More on John McCain

The McCain Fiscal Record, and his son Midshipman Jack McCain speaks up.

UPDATE: Mitt supports McCain, and the fate of the delegates:

The senator began the day with 843 delegates, to 242 for Huckabee.

While Romney can ask his delegates to support McCain, he will not be able to simply hand over all 280 delegates. Many are from caucus states that will not select the actual delegates until state conventions this spring. Those delegates will be selected by people who supported Romney in the initial caucuses; the direction they go depends on whether they follow Romney's lead in endorsing McCain.

In other states, the delegates are bound to Romney, and their fate is governed by state party rules. In states like Montana, where Romney has 25 delegates, they would be free to support whomever they choose after Romney releases them.

UPDATE: WaPo:

But in practice, party officials said almost all of the delegates will probably follow Romney's wishes. Some states require their delegates to cast ballots for the candidate who won them on the first ballot.

If all 280 of Romney's delegates support McCain, the senator would have 1,123 delegates, just shy of the total needed. McCain will have to wait until at least March 4, when Texas, Ohio and other states vote, before he can collect the number needed to guarantee the nomination.

UPDATE: Kimberley Strassel, WSJ on the same old tax and spend Dems vs. the tax cutting GOP:

Mr. Obama's wish list for just one term? Some $260 billion over four years for health care. Another $60 billion for an energy plan. A further $340 billion for his tax plan. A $14 billion national service plan. A $72 billion education package. Also, $25 billion in foreign assistance funding, $2 billion for Iraqi refugees and $1.5 billion for paid-leave systems. (I surely forgot some.) Mr. Obama says he'll pay for these treasures by stopping the Iraq war and taxing the rich. But both Democrats have already spent the tax hikes several times over, and even a Ph.D. would struggle with this math.

Making a message of fiscal responsibility harder is Mr. McCain's reputation as a fiscal tightwad, and his role as one of the fiercest critics of his own party's spending blowout. Watch him also expand this debate to earmarks, as he's already done with an ad ripping into Mrs. Clinton for her $1 million request for a Woodstock museum. Mr. McCain's earmark requests last year? $0.

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