Hot Air and others are reporting Mitt Romney will suspend his Presidential campaign, with the announcement at CPAC coming up shortly (carried by C-SPAN2). I don’t have enough time to set up a CiL, so we’re back to the old method for one time and one time only.
F*CK! FU*K! FUC*!
11:38 (all times Central and in 24-hour format) – Laura Ingraham looking real good in black. Also, a question from the Hot Air thread questions what the difference between “suspending” and “ending” is, with the immediate answer that a “suspension” does not release the delegates. Wait one while I go through the Romney roster and see what is and isn’t officially “pledged”.
11:45 – Ingraham introducing Mitt as the “conservative’s conservative” and a “class act” (she got one of two right). There’s the calm-down horseshit again.
11:47 – “What a welcome” as he gets cheered. Guess the crowd didn’t get the memo.
11:48 – (Reminder; I paraphase a lot) Blue tie (not good). Family affair, blah, blah, blah. Last year, CPAC gave me a send-off. Thank you, 11 states that voted for me.
11:49 – Thank you for showing up and speaking up. “Conservative principles are needed now more than ever…. Unless America changes course, we could become the France of the 21st Century.”
11:50 – (More paraphrasing) Only one nation has laid down millions of lives, won, and only took enough land to bury its dead, the US.
11:51 – The biggest challenge we have to face is the attack on America’s culture.
11:52 – “Culture makes all the difference…. What makes America unique?” The drive to succeed, a belief in either God or a higher calling than themselves.
11:54 – “The threat to culture comes from within…. Some think we won against (the culture of welfare), but the liberals haven’t given up…. Dependency is culture-killing.” (perhaps Mitt should have given this speech to Bush 7 years ago when he pushed No Child Left Behind and pushing more of the tax burden on the rich).
11:56 – Talking about fatherless families; sobering stats (60+% of black families, 45+% of Hispanic families, 25% of white families are single-parent families). Pass the Marriage amendment.
11:57 – The failed Europe today is the result of liberalism run amok, driving out God and traditional families. Now onto the economy.
12:45 – Sorry about that; the cable started crashing as I was about to post a rumor that Romney would endorse McCain found on the HotAir thread. Lots of expletives were tossed around the bunker, and it turns out that Romney is going home. Sure sounded like a virtual endorsement of McCain at CPAC, however.
13:13 – One last thought; I hope you weren’t counting on a very conciliatory speech out of McCain in about 45 minutes (if my watch and the schedule are right).
I respect Mitt’s decision, and know how tough that had to be, to make that decision and give that speech. To the downcast conservatives who want to sit home or waste a vote on a write in, I’d just say: When you basically leave the arena, you can not impact the outcome, or at least in a positive manner.
See what happens when conservatives sit out because of dissatisfaction with the President, Congress or the GOP nominee? We get a 2006 Dem Tsunami, and can’t coalesce around a candidate early enough in the nominating process to matter.
Rather than bitch and moan about being screwed by the Country Clubbers, the Establishment, or the tri-lateral commission, we would be wise to refocus and reassert ourselves. And you can’t do that by taking your ball and running home.
I’m not going to begrudge anyone the right to be angry, or the right to sit out an election, or whatever. But just because you have the right to do so, doesn’t mean it is productive for your cause.
I know what you’re saying. If it were anybody but McCain, I’d probably even agree with you. However, I believe that McCain would not listen to conservative influence whether or not we bend over.
I’m now focused on Congress; that is where the conservative successes of the last 14 years (yes, going back to the killing of HillaryCare version 1.0) that will be possible come January 2009 have been.
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I was going to join a “write-in” campaign, but now see that we’d just be giving the election over to Hussein?! Obama-lama in doing so. I will join the others who will vote McCain and then go home for a LONG, HOT shower and never think of it again. We can do what we can in 2009