surrender

the_orf · Post by **the_orf** » February 7th, 2008, 11:52 am

Romney's reasoning behind his withdrawl is sure to fire up somebody...

"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 (Barack) 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 planned to say in a speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference.

Evidently those who vote for Clinton or Obama are also voting to 'surrender to terror.' Take that, you fraidy-cats who want terror to rule your lives!

slappywhite · Post by **slappywhite** » February 7th, 2008, 12:30 pm

He also said he didn't believe people who make under a certain sum of money should be excluded from paying income tax... I think he was going out on a "Hey everybody look! I'm still a kook!" at the kook convention.

mpbrockman · Post by **mpbrockman** » February 7th, 2008, 5:57 pm

Piff. He doesn't give a rats a** about McCain's campaign. He's only 60 and is thinking about his political future. Playing the good soldier now will engender a lot of party goodwill for him in '12 or '16.

I almost used the phrase "falling on his spear now" but that seemed too Clintonian.

The "surrender to terror" line is a fallacious and patently offensive straw man argument. I'm disappointed to see that Romney fails to see (or willfully ignores) that a change in tactics is not surrender. I have to assume he thinks we're dumb enough to buy it. Sadly, it seems that many of us are.

What an asshat.