Posted on 09/22/2011 9:44:58 PM PDT by South40
U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Vista, endorsed former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney for president on Thursday, a month after assailing his chief rival in a speech in San Diego.
Romney has garnered support from a growing number of congressional Republicans as he battles with Texas Gov. Rick Perry, front-runner for the party nomination according to most polls.
“As someone who shares my background in business, Congressman Issa understands that we need to make fundamental changes in Washington,” Romney said in a statement. “I am proud to have his support and look forward to working with him as I campaign in California and work to bring jobs back to the state and strengthen the American economy.”
Issa, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, has criticized the way the Lone Star State added hundreds of thousands more jobs than any other state — a phenomena dubbed the "Texas Miracle."
“Rick Perry’s entire claim to fame is that he kicked our ass. You guys can laugh. You can let it out,” Issa said at a downtown fundraiser last month. “But his entire claim to fame is all the jobs he created. He took almost all of them from us.”
Issa also jabbed Perry for being a career politician. On Thursday, he praised Romney as the right candidate to put the state and nation’s economy on the right track.
“The country would be well served to have someone who knows how the economy works and has worked in the private sector,” Issa said in the statement. “President Obama never worked in the real economy — we can’t afford to have another president who has spent his career outside the real economy.”
No freaking way!
The fix is in. Tonight’s “debate” was nothing more than a FoxNews campaign rally for Mittens Romney.
I’m still waiting for a GOP candidate to call Romney out for signing a bill that allowed state-funded abortions.
Oh dear.............................................
Unbelievable.
Who cares who this dude endorses? He is still has a %100 ACU rating and he is doing his best investigating this Regime. In the end it matters not.
Nah. They're all busy focusing on Gardasil.
I could see this coming a mile away. The GOP establishment wanted Romney the whole time.
They got some useful idiots (Bachmann, Santorum, and some others) from the right to trash Willard's only credible conservative rival -- who I have to admit did little to help himself in his defense.
Now we will see the establishment come out like clockwork, endorsing Romney, discussing the inevitability of his nomination, etc., and he will likely sail to the nomination.
The fix has been in for some time, and sadly some of us on here even played right into the trap.
And if Issa didn't think anyone cared he wouldn't have done it. Endorsements don't influence me but with many they do. This is just too weird.
He gets to become Attorney General.
California conservative isn’t what it used to be.
Good question.
In Issa's weird world, dry-land cotton farming isn't private sector, but the boardroom at Bain Capital is.
The RINO party better come up with someone else. I WILL NOT vote for Romney nor will any member of my family. My whole family does not like this guy and I don’t actually know of one person in the state of Alabama whom I have heard of that said they would vote for him. There probably are some, but I have not heard anyone say they will vote for him.
It did for Santorum. Some people will throw away a good policy maker because of a meaningless endorsement.
“What does Issa get in return for his endorsement?
Good question.”
Maybe a good President.
*sigh*
After 30+ years as a politically active Republican in the state of California I am proud to say that I am a ‘former Republican’ having registered as an Independent years ago. Watching Bush and the Republican led congress spend like democRATs did it for me.
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