Endorsements don't discourage Romney

GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney said he was not discouraged that two leading social conservatives announced they were endorsing rival candidates for president today.

U.S. Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kansas, who dropped out of the presidential race last month, announced he would support his colleague, U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., for president. Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson, host of the 700 Club, is expected to throw his support behind former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani at a lunchtime press conference today.

"I'm really pleased with the support I've gotten. I can't get the support of everybody," Romney said. "I can't get all the social conservative to endorse my candidacy ... I expect I'll continue to get good support and so will the other guys."

The endorsements could be important in swaying the 30 percent of South Carolina voters who claim they have yet to make up their mind on a candidate, according to a Winthrop University/ETV poll released last week. Romney has worked hard to sway social conservatives.

Earlier this week Paul Weyrich, a founder of the Moral Majority and the Heritage Foundation, endorsed Romney,  following a similar nod from Bob Jones III, former president of Bob Jones University in Greenville.

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[malach hamovess]

Not once have you asked the great patriot - Mitt Romney - why he and his five sons have managed to each voluntarily serve in Mormon missions but not one has served his country in the military: is it that not one of them values country over religion; or that bringing the word of the Mormon Church to the otherwise godless people of France - after all, they've only been Catholic for 1500 years - somehow represents some sort of personal sacrafice, rather than just a family-paid holiday.