Why is Mitt Romney endorsing John McCain?

Let me say that I have been a big supporter of Mitt Romney for years.  He's one of the best things going for conservative Republicans in a time when we desperately need something or someone to pull us through this Bush-led coup d'etat of the GOP.  Bush and his socialist wing of the party are slowly destroying any principles that the GOP has ever stood for.  McCain has more than aided the destruction - he's transparently befriended the mortal enemies of the party.

So while Romney has become more conservative with each passing year and is actively courting a slowly diminishing conservative bloc, why is he bothering to endorse a man with whom he has such obvious differences with?  I think a deal was made, and I have a theory as to what it might be.

Think back to Super Tuesday.  McCain swept the field and emerged as the clear front-runner.  Long-time GOPers and the entire Huckabee campaign staff were asking Romney to step aside for various reasons, but they were all pointing toward consolidated support for McCain.  But Romney refused and said he would remain in the race.  Only two days later, with the GOP delegate count remaining the same, Romney did a 180 and announced he was suspending his campaign.  Why the change of heart?

My best guess is that McCain and Romney made a deal.  McCain will be 72 years old next January when the next President takes office.  If McCain becomes our next president, after 4 years of failing health, anger management problems, and an awkward public personality, McCain will be a terrible candidate to run for re-election in 2012.  I think McCain and Romney made a deal that includes:

1. Romney must suspend his 2008 campaign for President
2. Romney will endorse McCain publicly
3. In 2012, McCain would not seek re-election
4. Romney will seek the 2012 GOP nomination with a crucial endorsement from President John McCain

Others are speculating that Romney may end up on the McCain ticket, but I doubt it.  McCain desperately needs to court Conservatives and the South, both of which Romney has not been a clear favorite.  More obvious VP candidates include Mike Huckabee, SC Senator Lindsey Graham, and Florida Governor Charlie Crist.  McCain's already received Graham and Crist endorsements, but I strongly believe that Lindsey Graham (an Air Force Colonel and Judge Advocate and an actual Iraq War Vet) has already made a deal with McCain to receive an appointment as U.S. Attorney General.  If Huckabee can work out a deal with McCain to leave the race, he will clearly be the favorite for VP.

Obama Volunteer Office Displays Che Flag

In an appalling pronouncement of Marxism rarely seen from a mainstream political party, an office of eager volunteers for Barack Obama's campaign in Houston, TX shamelessly hung a Cuban flag depicting Fidel Castro's notorious psychopathic executioner, Che Guevara.

Watch this video from MyFox Houston to see for yourself.

Undocumented Boomers Headed to Mexico!

 

An Open Letter To Mexican President Felipe Calderon

Dear President Calderon:

As you are no doubt aware, America the Great is quickly becoming America the Gray. The so-called "boomer" generation, comprised of approximately 40 million Americans, will soon reach retirement age.

As they age, America's boomers yearn for a less frantic pace---and a lifestyle that allows one to pause and smell the roses now and again.

In other words, boomers are looking for the "Good Life" which is supposed to accrue to those who work 45 years, pay ungodly amounts in taxes, raise a family, put children through college, and baby-sit the grandchildren.

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Bush Tells Musharraf, "Do as I say, not as I do."

In one of the most brazen displays of hypocrisy in Bush's tumultuous years as President and head of the U.S. military (aka, "Commander-in-Chief"), he phoned Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf today to tell him, "You can't be the president and the head of the military at the same time."

Wow.

70-Year-Old Marines: 1Costa Rican Punks: 0

This is a classic tale of a retired U.S. Marine on a simple vacation cruise to Costa Rica. While getting off a tour bus, his group is held up by three armed muggers. After a brief struggle, our hero kills one of the assailants with his bare hands and the other two flee. True to his roots, the old Marine seeks no glory or reward, remaining anonymous.

http://www.blackfive.net/main/2007/02/70_year_old_vet.html

Kids More Narcissistic Than Ever

Gee, we never saw this coming. When every public school in the country repeatedly re-enforces the "you are the most important person in the whole world" mantra, why should we be surprised when the kids start believing it?

Study: College students more narcissistic

It's yet another example of public schools circumventing the oldest tenets of Christianity with dire consequences. I can't decide whether I should revel in all those chickens coming home to roost or to shout in hopeless frustration with a completely broken system beholden to teachers' unions that are blatantly more concerned with wages, benefits, vacation days, and pensions than the success of the system. It is written in stone that the needs and agenda of a labor union are ALWAYS at odds with producing a quality product. Yet in this country we continue to let the fox guard, manage, feed, and maintain the henhouse. No one should be surprised when a few chickens go missing.

Imagine a World Without America

From 18DoughtyStreet.com:

Global Warming vs. Winter Weather

Fox News' Brit Hume, reports:

A House sub-committee hearing on climate change and the warming of the planet was called off today because of the snow and ice storm that hit Washingon. And in St. Louise a scheduled showing of Al Gore's "Inconvenient Truth", a movie on global warming, was cancelled by Maryville Unversity because of the harsh winter weather.

Hillary "sings" the National Anthem

Eek.

Hillary

If the politics thing doesn't work out, she definitely has a future as a "Before" model.

Silly String, The Trip Wire Detector

After some clever soldiers of the British SAS discovered that silly string can be sprayed into booby-trapped rooms to detect trip wires, Army Spc. Todd Shriver asked his mother, Marcelle Shriver, to send more to Iraq. Since then, she has been collecting cases of the stuff through St. Luke's Church in Stratford, NJ.

If you'd like to help, please send donations to:

St. Luke's Church
55 Warwick Rd.
Stratford, NJ 08084

For more information:

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-usgoo1208,0,1816870.story?coll=ny-leadnationalnews-headlines

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061206/ap_on_re_us...

http://www.incrediblegifts.com/sistpastpacr.html#troops

http://www.epartyunlimited.com/sillystring.html

More Terrorized Iraqi Children

I don't know how these Kirkuk, Iraq children can stand being terrorized "in the dead of night," according to Sen. John Kerry (D-MA). These pictures show them being "terrorized" by apparent unauthorized torture devices constructed from Humvee spare parts by Task Force 2-116 Armor.

Bin Laden Myths

Early news reports this morning are suggesting that the Saudi Secret Service and French Secret Service both believe that Osama bin Laden died in August in Pakistan of tyhpoid. Whether this story is true or not has yet to be determined, but this does remind us of other bin Laden rumours we've all heard over the past decade. Hugh Hewitt had Lawrence Wright, the author of The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, on this past week, and he had some interesting things to say about bin Laden and the history of al Qaeda. He mentioned two myths that the media has erroneously propagated:                        Bin Laden is 6'4". Wright says this is ridiculous, and bin Laden's true height is actually around 6'0"-6'1". Bin Laden has kidney failure and requires dialysis. Nobody's sure where this originated, but it is false.

More Violence and Murder from the Religion of Peace

Muslims around the world responded with violent protests and murder after the Pope's remarks last week implied that Islam encourages violence and murder. Hmm...

Matt Lauer Grills Bush on Post-9/11 Interrogation Techniques

This is an interesting video. Matt Lauer attempts to trap Bush and get him to admit to the authorization of illegal interrogation techniques, but Bush does a good job defending our methods. He tried to remind Lauer about how the safety of your family is more important than the intricacies of the legality of techniques used in prisons outside of the U.S., but like any good liberal, Lauer didn't like that answer. He preferred to hear about how we're sacrificing the safety of Americans to make sure that the bad guys are not put into situations where they feel like they are drowning.

Can you spot the terrorists?

"In this room are three terrorists..." claims The History Channel narrator from this documentary showing a room full of young Muslim men studying to be good jihadists in 1999.

My wife and I found this video side-splittingly hilarious. If you know why, then you are one of the few that understand what we're facing.

The numbers behind the Islamofascist terrorist attacks

TheReligionOfPeace.com is a great web site to shed the truth on the Islamofascist War. They are keeping tallies of all Islamofascist terrorist attacks around the world since 9/11. To date, there have been 5774 separate attacks in 54 countries that killed 28,981 and wounded another 56,154. I guarantee that you have never heard of the vast majority of these. After all, they would only make Bush look right and the democrats look very, very wrong.

Still think Bush's "unjust war" in the Middle East is the cause of the modern jihad? Most of those 54 countries have never had a single troop in Iraq or Afghanistan and have not aided the U.S. military's interests in the region.

Flipsyde: Happy Birthday

I don't normally promote any type of rap, especially in video form, but Flipsyde has produced a song and video for the ages with a very special message. Use the Amazon button on the right to purchase the CD or check out the video below:

One Enzo Down, 398 to go!

If you're not familiar with the Ferrari Enzo, it's one of the most famous production cars in history. First showcased at the 2002 Paris Auto Show, the entire production run of 399 was sold out almost immediately for a mere $670,000 each! Chump change.

Until the recent debut of the Bugatti Veyron 16.4 (1001 HP from a quad-turbo W16 engine) the Enzo was the fastest production car ever to be built. If you ever have a chance of seeing one, congratulate yourself. It doesn't happen. The owners very rarely show these cars to the public, much less driven them on the street. On the street? That brings up an interesting philosophical debate that I'll leave for other blogs: Can you get insurance on a $670,000 car, and would anyone rich enough to purchase one actually buy the insurance?

Darwin Award winners come in many shapes and sizes, some very wealthy. Let me nominate a 2006 candidate...Swedish mobster Stefan Eriksson. You see, Mr. Eriksson thought it would be a lot of fun to try out his 660-HP super-exotic Enzo by racing a nearly-as-fast Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren. On the street!

With only 617 HP and and an extra 700 lbs, and although undoutedly more comfortable as a daily driver, the 200-MPH SLR is no match for the 220-MPH Enzo...in the hands of a competent driver, which is exactly what Mr. Eriksson found out recently.

After topping out over 200 MPH, according to witnesses, the Ferrari skidded out of control and slammed side-ways into a slightly less-expensive telephone pole (which, sadly to say, did not survive the crash). The car split in half, was completely destroyed, but Mr. Eriksson was saved! Woohoo!

As strange as the crash was, the story told to police was even more bizarre. Apparently, according to Mr. Eriksson, he wasn't even driving his own $670,000 Ferrari at 200 mph on the street. Oh no, he was just a passenger. The even less competent, real driver was actually a mysterious German named Dietrich...no last name.

Here's the big shocker: Mr. Eriksson's blood-alcohol level was above the legal limit at .09. Check out the pictures.

Emily

While the rest of us are meandering around in relatively cushy lives complaining non-stop about trivial matters (gas prices are up 20% in 5 years, the market has only increased by 10% over the past 18 months, and the timing of the traffic light closest to your office seems to always be against you when you're late), there are a scattering of very young angels hidden among us that we rarely acknowledge. How much we could learn from them!

Meet Emily. She's a darling 9-year-old whose best friend is a cat named Pippy. She loves America, Christmas, Disney princesses, and Jesus. She's much like my own 6-year-old daughter. Except for one thing: Emily has cancer.

While I'm obsessing over my son's delayed potty-training, my cat's incurable vomitting habbit, and way too many door dings on my beloved car, Emily's attending regular testing and treament sessions. Her parents are experiencing anxiety the likes of which only the unluckiest of us parents every encounter. They're pulling their hair out, can't sleep at night, and are in a permanent state of worry over the future of their little angel.

But Emily takes this all in stride. Such youth and innocence. She probably thinks this is a perfectly normal part of life, something everyone endures. She doesn't even seem bothered that she was dealt such a poor hand. The rest of us are running around with a three-of-a-kind, two pairs, flush, or a full house and envious of the 5-of-a-kind the guy down the street was dealt. Emily's stuck with a 9-high and is putting on what the rest of us would call a "poker face". But for Emily, it's not a show. Her faith in God assures her that everything will be ok. She might not get the 4-0f-a-kind, but she doesn't care. Because she knows that what's important is to just make it to the next hand. And with God's grace...she will.

God bless you Emily.