Romney Refuses to Tap Out

I'm confused, did Mitt “Mittens” Romney quit the race for the Republican Presidential nomination today? I mean, it sure did seem like it. The media acted like it. His wife was certainly frowning as if that was what was going down. However, there's one thing that's keeping me from saying we've seen the last of Mitt Romney: he didn't say so.

Romney said the following, "I feel I have to now stand aside, for our party and for our country.” His people however are calling his campaign “suspended.”

Suspended? What the hell does that mean? I didn't know, so I looked it up. Here's some insight thanks to our friends over at Dictionary.com

-to defer or postpone
-to cause to cease or bring to a stop or stay, usually for a time
-to cause to cease for a time from operation or effect, as a law, rule, privilege, service, or the like
-to debar, usually for a limited time, from the exercise of an office or function or the enjoyment of a privilege

Anyone see a recurring theme above? There's some permanence lacking in the word “suspend.”

What is Mittens planning to do, take a couple months off, then pop back in the picture in October? You're either in or you're out. What we need is a good, old fashioned “I Quit” match to settle the race for President.

Now it's left to John McCain to unify the party. Apparently though, the far right of the party wants nothing to do with him. For some reason ultra conservatives don't believe that John McCain is an actual Republican. McCain has a long row to hoe, and maybe Mitt thinks he can lie in wait in the event that the base revolts. That, of course, remains to be seen.

Now the storyline will turn to the Obama-Hillary showdown. With any luck, that will come down to the convention. It would be great to see an old fashioned convention, where the delegates actually get together and vote on who the nominee will be, let it take a couple ballots. Imagine the most tense tribal counsel you've ever seen on Survivor, now multiply that by about a million, that's what a nominating convention would be like. Two will enter, only one will walk out alive.

Politics would be so much better if it were Wrestlemania.