Show t m McCain gets GOP nomination Maeve Reston Los Angeles Times limes All but written out of the presidential race last summer John McCain crossed the finish line for the Republican nomination in m first place Tuesday night when he won the final batch of delegates he needed to clinch As former fonner Arkansas Gov Mike Huckabee his sole remaining opponent bowed out and told his supporters it was time to hit hh the reset button and get behind McCain the former fonner Arizona senator was making plans to visit the White House on Wednesday for what amounts to his party's coronation the endorsement of President Bush As McCain took the stage at the Fairmont Hotel with wife Cindy McCain his supporters unfurled a blue banner bearing the magic number of delegates 1191 McCain won all four Republican primaries Tuesday Vermont Rhode Island Ohio and Texas We Ve have won enough delegates to claim with confidence humility and a sense of great responsibility that I will be the Republican nominee for president of the United States McCain said after the strains of his now- now familiar Rocky theme had faded |