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Romney isn't giving up race despite Super Tuesday losses

I guess we have to wait 4 more years to get a Washington outsider to rescue our economy and country.

I for one hope that Romney doesn't give up. His efforts have been valiant and his heart has been in the right place. However, he could have done a couple of things better. He could have continued to run a positive campaign while letting surrogates call his competitors on their inablities to run the government. He could have more forcefully emphasized that in spending his own money he was more independent from special interests than the others.

Perhaps he can still be effective and win this thing. He can win by being humble, honest, and willing to give his ideas to the future. We can't follow or believe in something we have not been told about.

More ideas about streamlining the military and all of the other parts of the government would be welcome. Just putting down the old government hacks is not going to work.

It is a temptation to show the enemy's weakness but a better tact to show one's own strengths. No employer wants to know how bad the other candidates are. He wants to know how good you are. The people of Utah were sold on Mitt's attributes. He should try to sell them to everybody.

I see 90% of you UT GOPers voted for Mitt as did I. Knowing the hatred and outright bigotry on the part of voters in other states as well as McCain and Huck, will you vote for Obama or Clinton to keep these bigots out of the White House? Imagine what they say outside of the press about you...

Mitt needs to save his money and as the article says, his only shot is in 4 years if a demo wins this time. Too bad...he's a very talented guy.

Mitt has no choice but to continue on if he is considering a run in 2012. To quit now is to be a ... quitter. And that would be that.

I am glad he is trying. Huck isn't, but hey. McCain feels cocky and is lining up his ducks. Watching him on tv is so old-fashioned, so old-politics, so predictable.

Meanwhile, the demos are offering a fun race. It will be close. Obama will win out a few in the next few weeks, but Hillary is waiting for Ohio, Texas, and Pennsylvania. This is better than a soap opera. The prize is real.

Stay to the end, Mitt, or you will be labled a quitter.

Your article just shows your liberal side. When did you become all knowing on Mitts chances. It would be nice to get your facts from someone who isn't pro mcain.

Slick and polished? But that is the world he lives in. Obama is also slick and polished but Obama roles up the sleeves, walks around, talks about hope, and laughs a lot. Romney doesn't walk around, and laughs only on ocassion. But the children in his arms really looked good for Romney. Obama hasn't learned that trick yet.

Slick and polished? Yeah, and it didn't win over the general public. The shadow knows.

Clearly Romney is the traditionally more Conservative candidate in the race here. As a republican myself I am now truly concerened about Mcain's comments on 'going to the Gates of hell to find Bin Laden' and other such battlecry talk. It seems like this is what Americans want, I fear McCain is basically Bush but maybe a little more smart, ok, alot more, but still, American needs to have the respect and admiration from the rest of the world like it use to have.Incase those in the Utah bubble dont know EVERYONE HATES US. I fear now that if McCain does make it to the White House then more wars and Anti-Americansims will sweep the world. Also, lets face it, the guys way too old. Go Mitt with your sensible 'level headed' National security agenda.

This is a major story the media elite haven't figured out but the Democrats have. The south is old, the west is new and dynamic.

McCain can't carry the west, Romney has won in Colorado, Nevada, Utah, Montana, and Wyoming and will also win Idaho, and frankly did very well in Arizona.

The Democrats have figured out that the west is the new powerbroker in naitonal politics and ther are now popular Democratic Governors in Wyoming, Montana, New Mexico, Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado, and Salazar and Tester are new Democratic US Senators. and the Democrats are holding their National Convention in Denver.

So, a real story line that ought to be emerging instead of bashing Mitt,is what happens if McCain selects an out spoken anti-mormon running mate, and a lot of Mormons out west switch and vote Democrat. It you put colorado, utah, Nevada, New Mexico, Montana, Wyoming, Arizona and Idaho in the Democrat column, go figure the new electorial vote count and then we in the west could say, who really cares about the old south ? Not me

I believe Obama or Clinton will be the nexted President. It really is a long shot for any Republican canidate to beat the momentum of the Democrats. So, with that said, Mitt Romney will have a better chance in 2012. Just think about 4 years of Democrats ruling the Presidency, House and Senate. They will spend us into oblivian. Scary thought! Get your 2 years food stored,you have been warned.

I'm sorry to see Romney get beat out by a couple of "good ole boys" politicans. but they know they will still get the utah mormon vote..wake up and smell the coffee (pero). the evangelicals laugh at you people and know you will still vote the way they want you to...they are NOT your friends people..

Richard Land is all wet. The Southern Baptists made a concerted effort to whitewash Romney as a flip-flopper, but Mitt's only change was on abortion and that came late in his term as governor about the time of the stem cell research debate. If you want to see a real flip-flopper, look at McCain. One day he calls himself a moderate liberal so he can win New York, the next day he's a conservative. He's anything but conservative, what with McCain-Feingold, McCain-Kennedy, and his vote against Bush's tax cuts. He claims he's the best to become commander in cheif. What did he ever command, except perhaps a small group of navel pilots? He has no experience or expertise in strategic planning. He claims he was in a boat circling Cuba in 1962 during Kennedy's Cuban crisis. I was at Fort Mead Maryland's Military Intelligence School then looking at the same aerial photos he saw, but neither of us has an ounce of stratecic military experience. McCain's a fraud. War hero? Perhaps. But there are a lot of war heros that have more common sense than McCain. Don White, former member,142nd MI Linguist Company, SLC.

I now cross party lines and vote for the only honest one in both party's Obama...sorry Mitt you ran a good race but can't beat the old dyed in wool politicans...they have no shame ( or honesty)..

Seems like there is a lot of pressure for romney to drop out. Why not huckabee who has far fewer delegates than romney.

Well, I'm not surprised Romney's not dropping out, he's too egotistical. Meanwhile, there's a little plot, I think, between McCain and Huckabee. Huckabee's staying in the race to siphon votes from Romney, something McCain's asked him to do. When McCain is chosen as the R nominee (because Romney couldn't win enough states, guess why), he'll choose Huckabee as his VP. Any questions?

Romney's political career is doomed, unless he decides to move to Utah, or possibly one of the neighboring states with a Mormon influence. His LDS church connection will translate into an easy run for a senate seat, for example. Elsewhere, his sidewalk act as a liar is too well known for the 60 year-old to rebound into another highly placed political office.

"This is the greatest resurrection since Lazarus. Six months ago, this guy was given up for dead," said Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission in Nashville."

What a theoloical infant he proves himself to be! Jesus was the girst to be resurrected. Lauzarus was merely brought back to life which is entirely different. Reserrection is the re-uniting with the spirit with a perfect immortal body. Coming back to life , as did Lazarus, is entirely different.

So should a dunce like him be in charge of the Southern Baptist Convention's ethics and religious liberty commission?

Regarding the quote by Richard Land (President of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission):

"This is the greatest resurrection since Lazarus."

Well ... I'm going to have to say the greatest resurrection since Lazarus was that of Christ. I would expect a little more wit from Richard. I'm sure he didn't realize what he was saying. ha ha

About a year ago, Mitt read some reports from his high-paid consultants. Then he sold his political soul to the devil.

Problem for Mitt is that only a gullible few bought into his sudden and miraculous conservative conversion.

Now, millions upon millions of dollars later, what has he won outside of "home" states . . . Montana, Nevada and Wyoming?

Talk about political H - E - double toothpicks.

I think 2012 is going to be THE YEAR for Romney - IF and ONLY IF he changes into a TRUE Christian religion! Perhaps he can join Huckabees' congregation!

Romney in 2028! By then, his plastic persona will have been forgotten and he can spend more of his fortune on a pipe dream!