Here's My Personal Story on the Importance of the Crist Endorsement..
After playing cat and mouse with nearly all of the GOP Presidential field, Florida Governor Charlie Crist has put his weight behind John McCain. Why now, after staying out of it for so long? My guess is that Crist was goin gto stay out, but Mitt Romney has closed in so close to McCain that Crist felt he needed to do it to avoid a Romney victory. Will it work? We'll find out Tuesday.
With all 57 delegates going in a winner take all Tuesday, Florida is the most important Primary yet - sorry South Carolina, but it is. I'm not sure if Crist has anything against Romney, but he does seem less conservative than other leaders. McCain is leading, and Crist wanted to push whichever one would win.
Just how coveted was Crist's endorsement? Since the SC Primary is now over, I can spill the poop of what I knew and told no one. When I took my famous trip with Rudy Giuliani in July, one of the calls he made in the car was to Crist to ask for his endorsement. Crist was nice, but non-committal. You could tell even then that the Crist nod was of major importance to Team Rudy. Would he has gotten it if he were leading? Maybe. If he were just leading McCain? I don't know....
That's the poop. Nothing earth shattering, but I did get to hear it first hand. Pretty cool.....
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3 comments:
If he wanted a liberal Republican to support, he could have turned back the clock four years and endorsed that version of Mitt Romney.
Mitt gets the Lynn Cheney endorsement. It doesn't guarantee the Log Cabin vote, but, weighing demographics as commontatoes do, it may see the MSM assumption that it does. At least, from second amendment chatter, I don't see the Pink Pistols backing McCain or Huckabee, though Huck is a bit closer to them on RTKBA (even closer than Mitt).
rudys first and maybe last stand. he had it and lost it.
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