Mitt Romney drops out

It's official, Mitt Romney will "suspend" (code for drop out) his campaign according to three GOP sources. I totally called this on Tuesday. Romney is scheduled to speak at the creepy CPAC conference that has DC crawling with conservatives today. Won't this just put a nice little damper on their conference? Coming face to face with the reality that John McCain will be their nominee...

Mitt Romney preparing to drop out?

Looks like it's gonna be down to John McCain, Ron Paul and Huckles after tomorrow, assuming neither of the latter drop out too.

One of my friends here in DC just received a phone call from a friend in Iowa who has been working for the Romney campaign and she is "upset" and said she will hear tomorrow if (but really more like when) she'll be getting laid off." Also, our favorite Mormon who will never be President Mitt Romney has scheduled meetings for the entirety of the day tomorrow....

Mitt Romney caught in a lie (again)

Watch Mitt Romney dance around the fact that he does, despite his denial, in fact have lobbyists working for his campaign by saying that the staffer is "only an advisor and friend." Seriously. Also, if you listen carefully you can hear another reporter ask "well who does have lobbyists working for their campaign by that definition?" Which Romney chooses to totally (and conveniently!) ignore.

But wait! It gets better! At the end of the video a campaign staffer tells the reporter he was unprofessional and rude. Right, because it's sooo professional for the reporter to just let the candidate sit there and tell a bold-faced lie to voters, isn't it?

And even better yet! You can hear an ignorant bystander (equipped with one of those annoying southern accents) call the reporter "rude and ugly." HA HA. So standing up for the truth makes you "rude and ugly" by southern Republican voter standards. How nice! Now we all know why they continue to vote for a party that constantly screws them and the rest of the country over. But mostly just them, because the rest of us are at least smart enough to keep the party that continuously gets it right in office at the local levels.

Mitt Romney doesn't want you to know where he stands today

Not only is Mitt Romney too popular to participate in the YouTube debates, and a dog hater, and a Republican from Massachusetts who wants to be President only slightly more than he wants to do business with Iran, oh and don't forget a Mormon, but he's also really pissed off that we've got questions for him!

Asked about abortion rights last week, Mitt Romney grew exasperated and said: "I'm pro-life; it would be great if we could just leave it at that."

Oh hey there, that's kinda what happens when you change your position every even numbered year, you ass goblin.

But as his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination progresses, Romney is revealing more complex thoughts on the subject for which he has already been labeled a flip-flopper. It shows even his current position defies easy labels or rote town-hall meeting answers.

Before audiences in early voting Iowa and New Hampshire, where Romney leads in the polls, the former Massachusetts governor insisted he wants the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade and allow the states to determine their own abortion policies. He said it's preferable to the "one-size-fits-all" federal approach embedded in the court's 1973 landmark decision that established a constitutional right to abortion.

Let's be honest, though. Mitt Romney doesn't even want to leave it up to the states! He has said in the past that he supports a "Human Life Amendment" for the Constitution that would ban abortion nationwide. Then again, that quote was from more than 24 hours ago so who knows where he stands at this very moment!

Republicans to sweat it out at YouTube debates after all

Mitt Romney, who is too popular to participate in the debates, is the only hold out at this point. From the Washington Post:

This just in: The Republican CNN/YouTube debate, in limbo for the past few weeks, is on again.

But Mitt Romney, who won Saturday's Iowa straw poll and has criticized the debate format, has yet to commit to the Nov. 28 event.

Romney, the lone GOP holdout, has posted more videos on his YouTube channel (283 as of Sunday afternoon) than any other presidential candidate, Republican or Democrat. But he has resisted the debate, in which videotaped questions are submitted through YouTube. In an interview with Manchester Union Leader, Romney said, "I think the presidency ought to be held at a higher level than having to answer questions from a snowman."

One pompous asshat endorsing another

Nothing to see here. Just one asshat endorsing another. Money man, and dog hater Mitt Romney picks up the endorsement of someone most in the nation don't really give a flying fuck about, fat man Bill Bolling.

Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling will endorse Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney today.

Bolling also will be chairman of the former Massachusetts governor's Virginia campaign.

The endorsement was to take place at a news conference at the Omni Hotel here. Romney is visiting Richmond and Hampton Roads to raise money for his presidential campaign.

In a news release prepared in advance of the endorsement, Bolling said, "We can trust him [Romney] to keep America safe at home by defeating the Jihadists abroad; and keep America strong by reining in government spending, keeping taxes low, protecting the values we believe in and confronting head-on the new generation of challenges facing our nation."

Don't Republicans ever get tired of the same old talking points that no one believes anymore? Apparently not.

UPDATE: Lowell has the press release from the DPVA.

Money man Mitt Romney is sooo popular!!

Rich man and dog hater Mitt Romney is far too popular and busy to participate in the Republican YouTube debates scheduled for September.

Rudolph Giuliani and Mitt Romney, both with dozens of videos on their YouTube channels, have not signed up. Neither have the rest of the Republican candidates, including Rep. Tom Tancredo (Colo.), whose "Tancredo Takes" on his YouTube channel draw hundreds of views. Sources familiar with the Guiliani campaign said he's unlikely to participate. Kevin Madden, Romney's spokesman, said the former Massachusetts governor has seven debate invitations covering a span of 11 days in September.

What the fuck? Is Mitt Romney just getting random invitations from random people to come to their house and debate them? Or their kids? Or their kitchen table? Or maybe even their dog? Otherwise, why the hell would he have seven pretend debate invitations. I call bullshit.

Mitt Romney pals around with Anne Coulter

I just stumbled across the video below while doing random YouTube searches. It shows Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney palling around with Conservative neo-con and Fox News 'pundit on call' Anne Coulter at the CPAC 2007 right before Coulter went on stage and used a homophobic slur to describe John Edwards.

COULTER: You know, a photo of you and me together is going to be famous when you do something I don't like and I viciously attack you.
ROMNEY: Never, that will never happen, never will happen.

As some of you may remember, Anne Coulter has expressed several times that "Canada is lucky we allow them to exist on the same continent as us." So in essence, Mitt Romney is promising to wipe out Canada, he's promising to allow for the unquestioned (and unethical) torture of suspected terrorists, he's promising to ban homosexuality, ban abortion, and force Christianity down the throats of Americans everywhere!

Later in the video....

COULTER: No, they don't understand! We hate Liberal Atheists! You can't get these sectarian wars going with us. We're all Christians.
ROMNEY: There's no Sunni or Shia here.

Is that supposed to be funny? Poking fun at sectarian violence, and clash of different religious cultures? Not my idea of a joke.

[Cross posted at Daily Kos]