McCain tells Santorum it's time to get off the lawn (says campaign "is now basically irrelevant")

[Amerigo Vespucci]

By Morgan Little
April 4, 2012, 8:52 a.m.

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Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Jacquelyn Martin / AP Photo / March 28, 2012)

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-mccain-romney-will-win-santorum-campaign-basically-irrelevant-20120404,0,1606073.story

While Rick Santorum has vowed to stay in the presidential race despite losing three more primaries to Mitt Romney on Tuesday, the last GOP nominee to seek the White House said Santorum’s campaign is now “basically irrelevant.”

John McCain, the Arizona senator who lost the election to Barack Obama in 2008, said in an interview with CNN’s Soledad O’Brien on Wednesday that “whether Rick Santorum stays in or not, is now basically irrelevant… Mitt has a lot of ground to make up, it’s been a very nasty primary, his unfavorables are high.”

McCain’s comments came the morning after Romney won in Wisconsin, Maryland and the District of Columbia, pushing his delegate count to more than half of the 1,144 he needs to claim the nomination.

Despite the setbacks, Santorum vowed at a rally in Pennsylvania on Tuesday night to campaign hard over the next few weeks in his home state, which votes on April 24.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

1. If anyone knows irrelevant it's McCain.

[yellowcanine]

2. By all means Santorum should get off the lawn lest he leave a deposit there.

I hate when that happens to my lawn.

[Cirque du So-What]

3. McAnus knows 'over' when he sees it

Wonder if this is a big suck-up to RawMoney - perhaps his VP?