Posted on 04/11/2012 3:36:43 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Now it's Romney vs. Obama.
With that in mind and a bruising primary fight finally behind him, Mitt Romney bathed in the praise Tuesday night of a cheering crowd of Chester County Republicans - finally, their party's presidential nominee in all but name.
Hours earlier, Rick Santorum, the former Massachusetts governor's last significant GOP rival, suspended his campaign amid a family health crisis and a growing chorus calls from party leaders for him to drop out of the race.
Santorum's decision, announced at an afternoon appearance in Gettysburg, cleared Romney's path to his party's nomination at its August convention in Tampa and set the stage for what is sure to be a rancorous general election showdown with President Obama.
"This has been quite a day for me," Romney told the gathered crowd at Inn at Mendenhall in southern Chester County. "We'll have work to do ahead of us, but let's all enjoy tonight."
His speech Tuesday night, in one of the suburban "swing" counties that were fiercely contested ground in 2008, also offered Republican faithful here a chance to partake in their candidate's victory lap.
"I knew this was coming at some point, but I didn't think it would come so soon," said Chester County GOP chair Val DiGiorgio, as he scrambled to accommodate an overflow crowd.
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Quit your b*^ch'n you POS liar. It is NOT about you!
“We are keeping their precious Bella in our prayers”...
Presently No Screen Name, just for clarification, did you think the above quote came from Mitt? It is actually from Rick Perry, although I am with you on not believing anything that comes out of Romney’s mouth!
I thought it was from Mitt. Thanks for the correction, I’d gladly want Perry praying from me!
SOYTENLY!!!!
Someone spell it out for me : is Romney truly that much worse and more problematic and antithetical to conservative values than McCain was ? Just askin.
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