Romney had his best political moment of the race while expiring. Republicans are expected to fall in line, and that's what Romney did. "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," he said to cries of "no" from some in the audience at the Conservative Political Action Conference. "And in this time of war, I simply cannot let my campaign be a part of aiding a surrender to terror."
His remarks, which would have made Joe McCarthy proud, touched all of the right's political buttons, in a way Romney rarely managed during the race. In addition to proving himself to be a stalwart Party man, willing to sacrifice his personal ambitions for the cause, Romney on his way out showed a singular focus on the crucial issue of national security issues. He helped frame the general election in terms of Republicans who understand the threat from Islamic terrorists and Democrats who don't. It's rumored that he is thinking about running in the future; if so, maybe today marked that beginning as much as this ending.
-John Dickerson, "Mitt Out Of Luck," Slate
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I'm from Massachusetts and I voted for Mitt as Governor and let me warn you. THE GUY'S A HACK. He's a handsome, rich, venture capitalist who talks like a Grade B actor and is about as sincere as the carpetbaggers who invaded the South after the Civil War. He's a switch hitter on any issue that has two sides. If he's running in Massachusetts, he's a social moderate. If he's playing to the South and the Heartland, he's a diehard Conservative. He badmouthed Massachusetts when he started came out of the closet as a candidate for President. Well, if Massachusetts is sooooo bad, why did he choose to live here. God knows, we didn't drag him here, shackle him to his Belmont home, next to the People's Republic of Cambridge, Mass. He came to become live here, become a resident here, pay taxes here, because HE LIKES TO LIVE IN MASSACHUSETTS. HE LIKES THE SERVICES MASSACHUSETTS OFFERS. He's full of ****. That's what he is.