Bye-bye, ambulance chaser. There’s always 2012:
Democrat John Edwards bowed out of the race for the Democratic presidential nomination on Wednesday, saying it was time to step aside “so that history can blaze its path” in a campaign now left to Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama.
“With our convictions and a little backbone we will take back the White House in November,” said Edwards, ending his second campaign in the same hurricane-ravaged city where he began it more than a year ago.
Edwards said Clinton and Obama had both pledged that “they will make ending poverty central to their campaign for the presidency.”
By taxing the living shit out of anyone with more than two nickels to rub together. What of the Republicans?
Rudy Giuliani was always a long-shot for the Republican presidential nomination, a brash New Yorker who backed gun control, abortion and gay rights in a party dominated by conservatives. The only surprise was that he lasted as long as he did as the national front-runner.
The former New York mayor planned to exit the GOP race Wednesday and endorse rival and friend John McCain. Giuliani’s unconventional strategy of largely bypassing the early voting states and focusing on more populous, delegate-rich states produced just one delegate, a bunch of sixth-place finishes and made him the odd man out.
His best showing was Florida, where he had staked his candidacy. He finished a distant third.
Somehow, I don’t think Rudy gave much of a damn one way or the other. I may just write in Fred Thompson come November.
I believe Edwards was just running for VP right from the beginning. With the amount of delegates he has, he can now play kingmaker to either Billary or Obama. He’s just waiting for the right offer to come in.
I’m almost happy Giuliani dropped out of the race. His campaign strategy for both the Senate and the Presidency was abysmal. I can’t imagine that he would have done any better as president. He would probably make a good attorney general, but I think he’s playing his cards for VP with McCain at this point.
I’m hoping for the Obama vs. Romney presidential race to get away from the mudslinging and typical Washington politics.
What makes you so sure Romney’s going to get the nomination?
It’s more wishful thinking than anything.
McCain will probably get the Republican nomination. The press will continue to build him up until he gets the nod. At that point, they’ll turn around and declare him a shell-shocked, right-wing nut for his view on the Iraq war.
If fucking McCain gets the GD nomination, I’m either voting for Obama or not voting at all. That’s bullshit!
Shhhhh…
If McCain has his way, statements like that will be criminal.
Shhh…