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...and the award for least graceful exit from a presidential race goes to:

Human TideHuman Tide Posts: 328
edited February 2008 in A Moving Train
Mitt Romney!

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/02/07/romney.campaign/index.html

"In this time of war, I simply cannot let my campaign be a part of aiding a surrender to terror."

This quote is one for the ages. One day we'll all tell our grandchildren how Mitt Romney saved the United States by ending his presidential campaign.
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  • ajedigeckoajedigecko \m/deplorable af \m/ Posts: 2,431
    Human Tide wrote:
    Mitt Romney!

    http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/02/07/romney.campaign/index.html

    "In this time of war, I simply cannot let my campaign be a part of aiding a surrender to terror."

    This quote is one for the ages. One day we'll all tell our grandchildren how Mitt Romney saved the United States by ending his presidential campaign.
    bye.
    live and let live...unless it violates the pearligious doctrine.
  • gimmesometruth27gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 23,313
    thanks for playing mitt. if you love america so much, if you are such a big tough man and saviour of the country, why don't you throw in some of your own money and continue the race? put your money where your mouth is and maybe "prevent the surrender to terrorists"....

    the bottom line is he got his ass kicked and is taking his ball and going home. he wanted to avoid another humiliating defeat, and did not want to see huckabee legitimately overtake him in the south. he had to get in one last jab at the dems, who would both beat him in the general election. that comment is one of the stupidest things i have ever heard. more of the same crap that so famously comes out of the neocons' mouths.
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  • my2handsmy2hands Posts: 17,117
    gimmesometruth27 wrote:
    more of the same crap that so famously comes out of the neocons' mouths.

    yup...


    they keep going to the well and it is dry as a bone
  • idratherbeidratherbe Posts: 367
    Human Tide wrote:
    This quote is one for the ages. One day we'll all tell our grandchildren how Mitt Romney saved the United States by ending his presidential campaign.

    Haw! Thanks for the laugh, I needed it. :D

    See ya, Mitt!

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  • CosmoCosmo Posts: 12,225
    Human Tide wrote:
    Mitt Romney!

    http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/02/07/romney.campaign/index.html

    "In this time of war, I simply cannot let my campaign be a part of aiding a surrender to terror."

    This quote is one for the ages. One day we'll all tell our grandchildren how Mitt Romney saved the United States by ending his presidential campaign.
    ...
    What a TOOL.
    How is his campaign aiding a surrender to terror? If he possessed character, he'd stay to fight the good fight.
    My guess... he was tired of getting nagged by Mrs. Romney for blowing all of that cash to get a Bronze Medal.
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  • tybirdtybird Posts: 17,388
    gimmesometruth27 wrote:
    the bottom line is he got his ass kicked and is taking his ball and going home. he wanted to avoid another humiliating defeat, and did not want to see huckabee legitimately overtake him in the south. .
    Actually McCain's second place in Alabama is more amazing than Fuckabee's win....McCain basically suspended his campaign here back in June...no money to pay his peeps working.....then he runs a close second.....the rising waters of McCain are what is drowning Mitt.

    BTW, what presidential candidate is of a religion that was basically at war (guns & shit) with the U.S. Government at one point in history???? Name the former candidate and his religion.
    All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a thousand enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
  • theroachmantheroachman Posts: 362
    tybird wrote:
    Actually McCain's second place in Alabama is more amazing than Fuckabee's win....McCain basically suspended his campaign here back in June...no money to pay his peeps working.....then he runs a close second.....the rising waters of McCain are what is drowning Mitt.

    BTW, what presidential candidate is of a religion that was basically at war (guns & shit) with the U.S. Government at one point in history???? Name the former candidate and his religion.

    Joseph Smith Jr Morman

    year? I'd have to google. I only remember this from the watching the Simpsons. Jedadia Smith town founder of Springfield.
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  • gimmesometruth27gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 23,313
    theroachman wrote:
    Joseph Smith Jr Morman

    year? I'd have to google. I only remember this from the watching the Simpsons. Jedadia Smith town founder of Springfield.

    wow, i had no idea that happened.
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  • Solat13Solat13 Posts: 6,996
    tybird wrote:
    Actually McCain's second place in Alabama is more amazing than Fuckabee's win....McCain basically suspended his campaign here back in June...no money to pay his peeps working.....then he runs a close second.....the rising waters of McCain are what is drowning Mitt.

    BTW, what presidential candidate is of a religion that was basically at war (guns & shit) with the U.S. Government at one point in history???? Name the former candidate and his religion.

    There were several times the Government attacked the Mormons. In Missouri and then Illinois, the US was at war with the Mormons.

    Then in 1857, with the country divided over slavery among other things President Buchanan sent the largest assembly of federal troops at the time to Utah to remove Brigham Young from power and declared war on the Mormons in hope of uniting the country. This led to the Mormons slaughtering everyone over the age of 5 on a wagon train crossing Utah en route to California from Arkansas. This wagon train was the Fancher Party and the slaughter is known as the Mountain Meadows Massacre.

    I'm reading Under the Banner of Heaven by the same guy who wrote Into the Wild and it's a fascinating book about the history of the Mormon religion.
    - Busted down the pretext
    - 8/28/98
    - 9/2/00
    - 4/28/03, 5/3/03, 7/3/03, 7/5/03, 7/6/03, 7/9/03, 7/11/03, 7/12/03, 7/14/03
    - 9/28/04, 9/29/04, 10/1/04, 10/2/04
    - 9/11/05, 9/12/05, 9/13/05, 9/30/05, 10/1/05, 10/3/05
    - 5/12/06, 5/13/06, 5/27/06, 5/28/06, 5/30/06, 6/1/06, 6/3/06, 6/23/06, 7/22/06, 7/23/06, 12/2/06, 12/9/06
    - 8/2/07, 8/5/07
    - 6/19/08, 6/20/08, 6/22/08, 6/24/08, 6/25/08, 6/27/08, 6/28/08, 6/30/08, 7/1/08
    - 8/23/09, 8/24/09, 9/21/09, 9/22/09, 10/27/09, 10/28/09, 10/30/09, 10/31/09
    - 5/15/10, 5/17/10, 5/18/10, 5/20/10, 5/21/10, 10/23/10, 10/24/10
    - 9/11/11, 9/12/11
    - 10/18/13, 10/21/13, 10/22/13, 11/30/13, 12/4/13
  • tybirdtybird Posts: 17,388
    Solat13 wrote:
    There were several times the Government attacked the Mormons. In Missouri and then Illinois, the US was at war with the Mormons.

    Then in 1857, with the country divided over slavery among other things President Buchanan sent the largest assembly of federal troops at the time to Utah to remove Brigham Young from power and declared war on the Mormons in hope of uniting the country. This led to the Mormons slaughtering everyone over the age of 5 on a wagon train crossing Utah en route to California from Arkansas. This wagon train was the Fancher Party and the slaughter is known as the Mountain Meadows Massacre.

    I'm reading Under the Banner of Heaven by the same guy who wrote Into the Wild and it's a fascinating book about the history of the Mormon religion.
    I believe that there were further instances of violence in the 1870's or there about, where Federal Troops were sent into the Mormon territories.

    Harry Turtledove has done a spectacular series of alternate history novels where the South won the Civil War....he started in the 1880's and carried it onto World War II....in this series, the Mormons are always using war between the USA and CSA as an excuse to rebel against the USA and secede from the union...well written stuff.
    All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a thousand enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
  • CosmoCosmo Posts: 12,225
    Something else...
    "In this time of war, I simply cannot let my campaign be a part of aiding a surrender to terror."
    ...
    So, what does he do? He surrenders.
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  • tybirdtybird Posts: 17,388
    Cosmo wrote:
    Something else...
    "In this time of war, I simply cannot let my campaign be a part of aiding a surrender to terror."
    ...
    So, what does he do? He surrenders.
    shhhhh....he's going covert on their ass. :D
    All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a thousand enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
  • theroachmantheroachman Posts: 362
    Cosmo wrote:
    Something else...
    "In this time of war, I simply cannot let my campaign be a part of aiding a surrender to terror."
    ...
    So, what does he do? He surrenders.


    John Stewert puts the whole Mitt opening speach for his 2012 election campaign best:

    http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/02/08/jon-stewarts-farewell-to-mitt-romney-fc-yu/

    :)
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  • theroachmantheroachman Posts: 362
    tybird wrote:
    I believe that there were further instances of violence in the 1870's or there about, where Federal Troops were sent into the Mormon territories.

    Harry Turtledove has done a spectacular series of alternate history novels where the South won the Civil War....he started in the 1880's and carried it onto World War II....in this series, the Mormons are always using war between the USA and CSA as an excuse to rebel against the USA and secede from the union...well written stuff.


    I am pretty sure you are correct. But I think Joseph Smith Jr. was the only Morman to run for President prior to Mitt
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  • Solat13Solat13 Posts: 6,996
    theroachman wrote:
    I am pretty sure you are correct. But I think Joseph Smith Jr. was the only Morman to run for President prior to Mitt

    I'm sure there have been more. I know Mitt's dad ran in 1968 but dropped out because he was against the Vietnam War and lost much of his Republican backing because of this and Nixon got the nomination.
    - Busted down the pretext
    - 8/28/98
    - 9/2/00
    - 4/28/03, 5/3/03, 7/3/03, 7/5/03, 7/6/03, 7/9/03, 7/11/03, 7/12/03, 7/14/03
    - 9/28/04, 9/29/04, 10/1/04, 10/2/04
    - 9/11/05, 9/12/05, 9/13/05, 9/30/05, 10/1/05, 10/3/05
    - 5/12/06, 5/13/06, 5/27/06, 5/28/06, 5/30/06, 6/1/06, 6/3/06, 6/23/06, 7/22/06, 7/23/06, 12/2/06, 12/9/06
    - 8/2/07, 8/5/07
    - 6/19/08, 6/20/08, 6/22/08, 6/24/08, 6/25/08, 6/27/08, 6/28/08, 6/30/08, 7/1/08
    - 8/23/09, 8/24/09, 9/21/09, 9/22/09, 10/27/09, 10/28/09, 10/30/09, 10/31/09
    - 5/15/10, 5/17/10, 5/18/10, 5/20/10, 5/21/10, 10/23/10, 10/24/10
    - 9/11/11, 9/12/11
    - 10/18/13, 10/21/13, 10/22/13, 11/30/13, 12/4/13
  • theroachmantheroachman Posts: 362
    Solat13 wrote:
    I'm sure there have been more. I know Mitt's dad ran in 1968 but dropped out because he was against the Vietnam War and lost much of his Republican backing because of this and Nixon got the nomination.


    Totaly forgot that one Thanks

    So there was at least two prior to Mitt then?
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  • Solat13Solat13 Posts: 6,996
    theroachman wrote:
    Totaly forgot that one Thanks

    So there was at least two prior to Mitt then?

    I just googled Mormons who ran for president and got this:

    http://mormonmatters.org/2008/02/05/9-mormons-who-ran-for-president/

    So Mitt was the 10th but there have been only a few serious candidates.
    - Busted down the pretext
    - 8/28/98
    - 9/2/00
    - 4/28/03, 5/3/03, 7/3/03, 7/5/03, 7/6/03, 7/9/03, 7/11/03, 7/12/03, 7/14/03
    - 9/28/04, 9/29/04, 10/1/04, 10/2/04
    - 9/11/05, 9/12/05, 9/13/05, 9/30/05, 10/1/05, 10/3/05
    - 5/12/06, 5/13/06, 5/27/06, 5/28/06, 5/30/06, 6/1/06, 6/3/06, 6/23/06, 7/22/06, 7/23/06, 12/2/06, 12/9/06
    - 8/2/07, 8/5/07
    - 6/19/08, 6/20/08, 6/22/08, 6/24/08, 6/25/08, 6/27/08, 6/28/08, 6/30/08, 7/1/08
    - 8/23/09, 8/24/09, 9/21/09, 9/22/09, 10/27/09, 10/28/09, 10/30/09, 10/31/09
    - 5/15/10, 5/17/10, 5/18/10, 5/20/10, 5/21/10, 10/23/10, 10/24/10
    - 9/11/11, 9/12/11
    - 10/18/13, 10/21/13, 10/22/13, 11/30/13, 12/4/13
  • fanch75fanch75 Posts: 3,734
    Solat13 wrote:
    There were several times the Government attacked the Mormons. In Missouri and then Illinois, the US was at war with the Mormons.

    Then in 1857, with the country divided over slavery among other things President Buchanan sent the largest assembly of federal troops at the time to Utah to remove Brigham Young from power and declared war on the Mormons in hope of uniting the country. This led to the Mormons slaughtering everyone over the age of 5 on a wagon train crossing Utah en route to California from Arkansas. This wagon train was the Fancher Party and the slaughter is known as the Mountain Meadows Massacre.

    I'm reading Under the Banner of Heaven by the same guy who wrote Into the Wild and it's a fascinating book about the history of the Mormon religion.

    Did you know that Captain Alexander Fancher is in my lineage?
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  • eyedclaareyedclaar Posts: 6,980
    fanch75 wrote:
    Did you know that Captain Alexander Fancher is in my lineage?

    I refuse to believe that anyone in the Fanch family would wind up having their ass kicked by Mormons...
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  • blackredyellowblackredyellow Posts: 5,889
    Human Tide wrote:
    Mitt Romney!

    http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/02/07/romney.campaign/index.html

    "In this time of war, I simply cannot let my campaign be a part of aiding a surrender to terror."

    This quote is one for the ages. One day we'll all tell our grandchildren how Mitt Romney saved the United States by ending his presidential campaign.

    Months later, that is still a hilarious quote...
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  • fanch75fanch75 Posts: 3,734
    eyedclaar wrote:
    I refuse to believe that anyone in the Fanch family would wind up having their ass kicked by Mormons...

    Well, there were shitloads of them.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Meadows_Massacre

    See if this hadn't happened, there would be fanch74, fanch76, fanch187, fanch10034, etc etc, posting on the board about Natty Light and other really cool stuff. Imagine how cool that would have been. Everyone should be enraged at the Mormon Church over this.
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  • slightofjeffslightofjeff Posts: 7,762
    I agree this is silly, but I understand (sort of) what he was getting at.

    Remember when Hillary refused to get out of the Dem race, even though she was getting pounded like a crack whore at John Holmes' bachelor party?

    There was all this hand-wringing from the Dems on how, by staying in and beating up on Obama and airing all his dirty laundry, she was going to end up handing the general election to the Republicans. Surely you all remember this.

    What the Mittster is saying here is that he was dropping out of the Republican race to avoid having the same thing happen to McCain. Remember -- this was also at the time when both Dems were both wedded to the concept of an immediate troop withdrawal from Iraq, regardless of the situation on the ground there (or "surrender" depending on your point of view).

    So all Mitt is saying is that he was getting out, lest he aid and abet the Dems from winning the White House. He just chose to offer one more dig at the other side of the aisle while he was doing it.
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  • melodiousmelodious Posts: 1,719
    Human Tide wrote:
    Mitt Romney!



    This quote is one for the ages. One day we'll all tell our grandchildren how Mitt Romney saved the United States by ending his presidential campaign.
    who???
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  • godpt3godpt3 Posts: 1,020
    "A cult is a religion with no political power."
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  • Human TideHuman Tide Posts: 328
    melodious wrote:
    who???

    Nicely done! :)
  • RolandTD20KdrummerRolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    Romney's trying to collect more life marbles so he can zoom off to the planet Xenon and become his very own god of his very own planet.

    Yeah Mitt!

    live that dream baby...
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