[awake-n-angry]

Fred could use the boost and Rush could serve to unite the conservatives. Now that Duncan has bowed out Anne Coulter could jump in as well.

[rintense]

Ann, Laura and Michelle are Mittens.

[libbylu]

It won’t matter what Rush says, I don’t know why people don’t understand this after all these years. You either agree with or you don’t,or you might see something a little differently,but it wouldn’t matter if he had endorsed Fred from day one.

[Edward Watson]

Give it up man. Thompson is done. South Carolina was his Waterloo and he failed to capitalize.

Lookit, I’m a Romney fan but despite he’s leading the delegate count by a wide margin and has won three of the first six states; I don’t think he’s going to make it. It looks as if the momentum is with McCain. The MSM and certain “Republican talking heads” has decided to trivialize Romney and boost McCain and that is precisely what’s happening. It’s McCain’s to lose.

[squidly]

It’ll take a whole lot more than a Rush endorsement to salvage Fred’s sinking ship.

[madison10]

I thought Rush already endorsed Fred on Friday.

[Ol' Sparky]

Coulter has ALREADY endorsed the liberal, lying, flip-flopper Willard Romney, something that should harm her career.

[CASchack]

Fred is a dead man walking. He won’t stumble around much longer. He sees the situation and I believe he’ll step aside with dignity.

[skinkinthegrass]

Hey! RUSH!...don't do a "Tom Cruise" (South Park :)....and come out the closet...(WE know you support Fred.) :D

[advance_copy]

Thompson’s campaign is toast.

[tear gas]

Do you really want to keep quiet and watch McCain take the oath?

I am afraid it's even worse than that. I still suspect that Rush has been a closet Rudy lover all along.

If so:

Last chance to redeem yourself, Rush. Endorse Fred now!!

[Brilliant]

It’s beginning to look more and more like McCain is going to be the nominee. If he wins Fla., he’s the nominee.

Obviously, Rush does not want McCain, and will direct voters to the candidate who he thinks has the best chance of beating him, which is probably Romney. But he is not going to put his feet in cement, because it’s entirely possible that McCain will win.

I wonder how Rush would handle that. Possibly he would urge McCain to make conservative commitments... Try to get comfortable with the notion that McCain might pass as a conservative. It will be pretty hard, though, I think.

[Bosco]

Here's what's been going on at FR for the past couple months: it's overwhelmingly for Fred, but in the grand scale of things the voting public is overwhelmingly for everybody else.

And folks don't see it yet. It's group-think on this board and it's not matching reality.

More than a few posters have said "South Carolina will be Fred's breakout state." Well, he broke to third place.

Instead of the constant drum-beat of Fred, Fred, Fred on FR, it should have been the feet hitting the pavement in the real world. For gosh sake, it's 60-some percent saturation here on FR. You've won. You should have moved to the areas where it's 15% for Fred - which at this point appears to be a lot of places.

[Maelstorm]

Fred should call on some celebrity. He has a number of supporters he could call on. He also needs to better plan events by taking some notes from Huckabee.

[elizabetty]

Now that Duncan has bowed out Anne Coulter could jump in as well

Ann Coulter endorsed Romney.
She said, "My thinking was that Romney would be our nominee because he is manifestly the best candidate."

"At worst, Romney will turn out to be a moderate Republican -- a high-IQ, articulate, moral, wildly successful, moderate Republican."

[ConservativeDude]

I have to say that Fred’s supporters here are, what shall I say and still be polite...they are living in another dimension.

Fred deserves better than a bunch of deluded maniacs who can’t face reality. He’s a good man and a good conservative. But he’s a pathetically poor candidate who never had a chance.

His supporters here keep saying, just wait...He’s gonna surge in Iowa. He’s gonna surge in SC. Well, in the states that he surges, he runs a distant third. Without the surge, he is last or second to last, and often behind Ron Paul.

Face it, folks. Fred’s campaign isn’t dead, it never began.

That twitching of his corpose isn’t a sign of life. There is no surge. He’s finished.

And that’s ok. If conservatives hope to influence this nomination process, then we have only one choice. We have to unite NOW behind Romney. He’s not perfect, far from it.

But he’s more conservative and more electable than either Huckabee (who will be painted as a crazed Taliban preacher) or McCain (whose faults are too numerous to list).

I think Fred, being a good man and a good conserative, will move on. At least I hope so.

[Salvation]

Go, Fred.

[jnwest]

Rush says he doesn’t endorse during the Primaries. My question is: Why bother endorsing AFTER? Would anyone who watches Rush need to be told to vote for the Republican nominee and not the Democrat? I don’t understand the thinking. Will somebody please school me?

[GraniteStateConservative]

Why would Rush waste any political influence capital he has on a hopeless cause? Rush didn’t become the giant he is by endorsing losers.

[logician2u]

. . I am only asking him to take an active roll . .

Would Rush have to actively roll to the right or to the left to make you happy, a-n-a??

[lawnguy]

One advantage to not endorsing anyone is you are in no way tied to their failure.

Rush didn't get where he is by hitching his wagon to someone else.