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So John McCain will be endorsing Mitt Romney in New Hampshire. It is the logical circling of the wagons around the shaky frontrunner Republican leaders hope will be the nominee. But it seems to me that Romney doesn’t need much help among the voters who would be impressed by a McCain endorsement — I think he has a surprising number of McCain 2008 voters already — while the endorsement reminds disaffected conservatives of what happened the last time they ignored their concerns about a Republican’s conservatism.
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Al Adab| 1.4.12 @ 1:32PM
Oh goody, New Hampshire. Of course the liberal republicans will win there. That state will not deliever even its paltry electoral votes to the GOP so who cares about their choice for candidate? FLA, VA, SC, Ohio are the ones that matter.
Interested Conservative| 1.4.12 @ 1:35PM
This is not a bug, it's a feature.
SC and Fla. will determine who the 2 conservatives are, and March will determine the nominee.
Interested Conservative| 1.4.12 @ 1:36PM
PS - and this is 2012, not a 2008 rerun.
Lesser Weevil| 1.4.12 @ 1:42PM
Let us pray.
RJ| 1.4.12 @ 1:53PM
Yes, the McCain endorsement and Bush 41's quasi-endorsement sounds like, "You can count on old Mitt, he will sell you out just like we did."
Derek Leaberry| 1.4.12 @ 2:00PM
Is Romney stupid enough to think a McCain endorsement helps him politically? The McCain endorsement along with Romney's negligence in addressing conservative resistance to his candidacy, it is easy to get the idea that Romney has an obtuse manner about him. Warning- he will not be a good president and the Republican Party will rue the day he is head of the party.
aware| 1.4.12 @ 2:04PM
Yes but I bet he's the nominee. If you were the stupid party who would you pick if not Romney?
Al Adab| 1.4.12 @ 2:27PM
Todays WSJ, Romney refuses to rule out VAT. This is what we need?
SpiralArchitect| 1.5.12 @ 5:55PM
Maybe the Mitt super pac can put up an an with him wearing the McCain endorsement around his neck like an albatross.
crazy| 1.4.12 @ 2:18PM
How else was McCain gonna get on TV in 2012?
beebop2| 1.4.12 @ 5:57PM
Would someone PLEASE get his irritating and irrelevant daughter off television? She is an embarrassment to my sex.
smartalek| 1.4.12 @ 6:47PM
Gee, I dunno...
Maybe wait for next Sunday?
And the Sunday after that?
SCPOret| 1.4.12 @ 2:44PM
One RINO endorses another. What did you expect?
Margie| 1.4.12 @ 5:51PM
Exactly. No surprise there.
LarryK| 1.4.12 @ 2:56PM
We need to go RINO hunting.
Where is Elmer Fudd when you need him?
john caron| 1.5.12 @ 8:31AM
Running for the republican nomination!
bill| 1.4.12 @ 3:01PM
McCain endorsed Romney. Then Romney will win the GOP nod and lose to Obama badly. Side-effects!
Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 1.4.12 @ 3:02PM
It's a non event. Actually it's McCain endorsing himself in the belief that somehow he still counts.
JmsA| 1.4.12 @ 3:09PM
Way to go: The RINO who could not beat Odumbo endorses the RINO who could not beat him.
teflon93| 1.4.12 @ 3:14PM
There is a reason why the RINOs are lining up to endorse Little Lord MittleRoy while conservatives are staying away in droves: Mittens isn't a conservative.
When will we learn not to trust the Ruling Class when it comes to picking candidates?
somnolence| 1.4.12 @ 3:44PM
The continued visage of Obama potentially for four more years IS merely enough to win on for Romney, Santorum, Gingrich, or whoever the nominee is. I guess I'm much more confident than many on this page. This is 2012, three years under Obama, not a repeat of 2008, and triple the debt. Romney prevails---It is academic to me.
somnolence| 1.4.12 @ 4:13PM
Newt, I don't think that YOU will be the nominee, and like Romney, you are NO conservative. I don't wish to compile the long list which proves my point. And here you are this afternoon, continuing to pout like a little boy, spouting sour grapes on Sean Hannity's radio show. Take Callista and your toys and go to the corner. BTW Romney will fire missiles back at you if need be. Man, you are so desperate.
Miroslav Satan| 1.4.12 @ 4:38PM
Camera to McCain- you're still ugly. And a backstabbing moderate to boot.
RP2012| 1.4.12 @ 8:33PM
LOL! Is McSame relevant anymore? If he wanted to endorse Mitt he should have done so before the Iowa caucus when Mitt needed it most. Mitt is way ahead in NH, he doesn't need any endorsement. Of course now if Mitt wins convincingly, McSame can say it's because of his endorsement.
J.C.Eaton| 1.4.12 @ 9:23PM
McCain is simply a hopeless schmuck.
somnolence| 1.4.12 @ 9:59PM
Is Meghan McCain going to be in a Cialis commercial anytime soon? She deserves to be, as she is just as annoying.
john caron| 1.5.12 @ 8:33AM
She's its antidote.
WL| 1.4.12 @ 11:15PM
Folks....I have always been in the "we need to support anybody against Obama" camp.....
But the way our Party Leadership/Establishment/power Structure (or whatever you call it) is acting....
I am sincerely starting to wonder if the absolute disaster of a split is the only outside hope we have....
Cause I ain't seeing much success with pulling this Republican party to right....
It just ain't happening.
RJ| 1.5.12 @ 1:41AM
I understand the discouragement, but I think it is easier to "take over" the GOP than start from scratch with a new party. Reagan did it and to some extent, Newt did it in 1994. We can do it again, but I wish as much as you do that we had better candidates to lead the charge. I was hoping Perry would do much better. Then Newt looked good but fell into his old discipline problems. Perhaps, it really falls on each and everyone of us who believe in individual freedom and opportunity to fight the battle without a dynamic candidate.
Mike Rogers | 1.5.12 @ 7:37AM
We backed McCain last time, after we ran out of conservative options. As always, the prior losers of the GOP are coalescing to promote the "next in line" loser - last week, it was Dole, a supreme irony, because an endorsement by Bob Dole has been derided by Romney as “Probably the last person I would have wanted to write a letter for me.” (After Dole endorsed McCain last cycle.)
In fact, Mittens went further in 2008 and said “I think there are a lot of folks that tend to think that maybe John McCain’s race is a bit like Bob Dole’s race; that it’s the guy who’s the next in line, he’s the inevitable choice, we’ll give it to him – and that it won’t work”.
Folks, it doesn’t get any better than this: Short of a flashing neon sign hovering over Romney’s head screaming “Establishment Man”, what better sign could we ask for [than a Dole endorsement] that this man should NOT be our nominee?
Furthermore, the ABC piece on the Dole endorsement noted that “Romney is now seen as that ‘next in line’ candidate”, and now, the cycle is complete as McCain endorses Romney!
PattyMor| 1.5.12 @ 11:47AM
I would think that a McLame endorsement, would be the kiss of death. But, we already knew that Romney wasn't conservative because of his past positions and the establishment's nod.
The remaining, I'm not Romney's all have background "defects". The trick is to winnow down the field, so we can coalesce around
one candidate and stop spreading our votes to the wind.
Perry: Gave illegal alien children instate tuition. He also has some bothersome alliances with Muslims in Texas and his questionable croney capitalism business fund and Gardasil mandate.
Gingrich: Thrown out by his own party. Somewhat irascable and prone to running off at the mouth and pontificating. Did some amazing things as Speaker: balanced the budget and welfare reform.
Rick Santorum: Lost his Senatorial election by 20 points. Backed NCLB and prescription drug benefit. Backed 'Snarlin Arlen over Toomey.
Ron Paul - dangerous views on foreign policy. I just can't support him. And he has never articulated a plan to get CONGRESS to eliminate programs and department.
Who can go the distance and provide us with the best chance at defeating Obummer and implementing policy changes? I'm still willing to place my money on Gingrich. The establishment doesn't want him (good thing) and he accomplished some conservative things and got Bill Clinton to sign them.