Tuesday, September 01, 2009
SO WHY EXACTLY DID HE DROP OUT?
Politico has the scoop:
Romney was considering last February whether to stay and fight, Issenberg writes:Eventually spokesman Madden’s BlackBerry buzzed with a draft from Romney. Staying in the race, he had concluded, would only weaken McCain’s prospects against Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton. “In this time of war, I simply cannot let my campaign be a part of aiding a surrender to terror,” Romney had written.