Posted on 02/14/2008 1:02:27 PM PST by jdm
Mitt Romney will endorse John McCain in a press conference at Romney's Boston headquarters, according to an ABC report. He will release his delegates and ask them to support McCain at the convention. That would put McCain within reach of the nomination now, and almost certainly clinch it for him in March:
Former Gov. Mitt Romney, R-Mass., is planning on endorsing his former Republican rival Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.
A source familiar with the decision said the endorsement will take place this afternoon at Romney for President Headquarters in Boston at 3:30pmET.
Romney will ask his delegates to support Senator McCain. The former governor made his decision to endorse today in the interest of helping McCain gain the 1,191 delegates he needs to secure the party nomination and unite the party for the general election against the Democrats in November.
Yesterday, I asked Senator McCain when he and Romney would meet. He replied that their staffs had contact already and that he wanted to meet Mitt when the appropriate time arrived. That apparently is today, as the report also notes that the two former competitors would have a tete-a-tete before the press conference.
Romney had strongly hinted at this when he withdrew from the race a week ago. He told the CPAC conference that he wanted a united Republican Party behind the nominee, specifying McCain as the man who could win the war on terror. Out of respect for Mike Huckabee, he stopped short of an endorsement, perhaps expecting Huckabee to follow suit. After Huckabee's insistence on continuing the campaign, it appears that Romney wants to finish what he started at CPAC.
It's good news for McCain. The people who wanted to rally around Romney as the alternative to McCain may feel more than a little betrayed, however. After the speech, there was a little rumbling about Mitt's decision to clear the way for McCain, especially after Laura Ingraham gave him such a rousing introduction. Those will be few, though, especially if Romney winds up working with McCain on his general-election campaign as a voice for conservative policies.
It will help the GOP heal its fractures after a bruising but fortunately short primary campaign. After this, McCain and the Republicans can focus on the ultimate task ahead.
Giving the Demoncrats control of another branch of government?
That was a dang expensive lesson to learn. $40 million to find out that while you’re great at venture capitalism and Olympic turnarounds, you’re not the most natural politician.
Ouch.
I mean, I ran for mayor once and lost—big time—but I think I spent $150 on yard signs.
I mean, I ran for mayor once and lost—big time—but I think I spent $150 on yard signs.
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Maybe $1,500 would have done the trick!
Nah. People just didn’t like me.
At least I figured it out before I blew 40 BIG ones.
Let’s not look back cause that’s history.
Whether we like it or not, McCain is by far a better solution than Obama or Hillary.
I’m not a McCain fan, he was second to last on my list, but I WILL VOTE FOR MCCAIN!
Well, I like you . . . maybe web based campaigning is your forte.
Well, what does Ms. Ingrham have to say now, since “Conservative’s Conservative” has endorse Mac!!!
Hope she and Ms. Coulter do not slit their writs. LOL!
She won’t care. She’s in love with the Huckster.
I never got talk radio’s sudden fixation on Romney given his record. It was as if they all made a decision in unison after Thompson dropped, a big group think thing. I guess $50 or $60 million in spending (the $40 million figure for Romney was a while back, last time they had to report) can buy you a lot of contacts and e-mails and so forth to the “pundits.”
I am in complete agreement with this move. Romney has been a class act all along. He did some stupid things along the way (not many), but the right thing is to support McCain. The war on terror is more important than anything else for this country. And McCain is arguably the best out there to fight it.
Mitt has class, probably more than me. If he stayed in he would have had my vote.
Steve Forbes did it too. As I recall he spent $27 mil.
His reward was getting his health care program made into law but his tax reform is still not accomplished.
“Hope she and Ms. Coulter do not slit their writs. LOL!”
Ingraham probably should have left her mouth shut in terms of endorsements, but I’m not sure this Romney endorsement is funny...it’s actually pretty sad that one after another, so-called conservatives and Republicans are lining up to support this open borders global warming truther.
sad
He will close Gitmo and give terrorists tax paid ACLU lawyers.
He has announced to the world that there is a line he will not cross in interrogations, to protect American lives, FGS.
He has agitated with the Dims on Iraq for years, even saying Kerry would make a good CIC, with McCain as VP.
Will no one stand up to be McCain’s maverick?
Romney was always the “King Raph” successor. (everyone else was gone)
I give him credit for standing by his party united words.
I also give him credit for now totally neutering huckabee not just in this election but for 2012.
So, your great conservative hero endorses Senator Moderate. Sure fits his career.
And appointments of supreme court and federal judges
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