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 told
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 told the Conservative
Political Action Conference in Washington.
The new head of the Human Rights Campaign starts his job on April 11 and vows to hit the road in order to reintroduce the countrys largest gay rights group to voters across the United States
Don R. Bramer, who served in the George H.W. Bush administration, has been named interim deputy executive director of the group representing gay Republicans.
Patrick Guerriero
has increased the Log Cabin Republicans' membership
and budget--as well as its standing among
liberal national gay rights groups. Of course, that
means fewer invites to White House parties.
"The flying of these flags in front of a Catholic school sends a mixed, confusing, and scandalous message to the public," Bishop Robert McManus said in a decree.
