Not exactly what you’d call a ringing endorsement.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_84xFEO-Bk

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From the liberal media:
FORMER MASSACHUSETTS GOV. MITT ROMNEY: “We need change, all right — change from a liberal Washington to a conservative Washington! We have a prescription for every American who wants change in Washington — throw out the big-government liberals, and elect John McCain and Sarah Palin.”
THE FACTS: A Back-to-the-Future moment. George W. Bush, […]

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McCain apparently trying to steal some of Obama’s thunder by announcing VP - tomorrow, but it’s supposedly being (strategically, of course) leaked this evening, and there are indications it could be the Mittster.
Then again, Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty has abruptly canceled a bunch of appearances, so maybe not.
Meanwhile, McCain - getting less classy by the […]

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It is entirely fitting that Mitt Romney should come and talk to Lancaster County Republicans at Willow Valley, where you can’t get a drink (unless some sort of special arrangement was in force last evening).
But then, Mitt’s Mormon - and most local Republicans might as well be.

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Hardly a surprise, really, but will it mollify the Limbaugh/Coulter wing of the Republican Party?

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Jon Stewart on Mitt’s exit and classy speech. The appopriate response, and then some.

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Dropping out, sayeth the AP. The last, best hope of conservatives in this race is now gone, and their nemesis - McCain - now wins by default.
McCain-Huckabee, here we come.
This morning I asked some of my conservative e-mailers who they were going to support if Mitt did in fact bail. Two of them said they’ll probably […]

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John Derbyshire over at the (conservative) Corner gets a curious e-mail:
Romney lost here for two reasons that are not mutually exclusive: class warfare and envy. People don’t like him because he is richer, smarter, better-looking and more successful than they are, and so much so, that it is impossible for him to camouflage the difference. […]

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Shockingly, Rick Santorum is endorsing the Mittster. A colleague just mentioned this to me; I hadn’t yet seen it.
“Where’d it come from?” I asked.
Suggested another helpful co-worker: “Maybe from Romney’s opponent.”

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Edwards now out, McCain wins Florida. As per Edwards, he was always and always going to be overshadowed by Hillary and Obama. Will be very, very interesting to see who he endorses - and it could make all the difference in the world.
As for McCain, I’m sort of intrigued that the Republican Party might go […]

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Oh my God, it’s even worse on video than in print. The “Who let the dogs out” business is just painful; even I’m embarassed for Mitt.
Quoth Will Bunch over at Attytood: “If Romney is elected, he definitely won’t be our second ‘black president.’ ”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0H8Nq7BglIg

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In Romney’s pointed head, that is.

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Mitt Romney meets some black people and… ah, write your own joke:
In his dress shirt and tie, and with his unwavering smile, he walked over and posed for photographs with a group of black youngsters. Putting his arm around a teenage girl, he waved to the cameras and offered, “Who let the dogs out?” He […]

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So Mitt wins in Michigan, and the GOP race is wide-open - Huckabee in Iowa, McCain in New Hampshire and now the Mittster.
I like that Ron Paul outpolled both Fred Thompson and Rudy. But clearly this race has narrowed to the top three candidates. Mitt is the movement candidate - his constituency is people who […]

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So freaking typical. The Republican candidates last night are asked about the still-murky “confrontation” between the U.S. Navy and those Iranian boats, and the responses are about what you’d expect - especially from Mitt “If I Only Had a Brain” Romney:
One of the most animated exchanges came when the candidates were asked whether they backed […]

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Hilarious. Romney seems to think his big speech the other day did the trick, defused the idea of his religion as a campaign issue. Huckabee, apparently, isn’t about to let that happen:
Romney, a Mormon, had promised that he would be addressing the subject of his religion a few days later. I asked Huckabee, who describes […]

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Peggy Noonan - Peggy Noonan? - hits a round-tripper:
There was one significant mistake in the speech. I do not know why Romney did not include nonbelievers in his moving portrait of the great American family. We were founded by believing Christians, but soon enough Jeremiah Johnson, and the old proud agnostic mountain men, and the […]

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“Freedom requires religion,” or the politics of exclusion:
Got that? Those of us who don’t believe in Christianity, those of us who don’t believe in God, those of us who don’t believe in the divinity of human-written holy books have no place in the American experiment, can’t be relied on to uphold the principles of our […]

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Headline: Romney vows Mormon church would not run White House.
Damn. And here I was looking forward to the first ladies.
My mother the winger, who is a big Mitt Romney fan, calls to tell me that I have to listen to his speech. “You should Google it or whatever,” she says. Sure thing, mom.
So I find […]

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As per the Romney campaign commercial below, Matt Yglesias asks the pertinent questions:
The idea that we should be laying awake at night afraid that a group of at most several thousand people who control almost no territory or valuable military equipment might establish a universal caliphate or “collapse freedom loving nations like us” is ridiculous. […]

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