“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. And in this time of war, I simply cannot let my campaign, be a part of aiding a surrender to terror,” Romney told the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington.
Has Huckabee expressed any reaction?
maybe this thread belongs in the pit… 
I feel bad that it didn’t work out for him.
He’s still 12 minutes slow.
he’s probably gloating…
Now I’m wondering how this will affect the Democratic nomination, since it frees up independents and crossover Republicans to vote in the Democratic race in those states that have open primaries.
(Does anyone know how many such states remain?)
Well, fuck you too Mitt. By rejecting you, Republicans have demonstrated that they are, at the very least, not complete morons.
And I had it way earlier. 
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=9451577&postcount=12
This is really a non-event. Romney’s ship was sunk in New Hampshire, if not Iowa. I didn’t expect Huckabee to do as well as he did on Tuesday, but Romney has already been playing out the string for a month. I’m not sure what the “true conservatives” who were backing him will do, though - they don’t seem to like either of their final choices. Huckabee usually did better among self-identified conservatives than McCain did, I think, but for a conservative I think both are flawed candidates.
I did get a laugh out of Romney’s dig at France, though. What the hell was that about? The President of France is a pro-U.S. rich conservative businessman - just like Romney, except popular and married to a famous model.
:dubious: A large percentage of them are still voting for Huckabee after all…
-XT
I’m not a “he”.
Especially since Romney was pressuring him to drop out before Super Tuesday, to give the conservatives a chance!
So the economic, make-the-tax-cuts-permanent conservative is out of the running. That leaves:
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McCain: “Maverick” conservative, foreign-policy hawk.
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Huckabee: Social-religious conservative, economic populist.
Interesting choice.
You are actually an “enigma” though, right? 
I expect Thompson is regretting his withdrawal.
3 months ago, if anyone had asserted that, from amongst Huckabee, McCain, Paul, Giuliani, Thompson, and Romney, it would be those last 3 that dropped out first, they would’ve been written off as nuts.
Electing a Democrat POTUS is a “surrender to terror?” What an asshole.
IMHO, this is not good for the Democrats. McCain’s spending/campaigning can take a light approach up until it becomes a national contest, while Clinton/Obama will be spending and slinging for a while–neither of which is good on a party level.
Well, he’s still a Pub and that’s been the party line for six years now. What else have they got, really?
OTOH, it keeps both of them in the public eye from now until the convention, while McCain recedes into a background noise.
Depends on how they run. If they focus more on each looking Presidential and dissing the Republicans, positive campaigns, then it is part of either of their general campaigns with extra publicity. If it gets ugly again then it is bad indeed.