Posted on 02/14/2008 2:47:40 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
ABC News' George Stephanopoulos and John Berman Report: Former Gov. Mitt Romney, R-Mass., today endorsed his former Republican rival Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. The endorsement took place this afternoon at Romney for President headquarters in Boston.
Romney asked his delegates to throw their support to McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.
"Even when the contest was close and our disagreements were debated, the caliber of the man was apparent," Romney said, standing with McCain for the announcement at his now-defunct campaign's headquarters in Boston. "As a party, we come together."
Accepting Romney's endorsement, McCain said despite a "hard campaign" now "we move forward together for the good of our party and the nation."
Once bitter rivals locked in an acrimonious Republican nomination fight, Romney abandoned his 2008 bid following a poor showing in the Super Tuesday contests this month. Romney had won the support of many in the conservative wing of the party, but failed to overtake McCain in either delegates or the number of state wins.
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.
Romney campaign manager Beth Myers notified McCain campaign manager Rick Davis in a telephone call today of Romney's decision, and they immediately made arrangements for an announcement in Boston this afternoon since McCain was campaigning in Rhode Island today.
After McCain's townhall meeting near Providence this afternoon, the campaign is flying to Boston for the endorsement.
Romney and McCain will meet today before they both announce the formal endorsement at a press conference.
Old news. If McCain had a brain, he’d pick Fred as his running mate and thus have a shot at wooing back at least some conservatives.
Given the money he spent for all those delegates, he really doesn't have much support at all.
Outside of his home states and states with a high Mormon population, he only won a handful of states no one else bothered competing in. Any candidate that spent the type of money he did would have walked away with some delegates in a race like the one this year.
Don’t over-react. It is imperative that Obama (sponsor of the $800 BILLION Global Poverty bill now in the senate) be kept out of power. Hitlery? Let her replace Stevens and Ginsburg? Uh-uh. Romney isn’t just being loyal to the party- he’s being realistic about the country’s short-term future. And he probably knows losing Iraq would be as bad as losing Vietnam was for America.
OK, the people I listed ALL fit the bill of “Armageddon of the GOP” claptrap you spouted. (Forgot to mention Lincoln)
My point is- we will make it through, and you may be suprised with the performance of a man like McCain.
Reagan is now touted as the ultimate Republican. He was quite the liberal in his hay-days though.
(Side note- the reason my posts “make no sense” is that it was an off-the cuff remark based in a historical context I assumed we would all be in at this point in time. I assumed wrong.)
Now again, I ask the question- What does a future hold with McCain as Potus and how does this fair versus a future filled with Obama?
You are wrong, it is over for Huckabee. Romney is pledging his delgates to McCain, McCain has therefore exceed the 1,191 delegates needed and effectively won the nomination.
Huck is the idiot that got us McCain, and now he’ll watch McCain take someone other than him as his VP running mate.
Doh
In your strange world of strange logic, pointing out the truth about McCain equals a vote for Obama. Notice that I never said anything about Obama; you are the one who brought him up. I only posted re McCain, whose name is included in the title of the thread.
And forget about being insulting; it proves you have nothing to say.
how does this fair versus
“Romney isn’t just being loyal to the party- he’s being realistic about the country’s short-term future. And he probably knows losing Iraq would be as bad as losing Vietnam was for America.”
Exactly. For me, McCain is a hard pill to swallow - but having loved ones sitting in the middle east as we speak, I will not leave their fate to Obama or Hillary. Since McCain IS our nominee - I can’t see how people could sit this out. The price is to high for our men and women doing the heavy lifting.
I repeat-
I might be able to appreciate your concern for his politics if it wasn’t obvious you were more concerned about the name of “Republican” than you were about the good of our Country.
If we want to point out only one of the big BIG differences between Reagan and McCain? McCain is a traitorous assho*e, Reagan was not.
McCain isn’t even good enough to shine Reagan’s shoes!
McCain is a joke, and he knows it.
It’s spelled quite correctly. I realize now I used the wrong “fare” but it was still correctly spelled.
If you’re going to correct me on grammar, at least make sure it’s over proper usage and not proper spelling first.
Burr5-
“Romney isn’t just being loyal to the party- he’s being realistic about the country’s short-term future. And he probably knows losing Iraq would be as bad as losing Vietnam was for America.”
To long to be a tagline, but exactly the right words.
“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.” MLK
We can live together and disagree, or do we all have to laud the cosmetic makeover of McCain now?
Indeed, he is a stateman. A man of integrity.
May God continually bless Mr. Romney and his family.
Does this mean you’ll vote for him?
“Short supply of grownups in FR lately.
Hope that improves...”
Me too.......
You get nowhere trying to put words in someone else’s mouth. And if you think McCain is concerned about “the good of the country,” you are wrong.
Yeah, I guess you’re right. He must only want to continue the war because it’s so popular. </sarc>
..”I’m 55 years old, McCain by far, the worst Republican nominee ever in my life time.”.......
Better than the competition
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