It’s official — Mitt Romney has suspended his presidential campaign and is endorsing John McCain even as I type this.
The word "suspended" is important, just as it was with John Edwards, because that lets him keep his convention delegates and gives him the ability to play a role at the convention.
Romney (seen here with his lovely wife, Ann, modeling traditional Mormon undergarments), has spent $1.16 million per delegate won in this election season, which was going to put him on a path to spend several BILLION dollars just trying to win the nomination. Of course, he wouldn’t be the first Republican to throw away billions of dollars on a futile effort, but the voters keep saying they want "change" (and not of the silver coin variety).
(That cost-per-delegate link points out that, by contrast, Mike Huckabee has won 20 delegates for every million dollars spent.)
At least now Mitt can stop pretending that he’s "the only REAL conservative" and can come back here to his lovely home in Belmont and go back to supporting gun control, abortion, and gay marriage like the rest of us pinko bastard Masshole lib’ruls….and Rudy Giuliani.
On the downside, now I suppose the Ron Paul supporters will be even more frothing at the mouth to get their guy some air time, since he is suddenly elevated into the "Top Three".
Mormon underwear is so chic.