Mittens Is 'Out'!

We Won't Have Mitt To Kick Around Anymore
So Mitt 'suspended' his campaign today. More on that in a minute. For now it means that Guy Smiley has decided that it's not worth any more of his Clear Channel millions to fight the good fight and soldier on after the double humiliation he got on Tuesday, with McCain smashing in his teeth from the center and Huckabee putting a boot up his ass on the right.

Ahh, Mittens. We hardly knew ye.

What does this mean for the election? A couple of things. One: this is great news for Huckabee. A lot, and I mean a LOT, of people who vote for Romney will go to him, not McCain. Huckabee just went from a solid third place to a very comfortable second. Two: This is *not* great news for McCain. Romney only 'suspended' his campaign, which means his delegates aren't dispersed. It's up to the individual state in the Republican party, but at least some, perhaps most, of his delegates remain his for the convention. If he was to formally toss them to a resurgent Huckabee, it could get ugly.

Suspending a campaign has a different meaning depending on the party.

On the Republican side, decisions on how to allocate delegates is left to the state parties.

So McCain has to suck up, and suck up he shall. Oh, the sucking we shall see. Think Bangkok whorehouse,if you like.

According to a senior McCain adviser, McCain called Romney and told him he "admired his speech today and that he was a tough competitor."

McCain also told Romney he looks forward to sitting down with him at the earliest opportunity. McCain did not ask Romney for his endorsement.

McCain is being pretty friendly with him, considering, oh, this, amongst other things:

This morning on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Mary Matalin — former Dick Cheney adviser and current Mitt Romney flack — made what appeared to be a back-handed swipe at John McCain’s family. Romney has “what all Americans want in the White House,” Matalin said, “which is an all-American family”

John McCain, for those of you who don't know, has an adopted daughter from Bangladesh. So by 'All-American', Matalin means 'not-a-damn-darkie-among-them'.

Food for thought.

So what does Romney have to say about this? The campaign suspension, not the McCain suckup or the tacit racism, I mean. Why not-quit now?

"If I fight on in my campaign, all the way to the convention, I would forestall the launch of a national campaign and make it more likely that Senator Clinton or Obama would win. And in this time of war, I simply cannot let my campaign, be a part of aiding a surrender to terror."

Ahh, so classy. Implying that two United States Senators want us to lose to a phantom enemy that exists only in our own minds.

Glad he took the high road. None of that 'spending more time with my family' crap.

Source: TPM Election Central
CNN.com
Think Progress