Mitt Romney Endorses John McCain

Mitt Romney, former rival for the Republican nomination, has announced today that he will endorse Arizona senator John McCain. Romney dropped out last week when it became obvious that it would be nearly impossible to beat McCain. Romney will making the official endorsement tonight, and he will be releasing his 280 delegates and asking them to vote for John McCain.

Rumors are that Romney decided to endorse McCain so that the Republican party will be united, while the Democrats still battle for the nomination. It is expected that John McCain will fly to Boston tonight to accept the endorsement. John McCain currently has 843 of the 1,191 delegates he needs to secure the Republican nomination. If all of Romney's 280 delegates switch to McCain it will give him 1,123 only 68 short of the finish line.

So why did Romney choose to support McCain rather then stick with the more similar minded social conservative Mike Huckabee? All we can do for now is speculate. Romney did mention uniting the Republicans and that could be a good idea because then while the democrats are still trying to find a nomination, the Republican party can start their national campaign. It has also been said that Romney plans on trying to run again in 2012, and his support of John McCain now will show everyone his commitment to the Republican party.

Of course, his support of McCain could always be the obvious: Romney trying to get the vice presidential nomination from McCain. With McCain being so old the Vice President could play a crucial role in this election, the voters will probably be looking closer at the vice president to make sure they would feel comfortable with him taking over is anything happened.

I am not currently a supporter of either John McCain or Mitt Romney, but I have several friends that were supporting Romney. I don't think Romney's endorsement of McCain is going to make much difference to the voters. Most of the people that I know that were Romney supporters don't like John McCain, they have decided to support Barack Obama instead.

It seems to me that Romney's and McCain's stances of issues are quite different. I think it might be a hard sell for Romney followers to just switch over to McCain. It will be interesting to see what happens because if this gets McCain the Republican nomination, then that will give the republicans a head start in the national campaign. It will also show to America that the Republicans can put their differences aside for the better of the Republican party, while the Democratic party continues to fight for the nomination.