Romney Clues...

Mitt Romney is pressing on.

That's the message his campaign sent to members of Romney's national finance committee in an e-mail today.

The committee had been scheduled to be briefed by Romney in person on a 1:30 pm ET telephone call.

Instead, national finance director Spencer Zwick e-mailed members of the campaign to postpone.

"Governor Romney, myself and other members of our senior team are meeting today to lay out the plans for the resources needed and finance events as we continue to look forward to Kansas and Washington, and then on to Virginia, Maryland and Washington DC."

Zwick wrote that Romney's speech at tomorrow's Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington will be "major."

Thank you so much for all of your support leading in to Super Tuesday. We may not have won every state we wanted, but Governor Romney did very well last night, winning Massachusetts, Utah, Minnesota, Alaska, Colorado, Montana and North Dakota. He has now received eleven gold medals, eleven silver medals and six bronzes. We could not have done this without your support, and we will need to count on that support as we move forward.

Comments

Marc-

Very good post on the decision-making process for Mitt. Of course, I am intrigued to see if they decide to soldier on (I have no idea whether he will or not...)

Posted by ElectionNightHQ.com (McCain site) Publisher | February 6, 2008 3:31 PM

Good lord, we're still on the Olympic metals metaphor?

Posted by JK | February 6, 2008 5:21 PM

Good lord, we're still on the Olympic metals metaphor?

Posted by JK | February 6, 2008 5:26 PM

There's no reason for Mitt to get out of the race until McCain goes over 1191 delegates. As soon as that happens....if it happens....he will bow out. He won 7 states last night by double digits. He lost close contests in most of the California congressional districts, as well as Missouri and Georgia....all of which hurt from the standpoint of delegate count. But as long as Mitt is having fun, I'm all for there being a conservative in the race....there certainly wouldn't be anything close to won if he left it.

Posted by Dave | February 6, 2008 5:43 PM

You never know. There could be another McCain implosion. Or a major senile moment. Or a major McCain health issue. Or Putin sells the full dossier of McCains POW interrogations the KGB got from the Vietnamese to the highest bidder.

The delegate count would be closer, but Rudy, America's Mayor, spent the 1st year of his candidacy fixing New York, NJ, and Connecticut as winner take all open primaries so they would be his delegate Bastion - then Rudy melted, endorse McCain as liberal enough for him, and McCain sucked up Rudy's treasure trove of donors and delegates.

Right now, there is little incentive for either Romney or Huckabee to quit the contest cold. Unless McCain dangles bait. Both guys have sunk in costs there is no reason to walk away from cold, and can easily afford to continue campaigning and solidify their positions as Leaders of the Party. Huckabee has the whole white version of Jesse Jackson's use of tax exempt Churches doing his campaign work and fundraising for "free". Even, like Jesse, tossing in a 20,000 dollar speech for Hucksters personal coffers now and then.
Romney has the big bucks of the BASE eager to do some 527 bashing of McCain, his own money, but also a fighting mad well-organized in 50 states fundraising team that can keep his organization afloat into the Convention and hopefully extract concessions from McCain in the issues of Amnesty, the growing economic and energy crisis - and not selecting judges like Souter, Ginsburg, and Breyer that Mccain voted for with enthusiasm as a Senator...
Romney also might wish that he finishes this 2008 campaign with the experience and lessons learned to do even better in 2012 if McCain doesn't manage to implode before Hillary! or Obama turn him into Bob Dole 2.0.

And both can hope that they can force McCain into another debate before Texas or Pennsylvania and again show McCain as a tempermental dimbulb.

Posted by chris ford | February 6, 2008 7:52 PM

I agree with comments that Romney NEEDS to stay in.....November is a long time away and who knows what could happen! Let us NOT GIVE it to McCain! He doesn't DESERVE it just because he's been in WA for 25 years doing his "maverick" stuff.

Those of us wanting Romney to stay in...ought to put some $$ where our mouth is!

Posted by Cd | February 6, 2008 10:01 PM

I agree.....Mitt NEEDS to stay in the race until IT IS OVER! He is the ONLY one with the INTELLECTUAL preparation to handle the tremendous challenges our country faces....without having to DEPEND ON OTHERS we don't even vote on! (ie, Karl Rove??)

McCain doesn't know enough about the economy and is too hot-headed to be a true leader in foreign policy. Huckabee has NOT prepared himself to deal with the national economy (ie. his building of a road from Maine to FL that would take YEARS when we need incentives NOW!) and his inability to give direct answers on foreign policy. I think his social conservatism is excellent, but the economy and foreign policy are PRETTY lacking.

McCain should EARN the nomination and not have it handed to him just because he's already well-bred in WA politics for the past 25 years. Maybe those that hope Romney stays in should put our dollars where our mouth is and send in a support contribution...soon...so he knows we're out here!

Posted by CK | February 6, 2008 10:12 PM

You don't need a whole lot of money to run the Youtube video of McCain saying on the first day of his presidency he'll shut down Gitmo and move the terrorists to Leavenworth Kansas. (Not too sure what he's saying after he makes this statement, as I think his meds were wearing off).

here's the link - straight from the "horses" mouth -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5Co7x3A12s

And maybe I'm wrong, but isn't it mathematically impossible for Huckabee to reach the magical number of delegates at this point? There are only 963 delegates left in this race and Huckabee has 176. In order to win the nomination, you need at least 1,191 delegates. If Huckabee wins EVERY SINGLE DELEGATE LEFT, he will end up with 1,139. So what's his deal, besides having a man-crush on McCain?

Posted by Donna L. | February 6, 2008 10:22 PM

After a rather bleak day and the thought of McCain as our GOP candidate, this has officially cheered me up. It’s great fun and the ryhme is infectious!!

Romney Rap:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1P0WBlVAIA

Also, I think Mitt should stay in the race. Tom Brady lost on Sunday and no one is calling for him to quit football!

Mitt should keep up the debate....his message is good and great.

Posted by sheryl | February 7, 2008 4:22 AM

sheryl: "After a rather bleak day and the thought of McCain as our GOP candidate, this has officially cheered me up."

My feelings exactly. There must be at least one REPUBLICAN in the race for REPUBLICAN nominee. If Romney stopped now we would have Republicrat McCain and his lap dog Pastor Huckabee (I hope Huck spends his 30 pcs of silver to buy a new suit for McCain).

Romney's polls look good in Texas. Texans have been under great stress from illegal aliens and McCain is not popular with many voters there. Go Mitt!

Posted by VSteven | February 7, 2008 9:01 AM

A comment above made me think that if every one who has voted for Romney or who plans to vote for Romney in their upcoming Primaries would send $5.00 to his campaign.....that would be an astounding financial amount. Do it! Do it Now!

Posted by Wendy | February 7, 2008 9:05 AM

Mitt Romney. Presidential candidate, or time-traveling android?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz2xwTNTUNU&feature=user

The Romneybot looks like what our future robot overlords imagine we humans want in a president after researching hours of "The West Wing."

Posted by Sammy | February 7, 2008 5:20 PM