Hoeft Flip Flops on Presidential Endorsement
Jim Hoeft, one of the Commonwealth’s leading conservative bloggers and founder of Bearing Drift, has flip-flopped on his GOP presidential endorsement.
On December 19th he endorsed Governor Mitt Romney for the Republican nomination for President. In this post Jim stated, “Our decision to choose Romney over all others was difficult. However, we feel that Romney not only shares many of the positives of Giuliani, Thompson, Huckabee and McCain, but he succeeds in doing well where their negatives trail off,” and concluded, “We would be wise to unite behind him now.” Again on January 17th Jim reaffirmed his support for Romney in this post saying, “It seems the National Review and now Ann Coulter agree with the Squeaky Wheel and I that Mitt Romney represents the best candidate in the Republican field.”
Then in a seemingly unexplained flip flop Mr. Hoeft said that he now supports McCain. In this post, he plainly stated, “This is in addition to Shaun Kenney, DJ McGuire, Old Zach, Anne Dalton, and myself, who I know for sure in the Virginia Blogosphere are pro-McCain.”
Has Jim merely joined the Republican lemmings who have recently flocked to McCain or is there something more substantial? Usually one does not switch candidates until the old endorsee is out of the race. To give credence to a lemmings theory, Jim titles one post “Conservatives continue to endorse Romney” and the most recent one “More Republicans in Virginia supporting McCain.”
I ask Jim the same question I ask the rest of the lemmings, WHY? Read More. . . .
On December 19th he endorsed Governor Mitt Romney for the Republican nomination for President. In this post Jim stated, “Our decision to choose Romney over all others was difficult. However, we feel that Romney not only shares many of the positives of Giuliani, Thompson, Huckabee and McCain, but he succeeds in doing well where their negatives trail off,” and concluded, “We would be wise to unite behind him now.” Again on January 17th Jim reaffirmed his support for Romney in this post saying, “It seems the National Review and now Ann Coulter agree with the Squeaky Wheel and I that Mitt Romney represents the best candidate in the Republican field.”
Then in a seemingly unexplained flip flop Mr. Hoeft said that he now supports McCain. In this post, he plainly stated, “This is in addition to Shaun Kenney, DJ McGuire, Old Zach, Anne Dalton, and myself, who I know for sure in the Virginia Blogosphere are pro-McCain.”
Has Jim merely joined the Republican lemmings who have recently flocked to McCain or is there something more substantial? Usually one does not switch candidates until the old endorsee is out of the race. To give credence to a lemmings theory, Jim titles one post “Conservatives continue to endorse Romney” and the most recent one “More Republicans in Virginia supporting McCain.”
I ask Jim the same question I ask the rest of the lemmings, WHY? Read More. . . .
