Pat McCrory was so enthusiastic about the campaign in the 7th congressional district that he endorsed, not one Republican, but two!
In January, McCrory, the 2008 Republican nominee for governor, endorsed Will Breazeale and did a campaign flyaround in the district, currently represented by U.S. Rep. Mike McIntyre, a Democrat.
But more recently, McCrory showed up to campaign for one of Breazeale's opponents in the Republican primary, Ilario Pantano.
"I'm supporting both Mr. Pantano and Mr. Breazeale because I want the strongest Republican candidate to win," McCrory told WWAY-TV in Wilmington, saying it was important to wrest control of the House of Representatives from Democrats.
Pantano was a sport about McCrory's, shall we say, flexibility.
"What's important isn't who he's endorsing," Pantano told the TV station. "What's important is that conservatives retake the House."
McCrory said Breazeale wasn't miffed: "Will understands that when I endosed him no other person was in the race."
