The closer John McCain gets to the Republican nomination, the longer his list of supporters gets. The Arizona senator added six more Republican leaders this morning: the governors of Mississippi, North Dakota, Louisiana, Hawaii, Georgia and Alabama.
Although the announcement was billed in a news release, sent Friday evening, as an event with “major endorsements,” the Arizona senator was not in attendance. Instead, he planned an afternoon of campaigning in Texas.
In the senator’s absence, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour and Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue hosted reporters. “Welcome y’all,” Barbour said. He praised McCain, jumped on Democratic front-runner Sen. Barack Obama for being too liberal and then encouraged members of his state to vote in the Republican primary for McCain as well as congressional members.
Perdue suggested the news media remove the word
“presumptive” from the label “presumptive nominee.” “We’ve done what primaries
are supposed to do,” he said. “We have winnowed this down to a person who I
believe is eminently qualified to lead the United States of America.” Perdue
praised McCain’s ability to keep the nation “safe and
secure.”
When asked about concern over McCain’s conservative credentials, Barbour answered in the third person: “John McCain’s not as conservative as Haley Barbour.” Even so, Barbour said, the race has reached a point where the party would now rally around the candidate.
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