“He Was An Ineffective Candidate”

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by Bonney Kapp

When Mitt Romney dropped out of the race, he dropped a line in his speech that didn’t sit well with Senator Barack Obama. Addressing the Conservative Political Action Conference, Romney declared, “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.”

When the Democratic co-frontrunner was asked by a reporter to comment on Romney’s decision to leave the race on a flight from New Orleans to Omaha, Obama demurred. “I don’t really have much of a reaction,” he said, fielding another question.

But when asked to respond to Governor Romney’s line that the Democrats would, in essence, surrender to terror, Obama opened up. “That’s the kind of poorly thought out comment that lead him to drop out,” Obama said. “It’s a classic attempt to appeal to people’s fears that will not work in this campaign. I think that’s part of the reason he was such an ineffective candidate.”

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