We love former Massachussetts governor Michael Dukakis....I mean Mitt Romney here at Politics, Culture and Other Wastes of Time. I now estimate that I have made more fun of him than all the other Republican presidential candidates combined, and that includes Fred Thompson.
And, I am ashamed to admit that we may have actually been even harder on him than any member of the infamous Bush-Cheney administration! (Yes, I agree.....how's that possible?).
So, to show our apologies to Mr. Romney who has assuredly campaigned very hard and recieved very little rest, we are going to congratulate him on winning...........Utah!
I know most of you think that a Mormon Republican candidate winning Utah is like Barack Obama winning over an Oprah Winfrey studio audience, but Romney really kicked butt in the Beehive State!
He captured 88 percent of the vote, an absolute coronation, in the Utah Republican Primary, where fringe candidate Cong. Ron Paul actually got more votes than Mike Huckabee! And, front-runner Sen. John McCain of Arizona finished a distant second in single-digits as well.
According to Bob Bernick Jr. of "The Desseret Morning-News" (a Salt Lake City newspaper), it was the largest victory in a major contest in Utah history as Romney won all 36 of Utah's convention delegates.
But, Romney, aka The National Review poster boy, did not fare well almost everywhere else as his rival McCain won in key states like California, Oklahoma, New York, Illinois and Missouri, which lead Democratic Party leader Howard Dean to say that McCain is now the Republican nominee in an e-mail to Democratic constituents.
Perhaps, Fox News should now hire Dean to join the booth on Election Night this November so he can 'project' a winner in Florida (for those of you in Nepal, I am refering to an infamous moment in broadcast history which occured the 2000 Presidential Election).
On the other side of the political spectra, the Democratic race appears to be a virtual dead heat according to "Washington Post" political blogger/cloumnist Chris Cillizza.
Utah Democrats, who perhaps feel like vegans in Omaha, chose Obama over Sen. Hillary Clinton by a 56-40 percent margin. Obama won 13 states in total.
Megan Riffe of Salt Lake City told Bernick that she was deligthed to see a high turnout for both Obama and Clinton supporters in a state which only votes for Democrats about as often as elephants mate (though LBJ somehow won the state in 1964).
Obama supporters in SLC partied at The Skybox Bar and Grille downtown, where apparently one can actually have a Budweiser.
But, Hillary had a good night as well as she won in Super Tuesday's California primary. She won a total of eight states, including Romney's Massachussetts despite Obama endorsements from John Kerry and Ted Kennedy. On the GOP side, Romney was able to win his home state but Donny Osmond was not by his side for his 'victory' speech in Boston last night.
This blog is supporting Clinton over Obama, mainly because of experience and because the junior Illinois senator was endorsed by the Armenian lobby (see earlier entry). And, (with respect to my Armenian friends), if your name was Mustafa, Omer or Ayshegul, I assure you_ you would understand.
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A major Armenian lobby group did endorse Obama, but another endorsed Clinton. In summary, you're screwed.
Well, in response to Vartan84, I think the Armenian lobby should have really endorsed a Republican. I respect Sen. John McCain personally, but the War in Iraq has caused problems for the Turkish economy and brought about a resurgence of Kurdish separatist terrorism. So, if one really hates Turkey, it is actually in their best interest to vote for pro-war Republicans.
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