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Romney drops out of race for GOP nomination
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Walter Mason
Salt Lake City
Throughout all the morphing and shape-shifting, position changes and winking, he has joined Rudy Giuliani among the also-rans of the political struggle. Now it appears that he is positioning himself for an alliance with John McCain with his Bushie statement of supporting whatever it takes (whatever that means?) to "win" in Iraq.
Iraq was a gross mistake. Costly in valued American lives and lucre finance through the largess of China. Too bad he doesn't have the sense of his father and take a path that can bring all Americans together rather than stretch the fault lines of Bush/Cheney divisiveness. Rather than move forward, he became a Bush clone.
Anyway, he's gone and no tears will be shed over his decision. Perhaps this is the price he pays for his strategy to get in bed with the evangelical Right and kiss up to the neo-con wingnuts making the loud, overbearing noises that have redefined American "democracy" (small "d") as a nation of totalitarian-like practices including domestic spying, supporting torture, and establishing the so-called �unitary executive� or dictator.
help fix the country and we ran him out. I am seriously concerned about the future of our country...economically, the war, we may be in for a real eye opener.
Mitt 2012!
Where can I buy a bumper sticker that say's,
"Don't blame me,I voted for Romney".
When you get it, make sure you place it next to your "Blame me, I voted for Bush" sticker.
Maybe now all the deadly weather will stop in all the states that supported Huckabee.
Hill and Bill go on to win the election in November and the Democrats maintain control of the House and the Senate. Hillary is sworn in as President on January 20, 2009. The next day, she calls a press conference to make an announcement: she is resigning as President! Bill, as the Vice President, immediately becomes President!!! This is all perfectly legal under the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution, for it states that "no person may be elected as president more than twice". Bill is not being elected for a third term but is merely serving out the remainder of Hillary's term---all 4 years of it.5. But wait! There's more! following day Bill calls a press conference to make an announcement. He has chosen someone to fill the now-vacant office of Vice President. Guess who he picks? Why,Hillary, course!!! And she would still be able to run for president again!!!
Thismay have cured some of the bad blood between McCain and Romney.
Too bad there is such hatred for people who love their country and are trying to help their fellow man.
"Slim chances for Romney
I read Ryan Jenkins' "My View" with interest (Jan. 7). While he suggests that Mitt Romney's membership in the LDS Church should not be an issue in the election, he fails to mention where much of the faith-based opposition comes from. It is widely believed that no candidate can win the Republican nomination without support in the South. Southern Evangelicals consider the LDS Church to be a cult in the same style as the Branch Davidians from Waco or the Jonestowners who drank poisoned Kool-Aid. These are the same people who denied a Mormon girl the right to say the school prayer at a football game in 1995 because she was not Christian enough.
While I wish Mr. Romney luck, it seems unlikely he has a chance as long as he seeks the nomination in a party dominated by social conservatives with evangelical roots.
Dale J. Christensen
West Jordan"
People responded about how he could win in the south. He failed to win in the south.
Get out of Utah to see reality, I did.
Huckabee says Mormons are not Christians and he is a bigot, so maybe it is time Utahns turn to a more mainstream Democratic party.
Kind of a nasty swipe, his suggesting that a clinton or obama win somehow is good for 'terror'.
Oh, well. Ya did good, mitt, even if only to show us here again that all the smug righteousness we live amidst here in utah is actually disconnected from the reality out there beyond the curtain. You also served up a lot of crow to needy folks today.
But, what will the desnews cover now?
Now we have:
Juan McCain, great family values, ask wife #1 and family #1
Clinton, no family values and a husband that can't stay away from other women
Obama, an undefined vision with absolutely no experience in anything, hey but a great speaker?
God Bless the USA, we need it
To everybody that supported this guy - please do everyone a favor and move to either Florida or maybe it's time to move to Missouri.
To say that he has such high integrity is a joke - all you that jumped on his bandwagon simply because he was mormon should just be ashamed of yourself. Where is his integrity....when he ran for Governor he was basically a liberal democrat - now he is captain conservative....please give me a break.
Where is the next winter Olympics?? maybe he could move there and "save" them.
GOOD RIDDANCE Mitt - you will not be missed.
You make very good comments and that is exactly what we should do, hand the GOP a defeat and teach them a lession.
Bush lied to Nevada about Yucca Mountain to win, hopefully they will remember that too. Then two of the red states the GOP takes for granted can make a point---we are sick of them letting us down.
Do I like my choices? Not today nor yesterday.
And those of you who plan to write Romney in when it comes time to vote--that's your freedom of choice. But I hope by then you have had a chance to determine how to act in a more productive, constructive way to vote. At least to consider the possibility. If after that writing in Romney is to maintain your integrity, then I support your decision.
Gobama!
And since when do the Democrats equal terrorists? They're not the enemy, they just have different ideas and ways of voting than conservatives do.
Romney had no agenda other than love of his country. The pundits set out to derail him from the very first. It's indeed a SAD day for America!! Bring on the Second Coming. Only the Lord will be able to straighten all this out.
ROMNEY 2012! GO MITT GO! WE LOVE YOU!
Thy will be done.
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