Posted by
Gamecock on Sunday, January 07, 2007 12:37:43 AM
On his radio show this past Friday, Hugh Hewitt, gave a number of percieved GOP longshot candidates a boost in the GOP Presidential nomination Race 4 2008 as he trashed John McCain as an unserious candidate with little GOP rank and file support and defended his own objectivity amid a demand that he endorse Mitt Romney, who is the subject of Hewiit's soon to be released book analyzing whether Romney's mormon faith will prevent Mitt from securing the nomination.
Former Colorado Governor Bill Owens endorsed Romney on Hugh's show on Thursday.
Hugh stated that he would not endorse Romney even as he placed Mitt at the top of his rankings, which he desribed as being akin to pre-season NCAA football rankings before any games are played. Hugh ranked the cadidates thus:
1-Mitt Romney
2-Rudy Giuliani
3-Sam Brownback
4-Tommy Thompson
5-Duncan Hunter
6-John McCain
These rankings were made during a monologue in which Hugh described Mitt as the strongest candidate and Rudy and Sam as fine candidates, either of which could well be the nominee, and good ones. And while most of the monologue focussed on McCain's recent Vanity Fair and Bill Bennett Show interview implosions, the fact that so prominent a conservative as Hugh Hewitt thinks so highly of fromer Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson and california Congressman Duncan Hunter, surely gives them needed boosts in their quest for credibility in their respective campaign quests.
However, despite Hugh's general disdain for a McCain candidacy, he did praise the Arizona Senator's "full-throated" warning to the Mullahs.
“One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson
Gamecock, DeVine Op-Ed for The Charlotte Observer, blogs at Race 4 2008 and TMR and is the Legal Editor for The HinzSight Report.