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Romney Pulling Out? Campaign Doesn't Want "To Look Destructive At What Might Be The End."
National Review Corner Blog ^ | 2/07/08 | Byron York

Posted on 02/07/2008 9:01:46 AM PST by Greg F

We are beginning to see signs that Mitt Romney might be preparing to pull out of the Republican race.

Everyone is looking for tea leaves from the campaign, and we'll know more about the governor's state of mind when we hear from him at CPAC today. But in the last 24 hours, I have noticed a dramatic drop-off in the number of emails I have received from Team Romney. This is no small thing. Every reporter will tell you they receive reams of emails from the Romney campaign. But the last one I got was at 1:47 p.m. yesterday, advising me of Romney's campaign schedule in Maryland. Before that, I last received on at 8:37 a.m., advising me of Romney's CPAC speech.

Normally in that time period, I would have received lots of emails telling me, among other things, that John McCain's Straight Talk Express had taken a detour. For example, I would have expected to receive one about McCain's "calm down" remark. But nothing from the Romney camp. I wondered whether the campaign is dialing back its aggressiveness in preparation for a Romney withdrawal. . . .

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; byronyork; romney
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To: JFC
McCain doesn’t WANT to listen to us

Have you noticed what we sound like?

81 posted on 02/07/2008 9:34:03 AM PST by mhx
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To: cinives

He loves Reagan.

Maybe he will listen to conservatives if they acted more like Reagan and John Roberts instead of Ann Coulter and Robert Bork. It is these “new” conservatives that are alienating most Americans.


82 posted on 02/07/2008 9:35:02 AM PST by ari-freedom (For conservatism, as Ronald Reagan told us "is not a narrow ideology.")
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To: HamiltonJay

Nearly exactly what I thought..........


83 posted on 02/07/2008 9:35:46 AM PST by Osage Orange (MOLON LABE)
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To: Greg F

Looks like its Plan C

Plan A) Vote for Fred Thompson in Feb 9th Caucus

Plan B) Vote for Mitt Romney in Feb 9th Caucus

Plan C) Go Skiing


84 posted on 02/07/2008 9:36:04 AM PST by NavyCanDo
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To: Greg F

Mike said he would not quit because the “lead horse may break a leg” during an interview 6th it may be Mike has insight we shall see


85 posted on 02/07/2008 9:37:17 AM PST by Tigen
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To: Rock&RollRepublican
“I just suspended my participation in the Republican Party.”

We have been for quite a while.

We’re very sorry, if Karl Rove, is right on Mitt.

Dirty politics by the McCain camp - through changing their vote for the Huckster to deny Mitt a win when the McCain was tanking ... that’s dirty. It goes to show that these non conservatives are as DIRTY as Demoncrats. It didn’t use to be that way ... .

We’ll be sitting home if Mitt with drawls.

86 posted on 02/07/2008 9:37:31 AM PST by nmh (Mike Huckabee the "religious" humanist that pushes socialism! (Clinton/Carter combo))
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To: Rock&RollRepublican
“I just suspended my participation in the Republican Party.”

We have been for quite a while.

We’re very sorry, if Karl Rove, is right on Mitt.

Dirty politics by the McCain camp - through changing their vote for the Huckster to deny Mitt a win when the McCain was tanking ... that’s dirty. It goes to show that these non conservatives are as DIRTY as Demoncrats. It didn’t use to be that way ... .

We’ll be sitting home if Mitt with drawls.

87 posted on 02/07/2008 9:37:40 AM PST by nmh (Mike Huckabee the "religious" humanist that pushes socialism! (Clinton/Carter combo))
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To: nmh
Mike Huckabee the "religious" humanist that pushes socialism!

OK, so now we are left with the Rockefeller Foundation Huckabee or the Soros Puppet McCain.

We now have two men searching for riches and power. One (McCain) had to marry it and the other it still sucking off the men behind the curtain. The self made gentleman who made his own money has just left stage. Be careful what you wish for.

88 posted on 02/07/2008 9:37:45 AM PST by bmwcyle (the Beltway crowd is like a bunch of women who have started menstruating together)
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To: HamiltonJay
Listening is a 2 way street.... you will never get the ear of someone when you are out there spewing insanely over the top ridiculous rhetoric about them.

Agreed. There's plenty not to like about McCain, but much of the current anti-McCain hyperbole is based on personal pique and copycat piling on, not serious and sober reflection.

So we've arrived at the rhetorical point on FR where McCain is a nasty socialist traitor and Fred Thompson, McCain's soulmate in the Senate and co-sponsor of the campaign censorship bill, belongs on Mount Rushmore.

89 posted on 02/07/2008 9:40:17 AM PST by Oliver Optic (Angry, amnesty-loving, conservative-hating sociopaths for McCain! Join today!)
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To: Greg F; BillyBoy; unspun

I’m a Huckabee supporter, and I think that this is great news. The majority of the anti-McCain GOP primary voters will vote for Huckabee, and Huckabee has a better chance of winning the nomination.


90 posted on 02/07/2008 9:41:19 AM PST by PhilCollins
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To: moderate_conservative
McCain for President!

I was planning to vote for McCain in the general if he won the nomination. After what he pulled in WVa, however, I'll be voting third party or not at all.

91 posted on 02/07/2008 9:41:20 AM PST by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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To: AuntB

He sounds like the Weapons officer on my ship - but I’ll still vote for him, McCain that is ...


92 posted on 02/07/2008 9:42:56 AM PST by 11th_VA
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To: cinives

Shhhhhhhh ... the kid is napping.


93 posted on 02/07/2008 9:44:59 AM PST by G.Mason (And what is intelligence if not the craft of out-thinking our adversaries?)
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To: HamiltonJay

in case you haven’t noticed, we true Conservatives have been inored for years.. This is merely the final impetus to leave the RINO’s and form our own party.


94 posted on 02/07/2008 9:45:31 AM PST by acapesket (never had a vote count in all my years here)
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To: CharlesWayneCT
Drinking Coffee Very well reasoned post.
95 posted on 02/07/2008 9:45:41 AM PST by HawaiianGecko (If you can't run with the big dogs...)
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To: Greg F

Does anyone think he might drop the R and run as an I ?
I hope he does not cut a deal with anyone...he has been slimed..while none are perfect he has been the most dignified throughout.


96 posted on 02/07/2008 9:48:20 AM PST by celtic gal
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To: mad puppy
I can hold my nose and vote if I have to, but how do you keep from throwing up?

It's going to take a pair of vise grip pliers to hold my nose tight enough to keep out the stench....I'm not sure that'd be enough.

Maybe if we did a labotomy to kill our sense of smell we could make ourselves vote for McCain. I'd probably have to start sucking c**ks for a living, just to get my self respect back.

97 posted on 02/07/2008 9:48:39 AM PST by Retired COB (Still mad about Campaign Finance Reform)
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To: acapesket
This is merely the final impetus to leave the RINO’s and form our own party.

So, you believe you are unable to get a canidate past the primary process in the Republican party, but you will be effective as an independent party?

I suggest you read the last sentence of my previous post one more time, because thinking like yours will make it change from an observation to prophetic.

The self described “very conservative” wing is eating its own at this point, and if it isn’t careful will wind up relegated to irrellevance.

98 posted on 02/07/2008 9:49:31 AM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: Greg F

What about all the people that hate Huckabee?


99 posted on 02/07/2008 9:49:47 AM PST by stuartcr (Election year.....Who we gonna hate, in '08?)
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To: PhilCollins
I’m a Huckabee supporter, and I think that this is great news. The majority of the anti-McCain GOP primary voters will vote for Huckabee, and Huckabee has a better chance of winning the nomination.

Phil ... I've been a Huckabee supporter, too, since Fred dropped out ... but Huckabee (like Mitt) has no realistic shot at the nomination now. There just aren't enough delegates left on the table.

100 posted on 02/07/2008 9:50:54 AM PST by Oliver Optic
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