A sad day for Mitt, America, our businesses and our people. Mitt Romney was THE candidate that had the experience successfully running and turning around multiple large organizations. He knew what it took to create jobs, create an environment conducive to investment and had the phenomenal track record to prove it. Instead of giving to people, he wanted to enable them. He saw the folly of government involvement and trusted the time-tested laws of economics would help America to become even greater that it already is. A sad, sad day.
Odds are against them being "his" delegates in primary states. The only "Huckabee delegate" that I met put his name on the ballot intending to support Fred Thompson. Huckabee's grassroots support within the party isn't non-existent (like McCain's), but it's not significant. Depending on party rules, the delegates are pledged to a candidate for the first one or two ballots (or until released), but if they can't get 1191 of them to agree, they get to vote however they like. Agreed. But many more of the delegates that he has pledged are actually supporters, so he has more pull in a brokered convention. Remember, in the last brokered convention of either party in 1968, Humprey won the Democratic nomination despite having got into the primary late and not winning a single state.
dude, running a business and running the country are two separate deals. please, he had a good track record on wall street, great. but its ridiculous to imply that it translates. running a business has nothing to do with sitting down and negotiating in israel. it has nothing to do with how to deal with a natural disaster and the displacement of citizens. it has nothing to do with how to read bunk ass intelligent reports that say there are weapons of mass destruction in iraq if it was such a simple transition, why don't more business people run for president. whoever you consider a good president, he probably never ran a business successful or not. one has nothing to do with the other. its apples and oranges
Adios, Mitt. You should have run as a moderate and partly on your heathcare plan you put through as governor. Trying to appeal to the Religious Right while being a Mormon was always a non-starter. May not be fair, but that's how it is. You should have gone after moderate Republicans, fiscal conservatives, and independents, and to hell with the Religious Right. They were never going to vote for you. Sorry, Mitt. Impeach Bush.
"I simply cannot let my campaign, be a part of aiding a surrender to terror" that is the dumbest thing I have ever read.
In hindsight, very true...I believe in Jesus, but this "religious right" might be just way too one issue... I believe in gun rights, but not absolutely to hinder what is best overall in my view.
Gotta agree here. Mitt was the Republican I kept thinking I should like based on his record but it seemed like everything he did on the campaign trail was to run away from that record. He and Rudy had such strange campaigns, hard to believe that McCain and Huckabee are the two strongest candidates left after where they where a year ago.
read " I simply cannot continue running this losing campaign, when most of it is coming out of my pocket" "I feel I must now stand aside, for our party and for our country." typical republiklan, putting party before country.
If nothing else, at least he has shown that he has good management skills, which are very much needed when "deal with a natural disaster and the displacement of citizens." Oh, and not only does he have experience in the private sector, he also was a governor . Maybe the successful business people are too busy making money? At least Mitt invested his own money in this, and look how much hate he got just on this bbs. It's just not worth it.
Thinking like yours is truly why we don't have candidates who encompass the traits needed to run a very large organization like the government. The government is very, very much like a large corporation. You are trying to create returns for your voters, which like shareholders, can vote you out of power if they don't feel you're doing a good job. You don't think that as a CEO you are having to negotiate with other countries??? Bain & Company has 38 offices in 25 countries around the freaking world. They do business with large governments and negotiate deals with other countries and other large companies. You don't think that a CEO has to deal with disasters of sorts? Imagine if you're the CEO of Johnson and Johnson during the tainted Tylenol crisis? Or that you're the CEO of Anderson Consulting during the Enron debacle? Imagine you were the CEO of Merck during the Vioxx announcements?? Those are crisis situations. They need a good organizational leader that is able to place well trained smart individuals around him/her to make sure these things get done and that there is a sense of accountability to the voters. I think someone thats run a large organization has better experience to be president than trial lawyers, politicians or lifelong government workers that have never had to be truly efficient. I believe your thought process in this matter is flat out wrong.
That might be true, hindsight is always 20/20. Its really too bad that the most capable candidate is now out, he would have been a great president.
I don't know - his decision making with this campaign was pretty atrocious. There's nothing he could have done about the Huckabee surge in Iowa, but beyond that, he managed to piss off all the people that might have been able to help him and made a ton of mistakes in the campaign. That's not a good sign of his management/leadership skills.
That's not leadership - that's pandering. That method of governing is exactly how both pork and polarization occur. That's how Romney goes from free market economics to "I will bring the auto industry back to Detroit". A campaign that is floundering is also a crisis situation, and he managed that about as badly as is possible.
But isn't one of his strengths supposed to be good decision making ability? He's been planning and strategizing for this race for well over a year now and he fundamentally misjudged his electorate and his strategy. How is that a good sign of what's to come if he were elected?
More like he got stuck between McCain and Huckabee, I am not sure how much people he pissed off or why. Rudy's terrible showing also hurt him. GWB won twice, would you consider him having better management skills?
Nobody knows if that was the right strategy, a lot times even the correct strategy can not get you a win. There are things outside of your control.
GWB has good management skills if he gets competent underlings. For his campaign, he did; for his government, he really didn't (or at least, he had a lot of strong underlings with their own agendas). I agree Romney had some bad luck with the race - but the decisions he made pissed off ALL of his opponents - McCain, Rudy, Thompson, and Huckabee all despised him. Every time there was a debate, that put him in an ugly position of being attacked by everyone. This was all caused by his relatively personal attacks on each of those candidates - Huckabee in Iowa, McCain in NH. That also resulted in the creation of an alliance between McCain and Huckabee, both of whom were targetted by Romney. These divisions & alliances didn't exist two months ago - they were a direct creation of very bad strategic decisions by Romney.
