Posted on 12/25/2007 5:27:18 PM PST by Tlaloc
John McCain and Mike Huckabee have become unusual allies, united by their desire to stop Mitt Romney from winning the early presidential nominating contests in Iowa and New Hampshire.
While Huckabee and McCain have repeatedly criticized Romney, they have showered each other with affection. McCain has lauded Huckabee as "a man of integrity, honesty, and decency." And Huckabee has praised McCain as "a true, honest-to-God American hero."
The warmth between them may be heartfelt, but both men recognize that they need each other over the next two weeks. McCain needs Huckabee to beat Romney in Iowa's Republican caucuses on Jan. 3, so that Romney is weakened for the New Hampshire primary five days later. And Huckabee needs McCain to draw votes from Romney in Iowa. Polls indicate McCain and Romney are in a statistical tie in New Hampshire, and Huckabee is leading Romney In Iowa.
The alliance between the folksy former Arkansas governor and the irreverent Arizona senator has been one of the stranger story lines to emerge in the Republican race.
McCain, after all, has had a rocky relationship with evangelical voters since he criticized Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson during the 2000 presidential campaign, saying their message of "intolerance" hurt the Republican Party and America. Huckabee, meanwhile, has rocketed to the top of the Iowa polls and the top tier of national candidates by courting evangelical voters and marketing himself in his ads as a "Christian leader."
McCain and Huckabee have put aside whatever differences each might have in the interests of blocking Romney, said Dante J. Scala, a University of New Hampshire political scientist. At presidential debates, and whenever they cross paths on the campaign trail, McCain and Huckabee swap compliments.
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Me too! Fred is the man we need in the White House! Looking forward to hearing about events as Fred, Jeri, Hayden, and Sammy head back out on the campaign trail in Iowa tomorrow. Also looking forward to hearing Mark Belling who is sitting in for Rush tomorrow and Thursday. Mark Belling (Milwaukee WI) is a huge Fred Thompson supporter!
Good, maybe the three of them will all go down the hole together.
Don’t want any one of those RINOs on the ticket.
McCain/Huckabee 2008 - a stronger ticket. Any RINO is better than the beast.
Huckabee has surged because he won a couple of debates and he’s got evangelical support. If a quick rise can happen to the liberal pro-life evangelical Huckster, it can happen to the conservative pro-life evangelical Hunter.
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According to Intrade, the winner of the December 12th GOP debate was... Duncan Hunter.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1938773/posts
Why the smart money is on Duncan Hunter
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1926032/posts
Sorry .. that’s the Italian dictator .. Moose-a-lini
LOL!! Can’t remember how to spell his name.
I will state it right here and now, so I am not seduced by the inevitbable "Oh my, but you will elect Hillary (or Obama)!" or some such other RNC-inspired situational ethics scare-tatic nonsense in the Fall of next year and/or on FR (no doubt).
Huckabee/McCain in 2008 will hand the presidency over to the rats. McCain’s CFR, Amnesty, and voting with the democrats 80% of the time has made him unelectable by conservatives.
For conservatives, this is like cops rooting for one street gang to rub out another street gang...
Both the Huckster and McCain seem unstable, and totally unsuitable to become US Prez.
Well, not so much the Huck, but he IS unsuitable due to the fact he feeds into the worst stereotype most people think about the GOP, even Republicans themselves.
Which is a dogmatic southern preacher who politically rejects out of hand other segments of the party and the nation.
oh no we wouldnt have 8 years of gore, he'd definately tanked with 4 years. I got no problem with Bush's first 4 and I voted for him for his 2nd term....he has disappointed me. I dont fear a Hillary presidency, I do fear another rino presidency because we would put up with hillary like policies and convence ourselves the rino is better than hillary. The economy could tank, good time to hand it off to hillary maybe in 4 years we will get a true conservative to win.
More extremely naive and dysfunctional thinking. The Evil Witch and her ilk could do damage to this great country that could takes decades to undo. Think Jimmy Peanut Brain and Iran... 30 years later we STILL are dealing with the mess.
4 years of peanut man got us RR for 8, its a good trade. GOP didnt wake up with 2006 elections.
But the facts of today are we can get someone such as Hiltery that makes Peanut Head look downright competent and conservative and WE DON'T HAVE A RR WAITING IN THE WINGS! HORRID TRADE!
McCain/Huckabee would be one of the dimmest tickets in a long time. Two intellectual lightweights in way over their heads running for POTUS.
Bumping in view of developing events today!
NEVER EVER NEVER EVER EVER !!!!! NEVER NEVER !!!
I WILL NEVER VOTE FOR MCHUCKABEE
THEY SCREWED ROMNEY!!!! I CANT STAND TO EVEN LOOK AT MCCAIN.
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