From last night’s Special Report with Brit Hume:

—On Giuliani and McCain—

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: This is a very important endorsement. Most endorsements look odd and have no effect, like Al Gore endorsing Howard Dean. These two men are a fit. They have obvious affection for each other, affinity, and their constituencies overlap remarkably, and we saw it last night in Florida, in southeast Florida, Miami-Dade, each of these were running strong. It is the same constituency of the non-regular Republicans.
HUME: Then how much does Giuliani help?
KRAUTHAMMER: If he drops out, which he did, and he explicitly endorses to McCain, it adds to his column. If you take McCain and Giuliani yesterday in Florida together, add them together, you get 51 percent of the vote.
HUME: But the spectacle of John McCain with Rudy Giuliani at his side campaigning across America in the next week is not going to do much, I would think, to make restive conservatives, who think that John McCain is not one of them, feel any better about him. . . .
KRAUTHAMMER: Giuliani is not going to help him among conservatives or evangelicals. But he is not going to be deployed in Georgia. He will be deployed in New York and on the west coast, in areas in which he has appeal.Look, these two guys are the big sheriffs. So he reinforces that. He acts as a surrogate. And they are also representatives of the Republican apostates. Giuliani has his problem with abortion, of course. McCain’s apostasies are too numerous to actually count.
And so each of them together has this independent Democratic outreach which will be helpful in the general election, and that’s where I think he will be important. But, obviously, he will not help in the south.
MORT KONDRACKE: This would create an opportunity for Romney if Romney were stronger and had credibility among the conservatives. For Giuliani, the moderate and the apostate, to be joining up with McCain, you would think that Romney could say, “Aha, look at those people. Vote for me instead. I’m the real conservative.” But somehow he just doesn’t have the swatch to convince them.