The Love Boat

This past Friday, Fred Thompson, former presidential primary candidate, endorsed current GOP victor, John McCain. Thompson's support came as an after-thought to the McCain campaign but as the GOP gets prepared for the General Election, its important to get as many states behind the GOP ticket. Thompson's endorsement served as transfer of Tennessee GOP voters. As the Democrats still battle it out, Republicans gain the advantage of putting the primary behind them as they advance towards the next step; the General Election. The question is why did Thompson endorse McCain? While McCain has proven his lead, Huckabee is still fighting, hence why not support Huckabee. The Washington Post, quotes Thompson - "close ranks". Also, McCain has proven himself the GOP victor, therefore Thompson has no reason to put himself between his supporters and the GOP general election candidate. Fall 2008, the GOP love boat will go head to head with the democratic nominated candidate.