Not necessarily. The race was not over before Romney tossed HIS delegates over to McCain. It's still not officially over. Romney is just jockeying for a position with the McCain administration. His delegate transfer is nothing more or less than a bribe.
Reagan did the same for Ford when he lost to him in ‘76.
Reagan didn't do it because he wanted a position with the Ford Administration. He did it because the election was over. Over. Done. Finished.
BTW why are you holding Romney's water? He's out of the picture. The only remaining Candidate with a solid 100% Pro-Family, Pro-Gun, Pro-Domestic, Anti-IRS platform is NOT John McCain. If you want to influence the Republican platform and the vice presidential pick, then I'd be crawling across a mile of broken glass to cast a vote for Huckabee.
FWIW I cast my vote for Romney on Super-Tuesday. Since he squandered all his candidates on McCain, I wish I could take it back.
“Reagan didn’t do it because he wanted a position with the Ford Administration. He did it because the election was over. Over. Done. Finished.”
The same reason Romney did. This election was over, done, finished on Super Tuesday; so he did what he had to do in order to run again, just as Reagan did.
BTW, I’m not carrying Romney’s water for him. I still won’t vote for McCain in Nov. anyway no matter who endorses him (unless McCain picks a very strong conservative as VP and then I might).
But all the Romney bashing on FR is irksome because I lived in Massachusetts and know that most of the allegations are untrue and that he would have made a good President, particularly when it comes to the economy.