Flip Flopney Stops the Bleeding..

   of his bank account!

   So much for the Dean-esque (minus the howl!) claim that "we're going across the country and we're going to take back Washington!"

   I suspect, the solid businessman that he is (despite what I might think about his track record as a politician), took a good, hard look at his finances and realized he was pissing away an awful lot of good money on a failed attempt to cut in line. John McCain is clearly next-in-line for the Republicans. He sat back and took the abuse from Dubya in the 2000 campaign and played the good soldier, knowing that he was up next in 2004 or 2008. Somehow, incredibly, due to a combination of insecurity by voters and Kerry's gaffes, Dubya managed to defy all logic and get re-elected, pushing poor McCain back another 4 years.

   But now his time has come.

   Ever the slick politician he appeared to be at every turn in the campaign, Mitt Romney exited the race without appearing to lose any face whatsoever. Instead of acknowledging that his message did not resonate with nearly as many voters as did McCain's, he instead went out with a FUMP-worthy, pure anti-Democratic blast:

      "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 Obama would win," he said during a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference. "And in this time of war, I simply cannot let my campaign, be a part of aiding a surrender to terror."

   Gotta love a drama queen and doomsday prophet named after a baseball glove.

   We'll miss you, Mitt. But we'll be excited to see you in 2012, clamoring about how you epitomize whatever it is perceived voters hunger for most at the time.