Mitt Romney is set to endorse John McCain this afternoon, and to ask his delegates to swing their support to him. If they all do, McCain will have enough delegates to win the GOP nomination. There's a lot of bad blood between the Romney and Huckabee camps; the Romney backers think Huckabee killed his nomination chances and the Huckabee supporters believe Romney's a phony conservative not worthy of being the movement's standard-bearer, a role both men clearly want to play. Although the endorsement is not unexpected, I'd guess that Huckabee will play the victim of the monied GOP establishment that shut down the campaign of the country preacher who really represents the interests of the socially conservative wing of the party. How his supporters will react to effectively being shut out by the fake conservative Romney will be very interesting to watch. --Sarah Posner
