Posted on 03/04/2008 7:23:51 PM PST by RDTF
ABC News' John Berman and Jennifer Duck Report: Senator John McCain, R-Ariz., who clinched the Republican nomination with clean sweep of wins in Texas, Ohio, Rhode Island, and Vermont on Tuesday, will visit the White House on Wednesday.
There, according to sources close to the McCain, the Republican Senator will receive the endorsement of President George W. Bush.
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Wow. Way to stick your neck out, Mr. President.
You’d think he would come up with a better choice!
Might as well get the endorsement out of the way now, so that people forget about it by election day.
That Jorge is all abouts risks......
Thought this already happened in a interview.
Well, it’s what they do.
I guess we couln’t expect him to endorse Hitler or Hussein.
Must be strange for him to have to endorse the man who
has crossed him at every step of the way.
A Baker moderate endorsing a Baker moderate... Who’da thunk it?
Such leadership from Bush. Impressive. /s
Yep. Cause you know that McCain is enjoying every minute of this. He's been stewing since South Carolina 2000, and now, according to him, G.W. can lick his boots.
I just know it has crossed his mind.
He salivates at having the president get up on stage with
him and cowtow.
Well....politics/bedfellows. Gonna happen.
Wonder what kind of VP we will get...
It’s official. The Jennifer Duck Report has spoken.
*snicker*
I thought so, too. In the same interview where W said that McCain was a "true" "conservative".
This conservative is quite pleased that the President is going to stand with his party’s nominee.
I also sent money to McCain tonight. This country does not want to lose a war. I also thought McCain made an excellent point tonight about his opponents wanting to force companies to stay here in the US by raising their taxes.
I’m content tonight. I’m not only voting for McCain, I’m going to support him and do everything I can to get him elected. Those of you who wish to continue to complain about the perfect conservative you wanted elected should have been working harder from the onset.
McCain 2008.
His true personal feelings, either pro or con are not the issue for him, and shouldn't be for anyone else. Anyway, I doubt that he is really too terribly disappointed, or that this will upset him. He is a realist; this is the way it turned out, so he is going to deal with what needs to be done, and probably without harboring any emotional baggage. People try to turn everything into some emotional issue, and criticize based on "feelings." Bush, even when he has done things I have not agreed with, seems to be a man who looks at the whole picture, and does most things considering the duty of it, and not any picayune hurt feelings or past disagreements among his party members.
Its just a courtesy
Agreed. I have said before: The decision has been made. Time to move on and if we want to win the race we all need to get behind the wagon and push. We can’t sit it out on the sidelines because we don’t like the lead horse and let the whole team get stuck in the road.
Phock McCain...I’m sitting this one out.
It's rank stupidity to equate a President's waiting to endorse his party's nominee with a lack of leadership.
Then again, Free Republic is full of dunces.
A very sad night for true Conservatives everywhere.
Well said!
As regards the future and sovereignty of the United States of America, it’s been two plutocrats in a pod.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/plutocrat
Bush wanted to endorse either McAmnesty or Rudy along time ago.
Both of them agree 100% with GWB’s goals to grant Illegal Aliens amnesty
What has our nation, and our party come to that we have nominated such a left-leaning turd of a candidate like McCain to represent us?
Your go along to get along attitude adds one vote. When elections are as close as they have been, the party that goes along to get along is going to lose. There is no contest because we have no true representative and no passion. The electorate has changed and big government is in. But I do not see how Republicans can win with a candidate so many people distrust.
I’m sure the illegals are thrilled, but the republic is now closer to death.
It’s rank stupidity to equate a President’s waiting to endorse his party’s nominee with a lack of leadership.
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Has nothing to do with waiting. In this case, I am not the dunce.
This must come as a quite the setback for Obama, who was furiously courting the endorsement.
Not surprising that he’d wait until the nominee was chosen. I’ve never known for a sitting President, at least a Republican one, to make a choice of candidate during a contested primary. I’m sure he’ll campaign for McCain when he can. He wants Republicans to retain the White House, otherwise all his work will have been in vain, because Her Heinous or Obama would start trying to tear everything he’s done down, from the first day.
Don’t know if I’m in before the flaming, but I’m with you. Now, let the flames begin.
McCain 2008
Bumper sticker to be attached asap.
My son thanks you for deserting him during his service to our country.
they’ll come around. Too many here expect perfection and can’t imagine compromise.
As the head of the Republican Party it is NOT the President’s place to endorse a candidate before a nominee is selected.
YOu had plenty of representation. How many candidates did the republicans field? Plenty. Now, the contest is over. John McCain is our nominee. You can sit this one out and spend the next 4 years complaining. As for me, I’m getting to work.
McCain 2008.
If McCain had any sense he would stay as far away from Bush as possible. With an economic recession on, he should figure out a way to run against Bush.
I sure pray you are right. This country cannot afford four years of either of the Dim’s candidates as POTUS.
McCain was the PAIN IN BUSH’s butt for most of his presidency.
Maybe he can screw over McCain before this is all over.
McCain has insisted on always ACTING LIKE AN @SS.
Maybe his endorsement is the first step to do exactly that.
For me the most important thing is national security. The rest can be put on hold for now.
we just need to hope for a great running mate
I don’t know why many of you think that Bush and McCain still have an adversarial relationship. They don’t. They agree on amnesty, on the war, on free trade, on terrorism, on many issues. Bush wants McCain in to continue the central priorities of his own regime, which McCain will do. Bush is happy McCain is the candidate, not unhappy. He is willingly going to support McCain and campaign for him. You people who try to separate the two as if McCain is more of an ogre than Bush has been, are looking at them through the prism of your own desires, rather than the reality of their actual alliance and priorities.
You sent money to McCain tonight?
By the way, by what logic does it make sense to “force companies to stay here in the US by raising their taxes”?
That would encourage them to leave.
McCain is a man who has shown he has no problems causing grief when it could help liberals.
You make sure that your son knows that REAL Americans are going to make sure he doesn’t get a CIC who wants him to lose a war. And you give him a big THANK YOU for his marvelous service.
It’s time to get to work people.
McCain 2008
Exactly!!!
Thank you for your kind words. I’ll also contribute to McCain’s campaign.
um, that “forcing companies” line was in reference to the DEMOCRATS who want to do just that.
Follow now? The dims claim they can force companies to stay here in the US by raising their taxes.
And yes, I donated to McCain via his site tonight.
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