After Florida, Rudy Giuliani dropped his bid for president.  McCain came in big in this winner-takes-all state, slowly easing ahead of Mitt Romney, a former front runner.    Giuliani, after formally dropping out has endorsed McCain.  Adding to his growing list of endorsements is Governor Schwarzenegger of California.  California represents 170 republican delegates up for grabs.  Things seem to be going pretty well for this candidate whose campaign was once considered dead.  Schwarzenegger has been doing a pretty good job as the governor of California and I think his endorsement will make an impression on Californians who represent the most delegates in the nation.

Wednesday night, the remaining Republican candidates participated in their final debate before Super Tuesday.  The debate was mostly lack-luster and largely ignored everyone else on stage that wasn’t named Mitt or John.  Because of McCain’s win in Florida, he has changed the Republican race into a two-man battle.  At one moment, Mike Huckabee himself pointed out his seclusion on the left side of the stage.  I would guess that after Super Tuesday everyone else will drop out officially, but they should have already.

Thursday Romney accused McCain of using Nixon-like tactics.  CNN quoted Romney as saying, “I don’t want to see our party go back to that kind of campaigning.”  But a McCain advisor said Romney is just lashing out.  Romney does seem a little frustrated going into Super Tuesday.  I think he should be, Tuesday is fast approaching and McCain has been racking up some key endorsements.  Statements like the one I quoted from Romney indicate to me his growing fears with fewer and fewer days to try to ease McCain’s bounce coming out of Florida.

Two words come to mind with Mitt…fake tan.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cppsbv3UrZQ
The video of Schwarzenegger's endorsement of McCain.