Romney Breaks Protocol, Interrupts John McCain Concession Speech
January 16th, 2008
Last night as John McCain took to the stage to give his concession speech in South Carolina, he was interrupted, by the winner of the Michigan primary Mitt Romney. Television coverage broke from McCain to Romney breaking what is typical protocol on election night where the winner allows those who lost the chance to speak.
From the New York Times:
Some McCain aides were taken aback that their speech was pre-empted, and said that the McCain campaign manager, Rick Davis, had called the Romney campaign and told them that Mr. McCain was about to speak. “Perhaps it was an accident,’’ said a senior McCain adviser, “but if it wasn’t, it was classless.â€
The ill-will between the McCain and Romney camps was evident earlier in the night.
Before the race was called, Steve Schmidt, an adviser to the McCain campaign, told reporters gathered here that, “Mitt Romney has an amazing capacity that many of us hold in awe to be able to look anyone in the eye and tell them that the blue sky is red, that the yellow sun is pink, but at the end of the day, in a presidential contest, voters want someone who will tell them the truth.’’
Though everyone will claim it was a simple mix-up, which it probably was, one thing is for certain. A lot of bad blood is being spilled in this campaign and with the Republican race being hotly contested, things are only going to heat up.
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January 16th, 2008 at 11:14 am
I wouldn’t want to hear anything that comes out of Mccains mouth anyway. Mccain should go home. He has not stopped pork barrel spending after 25yrs so he is not likely to do it now &of course the jobs won’t come back to Michigan if Mccain is president he will be too busy giving them to illegals. Mccain, acutally needs to move to Mexico.
January 29th, 2008 at 11:20 pm
[…] In South Carolina Mitt Romney interrupted John McCain’s concession speech and tonight he did the same thing to Rudy Giuliani who was giving a past tense laden speech in Florida. I don’t doubt that the Romney camp wasn’t happy to hear rumors of a potential endorsement by Giuliani of McCain tomorrow and may have feared that it was going to take place tonight. With that said, the guy could have been a little more gracious and let Giuliani have a moment. Sphere: Related Content […]
February 16th, 2008 at 7:17 pm
“Mitt Romney has an amazing capacity that many of us hold in awe to be able to look anyone in the eye and tell them that the blue sky is red, that the yellow sun is pink, but at the end of the day, in a presidential contest, voters want someone who will tell them the truth.’’
EXACTLY - He’s a Mormon, born and raised. Their entire doctrine is presented the same way to convince all that they are one thing when they are actually another. The fact that others are finally seeing it in him means that he didn’t listen well enough at church. THANK GOD he’s out of the picture!!!