Monday, February 4, 2008

By Your Friends Shall Ye Know Them, Senator McCain?

OK, so John McCain wants the voters to make up our mind between himself and Governor Romney, at least in part, on the basis of the people who support them. Fair enough, even if it's not an exhaustive list, let's do that shall we?

For Senator McCain, we have the following endorsers and supporters (Partial Hat Tip: Michelle Malkin):

Governor Charlie Crist (RINO-FL);
Senator Mel "Amnesty" Martinez (RINO-FL);
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (RINO-CA);
Senator Lindsey Graham-nesty (RINO-SC);
Former Governor Don Sundquist (RINO-TN);
Senators Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe (RINO-ME);
Senator Joe Lieberman (I/D-CT) (Sen. McCain co-authored the McCain-Lieberman cap-and trade Economy Crippling Act with him;
The National Council of La Raza (that means "The Race" in Spanish);
Dr. Juan "Mexico First" Hernandez;
Geraldo Rivera;
Charles Keating;
Jerrold Perenchio;
The New York Times;
The L.A. Times;
Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) (Sen. McCain co-authored the wretched amnesty bill of 2007with him);
Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) (Sen. McCain co-authored the First Amendment crushing McCain-Feingold Incumbent Protection Act with him);
Senator Hillary Clinton and former President Bill Clinton (they think he's just lovely and civil, at least until those trailer-trash jackals eat him for breakfast in the general election)

For Governor Romney, we have the following:

Former Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA);
Kris Kobach
Laura Ingraham and Sean Hannity (outright endorsements);
Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh (clear supporters as a McCain alternative);
Mark Levin at National Review Online;
Congressman Brian Bilbray (R-CA)...he is one of the foremost voices in the House pressing for employers to verify their employees are present and working in the U.S. legally;
U.S. Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN);
Andrew McCarthy;
Senator Thad Cochran (R-MS);
Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA);
Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC);
Congressman Peter Hoekstra (R-MI); and,
Congressman Tom Tancredo (R-CA).

So to recap, we have a bunch of RINOs who would, in any other era past, have been considered Democrats, along with a collection of actual Democrats, open borders racists, liberal newspapers, and deep pocketed internationalists supporting McCain...and for Romney, while his list hasn't quite the length of Senator McCain's, it features many strong fiscal conservatives, national security hawks, advocates of enforcement-first and only on illegal immigration, and solid conservative talk show hosts and columnists. This math is not difficult, so if conservatives take Senator McCain at his request, he would be in deep trouble come Super Tuesday. We can only hope.