John McCain: Charlie Crist not right for veep but good enough for the Senate
May 20, 2009 at 11:00 am by Wayne Garcia
2008 GOP presidential nominee John McCain, who spurned Charlie Crist in his vice presidential selection process, has endorsed the Florida governor in Crist’s bid for the U.S. Senate in 2010. The Florida Capital Bureau reports:
“I was proud to have had Charlie’s support in my campaign, and I am proud to support him in his campaign,” the senator from Arizona said in a release.
Immediately following Crist’s announcement last week, his campaign rolled out the backing of U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, head of the Republican senatorial campaign committee, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.
McCain and Crist are both moderates and the endorsement is not surprising. It does continue to define the primary race between Crist and Marco Rubio, a former House speaker from Miami who is appealing to fiscal and social conservatives in the Republican Party.
File that endorsement in the “Doesn’t-really-help-much” folder.
