If God is in heaven, this is the last we will hear of Willard "Mitt" Romney. His reasoning for "standing aside" sounds as disingenuous and strange as the rest of his ego-driven campaign. I listened to his quit speech until I could stand no more. The guy with the perpetual smile and perfect coif sounded defiant, intolerant, and unbelievably ignorant. Who knew this kind of bile was in him? Well, we did here in MA, where we watched him spend his time in office going after his personal enemies, getting apoplectic about gay marriage being legalized in the state, balancing the budget on the backs of those who could least afford it,and letting major companies and our brain trust leave the state in droves because they could no longer afford to live here. We watched his failed Senate run in 1994, his awful tenure as Governor where he was away more than he was here, and now this misbegotten campaign for President finally ends with a swipe at all things "liberal", as if he even knows what the word means. The irony here to me is that for all the baying on about the so-called "attack on American Culture", Romney is quite possibly the most amoral and spiritually bankrupt candidate in the GOP field. Lying through his dazzling smile, he has hopefully sated his thirst for power and will now ride off to whatever version of Mormon glory awaits him. The better for the rest of us.

Geraldine Ferraro on Hillary Clinton's campaign as an adviser.

I was intrigued at first and found myself wondering what she'd been doing these last 20 or so years. The fascination wore off quickly when it became perfectly clear to me why, of all the women you could put on a presidential ticket, she was the least appealing. Or is that most appalling? Even in those days when I was a Christian and thought Ronald Reagan was all that and nice home on the range, I sensed something off about her. I had no idea just how much until now, when the first legitimate candidate who happens to be black comes around, she serves up this patently bigoted diatribe, and is so completely obtuse she doesn't even see that she is a racist, and always has been. She's one of these people who will refer to black folks with lines like, "Aint I always been nice to you people?"

"After all I done for those people and THIS is how they treat me?" I can almost hear Archie Bunker's intonation.

We've all met people like this. You try to talk to them. Reason with them. Sometimes, in an attempt to be "open-minded" you try to figure out what their point of view might be. But none of it tracks. They just sit there all disgusted about how "those people" have all these "advantages" that they don't have, even as they're surrounded by all the trappings of middle-class or even upper middle-class life, and it never occurs to them that, "affirmative action" aside, black people work for what they want just like anyone else. All affirmative action did was attempt to guarantee something that our Founding Documents envisioned: equality in the eyes of the law and an a fair shot to achieve. The rest is up to you. It's a shame people like old Geraldine can't see that, and it's a bigger shame that someone as smart as Hillary Clinton couldn't see this bile-soaked old broad for what she is. For his part, I thought Barack Obama dismissed it with class. Sort of the verbal eye-roll most of us gave her. Okay, Geraldine. Off you go now.

Senile old biddy.