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.

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.

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.

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.

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'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..

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.

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.

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?

"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?

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.

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

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!

I don't understand why everyone keeps saying Romney is "out of the race" and should drop out. Why aren't they saying the same of Huckabee? As of right now Mc Cain is way ahead in the delegate count but Huckabee has even fewer delegates than Romney does and I don't hear anyone counting Huckabee out or saying he should drop out of the race. I think that the real reason Mc Cain is doing so well is that people really want to get out of Iraq and they think that only McCain can do it with his military background.

Self serving comments by evangelicals from the Southern Baptist Convention and SMU are not useful. It is clear that the South would not vote for a Mormon. (See National Reviews The Corner) Slate Magazine showed that 30 years ago the Southern Baptist Convention began a sunday school program to attack Mormons and other faiths. The primary attack was the Mormons, however.

Huckabee and his ilk have simply used the same stereotypes fostered by their Sunday School Hate the Mormon courses and used Romney as the whipping boy. My Family has been Republican since my 2nd Great Grandfather crossed the battle lines of the Civil War in Alabama to join the Union Army to free the slaves. With Romney out, I will be voting for Obama. One America, including Mormons.

You have to stay in this race. I need someone I can vote for.

As a fairly moderate republican, I think that at this point I would vote for Obama if he is in the race in November. I am not totally with him politically, but he looks the best of all the remaining candidates. it sounds like there might be a lot of other people in Utah who feel the same. If McCain gets the GOP nomination, he could be surprised when Utah goes blue.
Of course, if Hillary wins there is no way I'm going there.

Wow, is all i can say. Those who compare Mccain to Bush really don't know Mccain or his policies at all. Mccain is somewhat respected on the international circuit. Also this prejudice about Mitt losing since he is mormon is just ridicules. Remember in 2000 Mccain barley lost to Bush for the nomination. This is not a huge suprise. Mitt has played as dirty as Mccain. Huckabee on the other hand is a diffrent story. Mitt is not exactly what people here think. He endorses the war, his financial prowess is only one aspect of the presidency I feel he lacks in the other areas namely diplomacy, domestic issues he has obviously shown a lack of knowledge with his change is stances. If you use flip-flopping on other candidates accept this fact for your own. If you dislike Mccain for being liberal say that, but don't state obvious flawed logic by comparing him to people that he is not. The US doesn't hate Utah or mormons so let it go.

thanks to lefty republicans we may see eight years of a hillary obama ticket and eight years of obama with someone else. i dont know if this country will survive that long. but at least the bigot southerners and Mccain supporters got us free* healthcare.

The Plastic has melted.

Mitt should come to Idaho and replace larry craig. keep his name out there and run again in the future. until then vote democrat and teach the south a lesson

i guess you would like to ignore the Vanderbilt study that showed bigots started finding PC refuge in "flip-flopper"

John Geer.
Amy Owens

were over the study,

I think Don (the earlier one) makes a good point about Dems and the West, and McCain's relative weakness there. Hillary shares that weakness, I think.

On another topic: Face it, there is something driving McCain's popularity, and it's the same thing that is causing such interest on the Dem side. That something is this: The conservative movement has collapsed. For all intents and purposes, it's as good as dead. Die-hard conservatives can't handle that truth (yet), but Republicans who aren't blinded by ideology sure have.

The conservative movement, as personified by Limbaugh, Hannity, Coulter, et al, and which has reached it's ultimate manifestation in the utter failure of Bush/Cheney, is being rejected by the American people. Their style of right-wing politics is as popular as last week's garbage, and stinks just as bad.

Don't be too hard on the southern baptist, they just don't have all the information. Stereotyping, bigotry, and hardened hearts keep them from knowing the full Truth. Now, on a different note, Mitt should drop out and my vote is going for Obama. I'm so tired of the Republican-Democrat, red State-blue State, your with us or against us attitude we get from the good ole boys network.

Because I would rather vote for a Democrat then John McCain, I've decided that it would be a major stir to the "system" to go ahead and write-in my vote for the candidate I feel best represents my values instead of voting for someone just because a particular party says I should. Therefore, I will write-in my vote for Romney and hope that all other Romney supporters will do the same. Hopefully this will send a message to the GOP that when we are running against an incumbent Democrat President that a more unifying candidate must be found.

Let's see hmmmm.... a few months ago the tried and true(?) political hacks and various newspapers opinion writers were calling McCain's bid as dead in the water and that the best thing he could do is drop out of the race and let the front runners do their thing.
Should Mitt give up? NO!
He should keep trying. Let some of the previous posts have suggested if Mitt quits now his political career is over. I feel that they are correct.
As for a McCain-Huckabee back door secret deal, it would not surprise me one little bit. As for McCain being a "war hero" big deal. I am a veteran also.
It holds no real meaning to me.

While you Republicans continue to bicker over your candidates, I hope some you will consider getting on board with Obama.

While Obama is more liberal than many of you folks (and me for sure), I see an opportunity to really change Washington in a significant way. Namely, I see an opportunity to work across parties to solve the major issues that ail our country (and divide the parties) like immigration, health care, the environment to name but a few. These issues will require majorities of both parties to achieve a holistic solution.

You people that bemoan the next 8 years of a likely democratic president now know how I feel about the past seven. Bush and the Republican majority (for the first 6 years) has failed on so many fronts. It's time to give somebody else with fresh, promising ideas a chance.

ON CNN RIGHT NOW:

Mitt Romney is "suspending" his campaign.

Done.

Finished.

And for somebody that would probably make a pretty good President he REALLY BLEW IT. People want authenticity...that's NOT what we got from Romney.

After a lifetime of living in this state, I've never felt the phrase "planet Utah" quite like I do now. 90% Romney? Pro-Romney bias in Utah far exceeds any anti-Romney bias in the rest of the country.

This pro-Romney bias appears to be strong enough that Hillary could contend in Utah. Unbelievable.
Some of you need to do a little soul searching.

MITT ROMNEY IS DROPPING OUT!
If ya'll had supported Ron Paul, at least you could have made a statement that you supported the constitution.

It is difficult to believe that America's voterse do not recognize a missed opportunity of electing a fantastic leader that could provide us with a fantasy nation of believers and happy families.

This is another thread for people prone to believing in fairy tales and the outright impossible.

CNN & Fox News reporting that the "Mittster" has dropped out.

If McCain or Huckabee wanted utah's support they should have treated Mitt with at least a little respect.

I think we were all willing to look past a little politic maneuvering but contempt and bullying??? No thanks lets leave that to the Clinton machine.

I don't agree with Obama's position on most things, but my right to freely practice my religion without harassment is more important to me then the negatives of universal healthcare.

This is how Jews and Blacks vote because they know republicans will sit on their hands while their group is attacked. Even though Jews and Blacks often don't agree with Dems over social issues its their right to protection by the constitution and in the media that they vote dem. I think we LDS need to consider if republicans will ever defend us from harassment.

Now that it looks like Mitt can't win, if Billary gets the nomination I will vote for McCain. But if Obama wins the nomination, I will vote for Obama. At least Obama seems genuine and not the typical Washington politician.

There is no doubt that Romney's Mormon religion hurt him. It started in Iowa where I live. There were evangelical talk show hosts that spoke out against him primarily, if not solely, based on religion. I talked to numerous people who admitted that they would not vote for him because of his religion, and Huckabee overwhelmingly won the evangelical vote. Evangelicals used code words in campaigning such as "vote for the REAL Christian". Without the win in Iowa, Hucakabee would not been much of a factor. Romney lost because of his religion, and it was over after Iowa.

The posters on this board are true fans, I'll say that much for you.

Mr. Rommney probably will not ever be the president, but perhaps he derives succor from knowing that he'll always be a rock star in Utah.

Oh, come on Mitt, give me a break, you are done. Leave the race.

I say, stay the course Mitt. I won't vote for the others. They are not what I call Presidential persons. MCCain says you flip flop, what a laugh. He has flip-flopped more times in the last few months than anyone and can't say the truth. His favorite word is I,I,I.
I wouldn't believe one thing he said because he is not an honest man and neither is Huckabee.

After the slimy handshakes of McCain and Huckabee to cheat their way throughout he republican race I hope all of America notices and their popularity goes down the toilet. 2 slime balls that disagree completely with each other totally now working together only to defeat a better candidate. Huckabee sucking up to McCain since he has no chance of winning for President. What does this mean? Yes it does! This is the political slime that is the reason that I am afraid to vote and that adds to the stereotype that all politicians are crooks.
Romney and Obama are the 2 best in the race no question. Both are different but both are decent human beings. McCain and Huckabee are slime. No explanations needed for the Witch.

McCain, Huckleberry, Chuck Norris and other fellow- conspirators can stick their thumbs in our eyes but they can't make us like it. We do have a choice on election day--enter a write-in candidate i.e. Donald Duck, and give the presidency to the Dems who can then usher in the Utopian society which they have been heralding ad nauseum, a sample of which we have witnessed in the past four years of Democratic control of both houses (approval rating at less than 20%). Ironically, John McCain's past few years of RINO activity will deny him the White House which he has coveted for the past 25 years. If the nation has survived four years, maybe eight, of the Dems' Utopia, the Republican Party will return to its roots, arise, like the Phoenix, out of the ashes, sweep the Utopian Dems out of powwer and all will be right with the world. What a scenario! Impossible? I don't think so.

Kids... You might want to check the most recent news. Mitt has gone bye bye! Go back to being playing the role you were destined for, a rich, white, corporate male.

I just had a recollection of what my mom once told me, "Don't vote for them, it just encourages'em!"

Sorry to see Mitt quit. Now I have to listen to the Huckster claim he is from God, he will put more crosses into his ads, and probably explain how he does not believe in evolution. And the new tax plan that he is proposing is a joke.

Oh how did we get this low? Say it ain't so!!!

Where did I put Obama's phone number