Well, maybe. Sorta… This paragraph from the latest AP campaign coverage tells us something:
This week the multimillionaire former venture capitalist authorized only a modest $3 million advertising buy, after committing $35 million of his own money last year in an effort to lock up the nomination early with back-to-back wins in Iowa and New Hampshire.
More clues appear further down the column:
If Romney wins the winner-take-all states he visits and McCain won the others, the Arizona senator would outscore him on delegates, leaving Romney with the choice of either quitting or dumping more of his own money in a protracted battle for delegates. He has said that he and his wife have set a limit on their personal contribution to the race, although they have not divulged the figure.Romney’s only public appearance of the day was a rally in the jam-packed showroom of a Denver Ford dealer. He mentioned McCain only once as he sought to contrast his 25 years as a businessman with McCain’s four terms in the Senate.
Hmmm….
Betrayal!!!!! OMG!!!! OMG!!!! OMG!!! OMG!!! AARRRGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!!
Just preparing my eardrums for the Four Screamers of the Apocalypse if Romney actually drops out
This, from the AP article, is the Mitt Romney I know as a life long Massachusetts citizens. Mitt said, “”I really thought it would all be over, you know, early in January, and now we’re going to go into February, and I just can’t predict what will happen in February,” he said, “so we’ll see what happens.”
The first part revels the data wonk, grind, systems annalist in Mitt, and his basically shallow and closed thinking. There’s no plan B. Just the assumption that everything would go along, as planed.
I have an idea where he felt this notion. First Mormonism, which is fairly closed to different ideas. (Met any good Mormon scientists/writers ? ). Second, he’s a daddy’s boy, and a royalty daddy’s boy, reliving dad’s life. Third, academic grind. Lawyer. Lastly, his economic history of pick and choose businesses. Pass or go. You don’t get that in politics, it like warfare is too fluid. Not that any Romney would know.
Mitt says, “I just can’t predict what will happen..” You can almost hear the data wonk/grind frustration in Mitt, “The Brightest Guy In The Room”. It is kind of fitting that a guy who got worked over by the North Vietnamese, who was down and out and broke, has refused to give up and come back. Mitt, the prep school boy, can’t take the beatings.
Lastly the part, “So, we’ll see what happens” Here Mitt once again gives in to “The Plan” , very passive.
Like many successful elite, Mitt has lived a programmed, step by grinding step life. He thinks he cut the mountain passes, he was the one that stood in the snow at Bastone, he drilled the oil on the rig in Arabia. Of course he didn’t do anything, ever, like that. He has been amongst paper, and data all his life. Now he has met his General Giap, and like McNamara doesn’t know he has a fight to the finish.
So, in spite of being a loser graduate of Annapolis, McCain is better educated for a real, messy world of crazy, strong willed guys.
While I have reservations about McCain, I am unable to understand the claim that Romney is a “conservative” — if “conservative” means anything at all about supporting capitalism and free markets.
In Massachusetts, Romney implemented “universal healthcare” — what we used to call socialized medicine — and he did it the only way it can be done: at the point of a gun. He eliminated Massachusett’s uninsured by making it illegal to be uninsured — and by imposing fines for those who break the law.
How on earth is this “conservative”? How is this any different from what Hillary and Obama are promising to do?
I understand what Carl Spackler is saying, and it is somewhat inspiring to watch the scrappy McCain fight back after so many had written him off, but jeez…! I wish I liked this guy more. His support for the surge and his promise to follow bin Ladin “to the gates of hell” notwithstanding, he just doesn’t seem to have the stones for this fight. Okay, Bush doesn’t either, but that’s a sad story that is coming to its end.
Case in point: Israel. Is there any candidate out there that won’t enact some version of “those land-stealin’ Jews have to give up more (and put up with more) so we can all have oil…er, I mean, peace.”? I’d like to hear one of them denounce the Annapolis dog and pony show for the disgrace that it is.
Border security? McCain’s man on immigration speaks of “one region, rather than two countries.” You don’t have to be a Huckabee fantasist to see problems with that.
Iran? Syrian influence on Lebanon? The UN? Saudi money pouring into US educational institutions and Dihmmie Carter-like think tanks?
It is slim pickings. Oh well, I’ll just put a bumper sticker on my car (next to STOP JIHAD) that reads ANYONE BUT OBAMA.