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Mitt Romney, who ended his presidential campaign after Super Tuesday, offically endorsed Sen. John McCain for the Republican nomination today.


"I am honored today to give my full support to Sen. McCain.  This is a man capable of leading our country in this dangerous hour," Romney said at a press conference this afternoon.

He went onto say:  "I entered this race because I love America. And because I love America, in this time of war I feel I have to now stand aside for our party and for our country."

If all of Romney's delegates choose McCain that will give him 1,013 total, only 78 short of taking the nomination.

Today the president of flip flopping ended his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. 

During his campaign Romney ran opposite on numerous positions that he held every time he ran for office in the past.  Romney would have made an extremely week general election candidate due to his position changes and it is a good thing he is out. 

If he would like to make another run for president in future years he first needs to be elected to another office with his current positions and then go onto serve in that office without changing his mind on where he stands.

Mitt Romney was the target of recent attacks by fellow Republican candidates Mike Huckabee and Alan Keyes.

Yesterday Huckabee said that Romney was a "man who didn’t hit political puberty in the Conservative ranks until he was sixty years old."  He went onto say:  "I just think you can't just have a change of opinion on fundamental issues over and over and wait until you’re running for President to do it.  To say that you’ve never thought about the origins of human life until you were nearly 60 years old -- I find that hard to believe even for somebody who hasn’t run for office before, but certainly for somebody who had."

Meanwhile Alan Keyes, who is making an uphill climb for the nomination, says that "Mitt Romney is single-handedly responsible for instituting same-sex marriage in Massachusetts."  

Keyes continues, saying that Romney "pushed through same-sex marriage all by himself, in the absence of any authority or requirement to do so, having a complete misunderstanding of his role as governor and of the significance of the court's opinion."  "The court never ordered him to act, nor did he have the right to act, since the legislature never changed the law.  Romney claimed he had no other choice, but that's completely untrue."