Is Bush senior sending a message on behalf of his son?

An intriguing development in the US presidential race, Bush senior just came very close to endorsing John McCain. McCain is currently on a ‘No Surrender’ tour designed to reenergise his candidacy based on his staunch support and advocacy for a strategy that might actually succeed in Iraq. At a stop in South Carolina, the McCain team unveiled an effusive video message from Bush 41. Now, they were quick to clarify that this was not a formal endorsement. But both sides must have known that this video would set tongues wagging, especially as the Romney campaign appeared to have been courting the wider Bush clan, and the fact that it was unveiled in South Carolina, where Bush junior still has a 61 percent approval rating among Republicans rather than New Hampshire where his approval rating is down in the 30s even among GOP loyalists, can’t have been a coincidence.