Say It Ain't So, Mittens!

But you're such a good economic steward, as evidenced by your spending a million bucks or so per delegate! Tagg doesn't need a new house! Don't say the words!

John McCain effectively sealed the Republican presidential nomination on Thursday as chief rival Mitt Romney suspended his faltering presidential campaign. "I must now stand aside, for our party and our country," Romney prepared to tell conservatives.

"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 will say at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington.

I'm watching this CPAC speech right now, and it's the first time I've seen anyone worked up over Romney. It's like a cult over a nonentity like Larry "Bud" Melman, or something. He's actually about to say how he's more noble than Reagan was in '76. What a brave soldier, stepping aside when he has no mathematical chance of winning.

Listen to these punks yelling "No!" It's like an alternate universe.

...I hope Hugh Hewitt is under sedation.