Barack Obama was non-endorsed by Rep. Dan Boren (D-OK) because he was swayed by Republican talking points the other day. Well the GOP didn't want to come up short, so now at least fourteen from the Republican caucus came out to non-endorse John McCain. Keep in mind that most of these Congressmen will still vote for McCain, they just can't endorse him for whatever reason.
From The Hill:
At least 14 Republican members of Congress have refused to endorse or publicly support Sen. John McCain for president, and more than a dozen others declined to answer whether they back the Arizona senator.
Many of the recalcitrant GOP members declined to detail their reasons for withholding support, but Rep. John Peterson (R-Pa.) expressed major concerns about McCain’s energy policies and Rep. Walter Jones (R-N.C.) cited the Iraq war.
A handful of other Republicans on Capitol Hill made the distinction between “endorsing” and “supporting,” adding that while they have not endorsed, they do support McCain.
In recent weeks, much of the discussion and debate about party unity has been on the Democrats’ side, amid their protracted presidential primary. Yet achieving harmony is a concern on both sides of the aisle this year.
For whatever infinitesimal amount of disunity on the Democratic side there is (Joe Lieberman doesn't count, he isn't a Democrat), the intra-party war going on over on the right side of the aisle is far greater.
The problem is that what made the Republicans so great at the beginning of the movement is tearing them apart now. Once the conglomeration of religious leaders, social conservatives and business community finally achieved power and tried to enact their policy, it proved what we knew all along. Frankly, it was doomed to fail. Now the Republican Party is being torn asunder and this is just one small consequence of that.
If you think a couple dozen non-endorsements are bad, just wait until November when America votes the GOP out of the White House for the next four years or more.
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