Mitt Suspends Campaign

I knew this was coming but I’m still brushing away tears:

“If this were only about me, I’d go on,” Romney said. “Frankly I’d be making it easier for Sen. Clinton or Sen. Obama.

“I disagree with Sen. McCain on a number of issues…

(You could hear the audience surpressing boos, here).

 …but I agree with him about doing whatever it takes to win in Iraq and finding Osama bin Laden.”

“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,” Romney said.

“This is not an easy decision for me. I hate to lose. My family, my friends and our supporters… many of you right here in this room… have given a great deal to get me where I have a shot at becoming President. If this were only about me, I would go on. But I entered this race because I love America, and because I love America, I feel I must now stand aside, for our party and for our country,” Romney said.

The speech fell short of an endorsement for McCain as some had speculated it might, but his point that he and McCain agreed on the war was not insignificant.

Huck, on the other hand, for some inexplicable reason has vowed to press on.

A Dork Behind Mitt’s Problems With Evangelicals

The first thing you notice about this guy, is the hair…Then he opens his mouth and a steady stream of Morman-bashing ensues.
Meet Bill Keller….(not NYT’s Executive Editor) but the founder of Bill Keller Ministries:

Bill was raised in the United Methodist Church and asked Jesus Christ into his heart at age 12, feeling a call of God into the ministry at a young age. Bill’s life became sidetracked while attending Ohio State when he started a small business that became very successful.

God got Bill’s attention in 1989 when he became involved in insider trading of the stock market, was convicted, lost everything, and spent the next 2 1/2 years in Federal Prison. Shortly after going into prison, Bill rededicated his life to the Lord, received an undergraduate degree in biblical studies from Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, and was discipled by two precious charismatic couples.

And here is his website, A Vote For Romney Is A Vote For Satan.

There’s a lot of crazy there, but all you need to do to get a good handle on the guy is watch this interview he did with O’Reilly:

The twisted logic of his position is exposed at the very start of the interview:

When O’Reilly asks him if he would object to a Catholic or Jewish person running for president, Keller answers, “Not at all Bill, that’s not what this is about”.

But that doesn’t really square with his explanation that he’s only interested in the “spiritual welfare” of people. You see, he’s worried that a Mormon as President would lead people to convert in greater numbers to his “cult”….damning their own souls to hell.

But what do Evangelicals believe about Jews? Aren’t they doomed as well, because they don’t accept Jesus Christ as their savior? So really, wouldn’t it be logically consistent for him to object to a Jew, as well? I have no idea what his particular sect believes about Catholics…but I do know there are more than a few Fundamentalists out there who believe we are going to hell for what we believe, too. So a Catholic wouldn’t be acceptable in this case, either.

What madness. This is almost Westboro Baptist Church territory.

Keller then has the audacity to condescendingly explain that he doesn’t tell people who to vote for and who not to vote for….even as his website proclaims that “A vote for Romney is a vote for Satan“.

Call me crazy, but my guess is that most of his “flock” would consider that a fairly strong indication of who they shouldn’t vote for.

Romney never had a chance with jack-holes like this out there.

Fred Heads For Mitt

Oh, why the hell, not?

Go Mitt.