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Whatever the motivation, Bauer's endorsement, while hardly a monumental event in McCain's campaign, needs to be handled carefully by the Arizona senator. In conservative, upcountry South Carolina, Bauer is an asset, but the arch-conservative's stamp of approval could do more harm than good once the campaigns leave the South behind. In Michigan, particularly, McCain will want to come across as a true centrist; after all, he'll be courting the Grosse Pointe Republican contingent, who blanch at overtly conservative language on social issues like abortion. As long as McCain loosens his affiliation with Bauer after South...
...wasn't necessarily a tight convergence of political beliefs that led conservative former presidential candidate Gary Bauer to endorse John McCain over George W. Bush. "Bauer really dislikes Bush," says TIME correspondent Steve Lopez, who is following the campaigns in South Carolina. "During the New Hampshire debates, McCain and Bauer forged some sort of alliance - based primarily on their opposition to Bush's campaign." TIME political correspondent John Dickerson, also on the road in South Carolina, sees Bauer's choice as a not-so-subtle poke at rival Christian conservatives. "There's a deep-seated tension between the Ralph Reed...
...concerned staff member searches for him, as Bauer's red face pops back through the curtain...
...Bauer jumps back on the stage with the spatula (but not the pan) and declares: I'm a fighter...
...with a quandary that first surfaced during January's Iowa caucus, when he found himself pushed into conservative positions on issues like abortion in order to attract right-wing votes. Of course, his burden in this regard has eased somewhat with the withdrawal of conservatives Steve Forbes and Gary Bauer (though Alan Keyes is still there to draw some votes). In this instance, though, it is a hurdle that's even more aggravating to jump when he knows that the threatened withdrawal of Christian Coalition support in the general election is an empty one - in his fervor, Robertson failed...