would be a great choice, but would kill the ticket, because his big brother has poisoned the well ur a classy conservative! Mormon successful busnessman? whsts the return on his investment here big o%
By Sri
February 7, 2008 3:35 PM | Link to this
Jim,
With all due respect, there is nothing classy about Gov Romney. This is a man who is a bigger flip-flopper than Hillary Clinton or John Kerry. What is classy about a man who traveresed from extreme left to extreme right positions, just because it was politically expedient?!
After this CPAC meeting, he has emerged as the darling of all the elitist conservatives — where we they till McCain started emerging as the favorite? Were they hatching eggs? And now, just because Rush Limbaugh started raising opposition to McCain, all these folks found Gov Rimney to be their new Reagan?!!
As an Art Laffer/Larry Kudlow GOP supporter, why can’t we start thinking for ourselves? Gov Romney was strident, loud, boorish and generally disrespectful to Sen McCain during the debates. What is classy about him, Jim? I am NOT a McCain fan but Gov Romney is not a class act, with all due respect to you.
By Joe Bland
February 7, 2008 3:39 PM | Link to this
Melo: Huh? Sorry, I couldn’t translate that last.
By Shar
February 7, 2008 3:43 PM | Link to this
It’s not classy to smear Democrats, be they nominees or the people who support them, with baseless and false accusations of “surrender to terror.” Most voters in the United States want our military out of an adventure nearly all of us agree should never have been started, and Romney denigrates those in thoughtful opposition to his views as patriotic camouflage for his defeat. No class there.
And Jeb Bush? Mr. Terry Schiavo? Brother to the biggest failure in office in American history? Mr. Wooten, you can only suggest that as a way to submarine Senator McCain’s candidacy. Putting that guy on the ticket would guarantee a Democrat in the White House in 2009.
By Dusty
February 7, 2008 3:47 PM | Link to this
Joe Bland,3:33
You fool yourself. Principles? I have doubts about yours but I have mine. Because I saw the goals of the President and considered them worthwhile, I supported him. That is not cheerleading. That is only giving him credit for that which is due.
I don’t care about polls or commentators. I support the one I have observed trying for the right principles. Democrats have tried to undermine the President, the war (after approving a resolution for war), failed in Congress, tried to raise taxes and offered inexperienced and stigmatized candidates. AND YOU HAVE FALLEN FOR ALL OF IT.
Your’re slow, Joe. Try to catch up.
By Shar
February 7, 2008 3:47 PM | Link to this
It’s not classy to smear Democrats, be they nominees or the people who support them, with baseless and false accusations of “surrender to terror.” Most voters in the United States want our military out of an adventure nearly all of us agree should never have been started, and Romney denigrates those in thoughtful opposition to his views as patriotic camouflage for his defeat. No class there.
And Jeb Bush? Mr. Terry Schiavo? Brother to the biggest failure in office in American history? Mr. Wooten, you can only suggest that as a way to submarine Senator McCain’s candidacy. Putting that guy on the ticket would guarantee a Democrat in the White House in 2009.
By You Must Be Kidding
February 7, 2008 3:47 PM | Link to this
Sorry, Jim, but I think America has had enough Bushes for all eternity. Jeb ought to know by now—that thanks to his brother, his last name is a liability, not an asset.
By Dusty
February 7, 2008 3:51 PM | Link to this
GaTech Insider,3:30
Are you the GaTech mascot?
By DD
February 7, 2008 3:51 PM | Link to this
Class act? Romney was mudslinger 1A. Also, picking Jeb for VP would almost giftwrap Florida for Hillary or Obama.
By DD
February 7, 2008 3:54 PM | Link to this
Class act? Romney was mudslinger 1A. Also, picking Jeb for VP would almost giftwrap Florida for Hillary or Obama.
By Joe Bland
February 7, 2008 3:56 PM | Link to this
Because you are a fence post, I will ignore you from now on Dusty. Others in our party understand that the name Bush is a liability for this election. I guarantee you Jeb Bush knows it. Others in our party also know that unless we want to forfeit a chance for victory this year, or see another 2000 finish, the Republican ticket will have to draw some independents and conservative Democrats. Jeb Bush on the ticket would make that harder. As a practical matter the name Bush is political points this year. By 2012, who knows?
George P. Bush in 2016!
By ohwell
February 7, 2008 3:58 PM | Link to this
Camus, As a democrat, you have to be as familiar with groveling as the republicans. I always enjoy hearing one party acolyte go after the other party with no vision to see themselves in the mirror. Hillary and other dems have pandered to the far left for quite some time. It’s no mystery that candidates do it, but it is a mystery that supporters like you can only see to the other side. You’d think that kind of vision would be attractive. It’s not.
By TW
February 7, 2008 4:04 PM | Link to this
The rate at which the Romney vote lines up behind McCain will be proportional to the substance of the movement…shouldn’t take long.
By getalife
February 7, 2008 4:04 PM | Link to this
jim is easily punked by bs.
He could not win, so he cut and ran.
What a load of no class crap.
By Lily Toad
February 7, 2008 4:06 PM | Link to this
HUCKABEE FOR VP. That’ll insure a Dem. victory. HA HA, the earth is only 6000 years old!!
By Glenn
February 7, 2008 4:08 PM | Link to this
Screw McCain. Get real. Draft a conservative. NOW.
By Dusty
February 7, 2008 4:08 PM | Link to this
Shar @3:47
You always place your liberal leanings in such a delicate way. But..
The war in Afghinstan was not an adventure.
The War in Iraq is not an adventure.
Contrary to your belief, Americans support the war and the military. The aim of all wars is to win and celebrate. We are well on the way to reaching our goal.
Being patriotic is not a camouflage for most Americans. It is the way they feel, just like Romney. Have you forgotten?
You think Americans (liberals) don’t forget Jeb Bush as governor and that would be a liability. What about us remembering the disgrace of Clinton(D) and the blundering of Carter(D) when Presidential voting time comes? There’s TWO walking Democratic liabilities. We don’t need more.
By Camus
February 7, 2008 4:09 PM | Link to this
Actually, ohwell, I have found Hillary’s calculated angling for support as troubling for several years now. However, my perception is that she has grovelled to the so-called centrist elements of the elctorate (though such moves as her alliance with Lieberman on the video game violence silliness) and her pals in the DLC, who are about as liberal as Nixon in ‘72. That she has run to the left at all is because of the primary campaigns of Obama and, more directly, Edwards.
Yes, of course the pandering goes on on both sides. How very banal of you to notice. My post has to do with a specific moment in time and a specific opportunity for McCain to live up to his fictional image as a straight talking maverick.
By Lily Toad
February 7, 2008 4:09 PM | Link to this
HUCKABEE FOR VP. That’ll insure a Dem. victory. HA HA, the earth is only 6000 years old!!
By Dusty
February 7, 2008 4:12 PM | Link to this
Joe Bland,3:56
I didn’t ask for your comments. You decide by polls and votes. I’ll decide on whom I think will make the best president of the USA.
By Lynn
February 7, 2008 4:13 PM | Link to this
Why don’t you get over the evangelical issue…. of course Huckabee is a Christian - that’s definitely a plus. However, there is the BIG issue of his support for the proposed “Fair Tax” that drew of his followers…. including myself. Furthermore, if the northern and western states had the influx of illegal immigrants that are rampart in Georgia, not only using our tax dollars but also contributing to our drug issues and gang violence, they would think differently about McCain’s support of amnesty!
By Georgia 74
February 7, 2008 4:13 PM | Link to this
Yeah, romney’s got a lot of class, to bad its all low.
By ohwell
February 7, 2008 4:14 PM | Link to this
I’m sorry. I didn’t realize that you were on the far left. No wonder far right pandering sticks in your craw. I don’t understand either the far left or right, so feel free to go back to bashing each others heads in. It’s still not attractive, but at least you’ve explained it.
By TAFKAH
February 7, 2008 4:20 PM | Link to this
Joe Bland has insulted every fence post in this country with his uncalled for comparison to the dumb-as-a-dild0 Dusty.
By Lily Toad
February 7, 2008 4:25 PM | Link to this
I can’t get over the Evangelical side of Huckabee because it scares me more than terrorism.
By Glenn
February 7, 2008 4:25 PM | Link to this
Hey yeah. Yeah!
Huckabee says he’s a Christian. Lynn says “of course [he] is a Christian”!
He must be a Christian!
DUH!
By Lily Toad
February 7, 2008 4:28 PM | Link to this
I can’t get over the Evangelical side of Huckabee because it scares me more than terrorism.
By getalife
February 7, 2008 4:29 PM | Link to this
Geez, crusty is spewing patriotism again. Sigh.
Give it a rest, we know you are not a patriot and never supported Clinton’s military victory.
Stop embarrasing yourself, we know you are a fraud.
By the arrow
February 7, 2008 4:31 PM | Link to this
With Romney dropping out we now have the glorious choices of 2 demo/socialists and one plain vanilla liberal in John McCain. As a conservative, I cannot cast a vote for any of these under any circumstances. From day one of this campaign season it has been evident that we were faced with the weakest collection of president wanna-bes in the history of our republic. I fear our country will pay a dear price when we elect any of these misfits. Hillary Clinton has no experience in actually managing any type of endeavor, and seeks to cite her worthless husband’s experience as her own. She has pledged to lead this country down a socialist path. Barack Obama is a nothing and a nobody….when a group of his supporters were pressed to name one thing he had ever accomplished, none could think of any. One female supporter did say, however, he should be prez because he is a “great oratater”…for you other Obama supporters out there I think she meant orater, but the comment probably pretty well sums up the thought process of the typical Obama supporter. In John McCain, we have a person who has acted as a liberal throughout his recent career, but now lies and tells us he is really a conservative. He is well known for his violent temper, and vindictiveness…a dangerous man to have his finger on the nuke trigger. I for one will ignore the coming election (except to vote against Saxby C. for his endorsement of the lib McCain), guard my assets carefully for the ensuing 4 years and pray we can survive as a country. Perhaps we can, since we got through the term of that fool, Jimmy Carter.
By Dusty
February 7, 2008 4:32 PM | Link to this
TAFKAH @4:20,
You are as cute as a button. Why don’t you use your real ID or your jail #? This phony ID is clumsy.
By Dusty
February 7, 2008 4:33 PM | Link to this
getalife @4:29
What Clinton victory? The one over Lewinsky?
By Ben T
February 7, 2008 4:35 PM | Link to this
Romney is indeed all class. I had the opportunity to hear him speak Monday at Tech. His platform has always been what pulls Republicans together and maintains our solid conservative principles. His presence is truly Reaganesque. He talks about what all Americans hold dear and about true change in Washington.
We lost our way as a party by over spending and drawing too closely to Democrats in Washington. Our only way back is to put people in office who can govern by the same principles Reagan held dear.
That’s why this election looks a lot like the ‘76 run-up. The ‘76 race exhibited how Reagan lost the battle and ultimately won the war. That race endured him in the hearts of most Republicans as the guy they should’ve nominated and later in ‘80 he crushed the Carter disaster in a landslide!
Romney will be back not because of this classy exit but because of his character and the need for outside conservative change in Washington.
By Shar
February 7, 2008 4:35 PM | Link to this
Dusty @ 4:08 - “The aim of all wars is to win and celebrate”? And here I thought we were protecting American security. Instead, we’re tailgating with the Taliban!
Mr. Romney, an Alpha guy, was humiliated at not winning the nomination. In order to mask his defeat with “honor”, he claimed that his withdrawal was for patriotic reasons, and that Democrats and those who support them “surrender to terror”. It’s a smear, unfounded and untrue, and contrary to Mr. Wooten’s opinion it shows no class at all.
Jeb Bush presided over the bitterly contested 2000 election in Florida and was national Busybody in Chief in the Schiavo mess. His family relations are poisonous to all but the right wing and his best-known policies are polarizing and ludicrous. Mr. Wooten has made his distaste for Senator McCain clear; the only possible reason for supporting a Jeb Bush vice presidential pick would be to see McCain lose the general election. And why do you bring up Presidents Carter and Clinton? As you are so fond of noting in re: GW Bush, they’re not running.
Glenn @ 4:08 - The GOP is, indeed, getting real. The majority of the electorate is disgusted at the Rovian tactic of relying on extreme partisans for political cover and forcing an agenda on everyone else. A farther right conservative won’t win a general election. Too bad the Democrats are not similarly getting real and jettisoning their front-runner with her 52% negative rating. Talk about electability fairy tales.
By Lily Toad
February 7, 2008 4:38 PM | Link to this
Arrow, the correct word is orator.
By Eagle Man
February 7, 2008 4:40 PM | Link to this
Dusty slept through our glorious and successful campaign to end genocide in Bosnia. Maybe she didn’t support those troops. Yeah, probably not, since their commander in chief was Bill Clinton.
By Lily Toad
February 7, 2008 4:41 PM | Link to this
Arrow, the correct word is orator.
By Tim
February 7, 2008 4:56 PM | Link to this
Dusty and Arrow:
Why are you trashing Jimmy Carter? All he did was Stop the American FreeFall that Vietnam and Watergate ( Both under a Repubilcan Admin). What we needed in 1976 was someone to come in and make Fix the mess that was created by Nixon and bungled by Ford!!!
By Glenn
February 7, 2008 4:58 PM | Link to this
Luckoduh,
You liked that pantload from McCain? Good Gawd!
He started by claiming that he has “maintained the record of a conservative” [Lie #1], insisting still that he had been a footsoldier for Reagan [L2]. He then introduced a feat of nomenclature, “mainstream conservative”, saying, “My record, taken as a whole, is the record of a mainstream conservative.” He also beseeched those bent on voting against him to vote against him “based on my record”. [Will do, Senator, will do.]
Then he listed two foundational principles of American political conservatism, calling these pinched two summative of what conservatism means today [L3]. He urged that the borders be secured first before we proceed to secure Jeffersonian happiness for criminal aliens, drawing catcalls of “TOO LATE!” from the audience.
He spent the rest of the speech boasting rather convincingly of how he would trounce the Democrats, and urging his listeners rather too conspicuously to focus, not on his vaunted “record”, but instead on how he has positioned himself in this immediately present campaign. [L4]
Lets dump the chump and draft an honest Republican right now, in the next two weeks. Come on. We’ve got work to do.
By Lily Toad
February 7, 2008 4:59 PM | Link to this
Sorry for the multiple posts. My server is slow, so I close the page, guess that’s what’s happening.
By Dusty
February 7, 2008 4:59 PM | Link to this
EagleMan @4:40
I think you the one who slept through the NATO war in Bosnia. After several years of war in Bosnia, USA brokered a peace agreement and sent one third of sixty thousand NATO troops to enforce the peace agreement.
I supported our efforts there but this was an NATO engagement, not our war and nothing to do with the protection of America.
By Joe Bland
February 7, 2008 4:59 PM | Link to this
Time to get in my white Ford and drive home to my 3 BR, 3 bath rancher in the suburbs.
Well, you know, in case you were wondering about the name.
By deegee
February 7, 2008 5:02 PM | Link to this
Oh, sure. John McCain really wants photo ops with Jeb and his wife, Columba Garnica-Gallo de Bush. That’s going to happen.
By Eagle Man
February 7, 2008 5:03 PM | Link to this
Which nation is the leader of NATO, unless you’re dumb, you know it is the U.S. This military victory would not have happened without Bill Clinton. It belongs to him. Stupid.
By Glenn
February 7, 2008 5:03 PM | Link to this
Tim @ 4:56,
May I suggest, with all due respect, that you go back to 11th Grade American History class and start over?
By Dusty
February 7, 2008 5:04 PM | Link to this
Tim @4:56
Reagan came in and cleaned up the mess left by Jimmy Carter.
Carter is a man of good character. He was ineffectual as a president.
By ckt
February 7, 2008 5:08 PM | Link to this
Yes Jimmy.. Class act… because nothing says “class act” like accusing those whom disagree with you of wanting terrorists to attack America. Classy.
Romney is, and always will be, a flip-flopper of the first degree, a political hack, a man willing to forfeit integrity for votes, and a joke.
Thank God he’s gone. Now, only a few more Republicans can drop out and we’ll just declare a Democrat the victor. Progress, here we come.
By Thinking Correctly
February 7, 2008 5:09 PM | Link to this
Class act? Please! He didn’t want to blow any more of his money. By the way, the best thing about this whole campaign is Rush Limbaugh making a complete a* of himself. The guy is completely out of touch with reality — and eventually even his audience will realize it.
By Tom
February 7, 2008 5:14 PM | Link to this
Given that Willard’s rationale for why none of his five seemingly-able-bodied sons (Tagg, Biff, Buster, Goofus and Gallant—I think those are their names) has ever served in the military [they were serving, said the Plastic Man, by helping him get elected President] has now vanished, I guess we’ll see the Brothers Romney running to the recruiting office first thing in the morning, don’t you think?
By BT
February 7, 2008 5:18 PM | Link to this
CKT, who do you support? The only hack I see is the one who shows his public school education, dreaming of the two socialists that now must fight it out. By the way, Hillary is out of money.
By Tim
February 7, 2008 5:18 PM | Link to this
Glen and Dusty, Nixon cut this Country to the core! And was a Republican!!! He commited real crimes while in office and left this nation to question everything about our ability to make choices regarding our leaders. We needed someone to STOP THE BLEEDING.
By Ben
February 7, 2008 5:27 PM | Link to this
Tim, Carter did nothing but grow the government monster and planted the seeds in radical Islam that we are weak nation who likes to handle violence with diplomacy. How did that how Iranian thing work out anyway? I believe our people were released the day Reagan took office.
It was Reagan who then brought us our greatest period of peace and prosperity after inheriting Carter’s recession. Reagan ultimately brought the “healing” you spoke of.
By Dusty
February 7, 2008 5:28 PM | Link to this
Poor Shar,4:35
We are fighting for American security. We defeated the Taliban and they try to resurrect. But that is difficult for them as the Afghans are fighting them and we help.
You cannot see why we are more secure with a free Iraq than one with a dictator thought to have wmds. He also had the same religion and fanaticism as terrorists.
Bush saw it and acted. You think we paid too high a price to secure freedom for us and for them. That may be. But I prefer a free and arising Iraq to the one under Saddam.
As to Jeb Bush, he simply brings to liberal minds the thought that Gore lost in Florida. That has been proven over & over to be quite legal and accurate. Your liberal hate for Bush has even extended to his brother. That’s sad.
And you can tell Deegee, that having a Hispanic member in your family is not a disgrace. I have a most enjoyable one in mine.
Good night to all.
By Glenn
February 7, 2008 5:31 PM | Link to this
Tim,
You’re half right in your summation of Nixon’s legacy, and one hundred percent wrong on Ford and Carter.
Give it up and hit the books.
By Mid-South Philosopher
February 7, 2008 5:33 PM | Link to this
D*mn,
I do a little work and Romney goes and bows out! I really didn’t expect him to make that move, but, no doubt about it, he understands math.
Given the choice between him and Jeb Bush for V.P., I believe I would have to go with the corporatist. I think the nation has spent about as much time in the “Bushes” as we need to! (Although, I think Jeb would have been a much better President than Georgie).
I don’t like the Republicans, but (despite what Dusty would expect) I like the Democrats even less.
Here’s………Johnny!
By AmVet
February 7, 2008 5:36 PM | Link to this
Romney was another typical new-age Republican - a tawdry smear merchant (albeit a wealthy one, though apparently 30 - 50 million dollars less rich now!), and it cost him what tiny chance he ever had. That and America is finally disgusted with chickenhawks.
He and Rudy were merely twin sons of different RINO mothers. And that ain’t gonna git er done with the “faithful”!
Yet Pretty boy Sean and the other fools and oracles of the lunatic fringe are already tauting him for 2012. With that pig-headed mentality, I many never see another Republican President in my lifetime!
Watching these so-called conservatives and their fans self destruct is going to make for months of enjoyable entertainment.
And that McCain is going to facilitate it is beyond my wildest dreams.
Way to go America!
Payback’s a b!tch, ain’t it?
By AmVet
February 7, 2008 5:44 PM | Link to this
Tauting him?
make that touting…
By vandstra
February 7, 2008 5:45 PM | Link to this
When Wooten said Jeb Bush I threw up in my mouth a little. Actually, I might encourage it because it would all but guarantee a democratic victory. May this nation never again know another Bush in the White House.
By saywhat?
February 7, 2008 5:45 PM | Link to this
Arrow, Criticizing Obama supporters for misspeaking is rich, especially coming from a bush supporter. I can’t stop laughing. Honestly. You wonder what the Obama supporter had on their mind while saying “oratater”, while the rest of us thinking people have for 7 years been wondering WTF “nucular” is, or “raising the pie higher”, or what kind of idiot asks “is our children learning?”. Geez, Georgia conservatives are an ignorant, insightless, humorless bunch of morons, in a ROFLMAO at them, but still really sad, kind of way.If you want to know what the US would be like run by the brain dead, look back over the last disastrous 7 years. New idea!!! Mary Schiavo for VP! She still has more brain function than any of the conservatives on this site.
By Glenn
February 7, 2008 5:50 PM | Link to this
AmVet,
You mean to tell me that there isn’t ONE Democratic elected official who’s serious about restructuring the delivery of services provided by government—-you know, doing more with less, instead of doing something with MORE? How pathetic.
And what in hell is a “New Age Republican”? Are you telling us that the GOP is now shot through with neo-Pagans?
By jbmlaw
February 7, 2008 5:56 PM | Link to this
Good afternoon all. (1) Mitt’s withdrawal was classy, and he has promised to support the Republican nominee. While we all know that will be Sen. McCain, Romney’s statement was appropriate - he should not annoint the nominee, as the race is still technically contested. (2) VP will be Haley Barbour. Erases the Katrina issue, grooms a young brilliant Republican for the future, solidifies the South, appeases conservatives. (3) I respectfully disagree with my friend Glenn - McCain’s speech hit most of the right notes, did a pretty good job of patching over the differences. Still work to do, but it is now in range.
By Oh yeah
February 7, 2008 5:58 PM | Link to this
Another day on Wooten’s blog, and the liberal hate nazis continue to prove their true intolerance and hatred for those who do not share their sick, warped, twisted, and most definitely personal success inhibiting ideology (why work when the government teet is there to take from those who DO work?). Keep up the hate and intolerance of your fellow Americans, moonbat libs. You’ll pay for it later. That’s guaranteed.
By Tim
February 7, 2008 6:00 PM | Link to this
Glen, The government grew under Reagan to a point larger than any time in history to that point. Ronnie was the one that exploded the national debt,and he gave the largest amnisty in the history of this country, Or did you forget ( we know he did). Jimmy Carter was a good man who that spent four years washing the “stain of Nixon ” out of the Oval Office. He was not the end all to be all of Presidents, but to insult him and all he ment after the Nixon/Ford years, does a disservice to the principles that he lives by.
By AmVet
February 7, 2008 6:01 PM | Link to this
A new-age Republican is this shameful and pathetic facsimile of men who once stood for honor. You remember. Country before party. Nation before ideology. America before self and cronies.
And Eisenhower may have been the very last one.
In my lifetime I have had to endure a long list of conservative charlatans, and there is little argument that it has gotten continually worse over time. Until we ended up with this debacle of an administration. But at last, the writing is clearly on the wall now.
And I really don’t blame Reagan, Gingrich or George W. Bush. As masterful puppeteers all, they merely played the naive and expedited this collapse in GOP morality and competence. It is the American voter who elected these men, that I fault.
By boss dawg
February 7, 2008 6:07 PM | Link to this
So, China freezes its a-ss off, and the worthless corrupt UN, that the liberals just love so much, says that freak weather needs to be addressed now. There is no comment about global warming here of course. Just another excuse to attempt to rape America’s success and wealth for their own greedy needs. The UN can shove it right up their bungholes. Kyoto and liberalism? Blow me.
By jbmlaw
February 7, 2008 6:08 PM | Link to this
Dear AmVet @ 6:01, we would all agree that there is no “Reagan” anywhere in sight in the Republican party, and further that a Reagan would not be welcome among the Democrats. As soon the American public realizes that truth, democrats will never again win an election.
By Andrew
February 7, 2008 6:17 PM | Link to this
Suggesting that democrats will surrender to terror is classy? What a crock of s**. I guess those Democrats left the Nazis and Japs run over us too then huh?
By AmVet
February 7, 2008 6:23 PM | Link to this
Counselor, you miss the point entirely.
Reaganism is in this day and age irrelevant. (It actually was then, but only a few of us knew it!)
I have stated very frequently that the Democratic Party does NOT hold the promise of America in it’s hands. It is the GOP that does.
This is still and always will be a liberal country (sex, drugs and rock n roll), notwithstanding Reagan’s protests otherwise nor his inanely short sighted goal of reacting to the excesses of liberalism with his war on drugs and his war on porn and his war on feminism and his war on hippies and his war on (fill in the blank).
Had he let the American people see for themselves the failings of this new society, and deal with it in their own time and way, instead of moronically trying to legislate our morality, the GOP would be much healthier and much more respected today.
The Democratic Party has always had, and likely always will have, a viable place in American politics because they don’t get rapped up in REACTING to the Republicans. They do what they do and some of it is good and some of it isn’t.
Had Reagan actually been able to see the big picture (as he was supposedly noted for) he would have steered the GOP in a much more non-reactionary and non-vulnerable direction.
A direction that would have endured more than a scant 25 years. Now the GOP has imploded because of this prudishness and fake family values rather than stand for something much greater than just hating liberals.
Again, the promise of America lies in the GOP. But not unless and until they get their collective sh!t together…
By OneForTheRoad
February 7, 2008 6:44 PM | Link to this
I suppose when Wooten says “classy” he could just as easily mean “at least he didn’t go into a tirade nationwide and call in the lawyers and the supremes and moan about winning the popular vote but losing the delegate count….”. Is that what you meant by “classy”, Jim?
By deegee
February 7, 2008 8:01 PM | Link to this
That speech gave us an insight into what a truly self-centered, self-important, transparent politician Mitt really is. It’s all about Mitt. If he had stayed in the race the democrats would have won and the country would be attacked and destroyed by terrorists. Mitt couldn’t let that happen so he had to bow out and save the United States of America. What a crock. That belongs up there with the “My 5 sons are serving their country by campaigning for me.” Good riddance to bad rubbish.
By GayGrayGeek
February 7, 2008 9:09 PM | Link to this
jmblaw @ 5:56 - I must salute you, sir, for your VP choice. It’s nothing short of brilliant.
My felicitations.
By OneForTheRoad
February 7, 2008 9:09 PM | Link to this
Dear Jim,
Angelina Jolie is a class act — for future reference.
By getalife
February 7, 2008 9:35 PM | Link to this
Angelina Jolie is a class act — for future reference.
Yes indeed.
Well, since willard’s five sons do not have to help him win, I guess they enlisted today to help us not surrender.
Probably not, just five more chicken hawks with Daddy spewing more wasted lives in Iraq for nothing but not his boys. Typical gop elitist bs.
By ramblinwreck
February 8, 2008 4:50 AM | Link to this
Romney equating voting for a Democratic nominee as “surrender to terror” is an insult to the intelligence of the American people. The politics of hyperbole, partisanship, and fear-mongering hardly qualify him for “a class act.”
By Damn the Man
February 8, 2008 6:37 AM | Link to this
When will Wooten do a column on nanny state liberals ignoring scientific studies like the one from the Netherlands that debunked the myth that smokers cost taxpayers more than nonsmokers. The excuse for overtaxing smokers as a user fee is gone, but liberals and gutless conservatives (I’m looking at you Sonny) will still try and use smokers as an unlimited source of taxation because they are a minority. Kinda like how the Germans got away with having special user fee taxes for jews in the 1930s.
By MocaMarc
February 8, 2008 8:11 AM | Link to this
Do any people who announce themselves as conservatives or demand that our government be run by conservatives truly know the definition of conservative in this context?
By candide
February 8, 2008 8:24 AM | Link to this
Class act? As usual, Romney is ready to say and do anything for his own selfish interest.
By JK
February 8, 2008 8:46 AM | Link to this
Since I don’t vote Republican, I had not given Romney a careful listen. From what I heard in the Repubican debates, he didn’t seem like such a bad guy, you know, for a Republican and chickenhawk… Then I heard this nonsense last night. WHAT A COLOSSAL TOOL!
No surprise that Mr. Wooten thinks he’s a “class act.” Now that he’s not busy campaigning, you can have that beer with the guy, Jim! Oh, wait….
By sherrie
February 10, 2008 9:37 PM | Link to this
I agree with you regarding Mitt Romney. He is a “class act”, a true gentleman and a true patriot! I hope he will run again in 4 years. Huckabee took so many of his votes!
By Marc
February 12, 2008 7:40 AM | Link to this
Jim:
Mitt Romney may be a lot of things, but he is by no means a class act.
By charles corley
February 13, 2008 10:42 AM | Link to this
joseph smith is laughings his a* off. joe was no dummy. he loved women and didn’t like war. he came up with celestial marriage, polygamy and conscientious objector on religious grounds. the baptist could learn something from joe. since moses came down from the mountain with the adultry idea the baptist have been worrying about going to hell and believe it or not, joe’s bunch, known today as the morman church, is still practicing polygamy ( at least 30,000 are ), don’t like war and the baptist are still worried about going to hell. grandpa romney had 5 wives and mitt has 5 boys who are all objectors like their father was. please god tell me how you can justify this article.
By charles corley
February 13, 2008 10:47 AM | Link to this
joseph smith is laughings his a* off. joe was no dummy. he loved women and didn’t like war. he came up with celestial marriage, polygamy and conscientious objector on religious grounds. the baptist could learn something from joe. since moses came down from the mountain with the adultry idea the baptist have been worrying about going to hell and believe it or not, joe’s bunch, known today as the morman church, is still practicing polygamy ( at least 30,000 are ), don’t like war and the baptist are still worried about going to hell. grandpa romney had 5 wives and mitt has 5 boys who are all objectors like their father was. please god tell me how you can justify this article.
By Hamm Sailhardy
February 15, 2008 4:46 PM | Link to this
Hard to believe that anyone would want Mutt Romney as president. He is a real bow-wow. And his prowess as a business executive?
He does know how to make money for himself and his associates. However, he just spent $35 million of his own money and only finished a weak third in his run for The White House.
And he spent all that money, and only said what he thought his audiences wanted to hear. Does anyone know the real Romney?
If so, tell him to find the rock his father crawled under after his bid for the presidency failed because he was “brainwashed.”
Mutt is apparently brain dead.