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John Kasich is staying in the Republican presidential race, his campaign said Tuesday. After finishing a distant third in Tuesday's Indiana primary, the Kasich campaign's chief strategist, John Weaver, sent out a memo announcing the Ohio governor will remain in the race until Trump secures the GOP nomination. "Tonight's results are not going to alter Gov. Kasich's campaign plans," Weaver wrote in the memo. "Our strategy has been and continues to be one that involves winning the nomination at an open convention."

Kasich: "We believe that an open convention is the best way for the Republican Party to win" http://cnn.it/1pzz0Ig

This is an open letter to all RNC delegates attending the GOP convention in Tampa next week. This was part of a campaign called The Goliath Project where almost half of the delegates were recently mailed a copy of this posted letter and another letter written by another great patriot, Brian of Berkeley. As the name of the project implies, we understand that the odds are great against taking down the giant Republican machine with our little slingshot and stones. But we cannot stop trying to defeat the giants, for they will surely win. If you know a delegate to...

Rick Santorum has shown he is a tireless campaigner and is the number one choice of evangelical voters. Now the former Pennsylvania senator is saying he is open to the idea of filling the nation's number two slot if his fellow GOP front-runner secures the party's nomination. In a Monday interview with CBN's David Brody, when Santorum was asked if he would consider running alongside Mitt Romney as the vice presidential nominee, he gave an affirmative reply. "Of course," Santorum told Brody. "I mean, look. I would do in this race as I always say, this is the most important...

DIRECT LINK - WOWSER OF A CNN INTERVIEW! 8:20 p.m. ET – Appearing on CNN after voting at a caucus site in Wasilla, Alaska, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said she hopes the Republican race continues with more debates but she would not say for whom she voted. 8:22 p.m. ET – Asked if she would consider running for president in 2016, Palin said she “would seriously consider anything I can do to help our country.” “Anything in this life is possible,” the former 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate said. 8:25 p.m. ET – What would she do if...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: I need to issue a warning. If you were not here yesterday, you missed one of the most volatile phone calls that we've had in a while on the program from a listener, a supporter, a man who professed throughout the call that he loved me, been listening a long time, but yesterday he hated me. Well, that may be a bit of a stretch, but he was really, really ticked off. And it was all because I simply read the first two of the 59 points of Mitt Romney's economic plan. I was quoting from a...

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LAREDO, Texas (CNN) – Saturday morning, Mike Huckabee took a trip to the border he talks about securing at every campaign stop... [snip] Huckabee, a strong proponent of building a fence along the Southern border, told reporters that it was not about keeping people out, but keeping bad people out. He gave examples of drug and human traffickers as well as terrorists. “I don’t resent that people want to come here. I’ve always said I thank God every day I’m in a country people are trying to break into, not in a country they’re trying to break out of,” said...

Conservatives who find McCain unacceptable may want to consider supporting Mike Huckabee. Consider Huckabee's record as governor of Arkansas: * Cut the state capital gains tax rate by 25%. * Abolished capital gains taxes on home sales. * Abolished the state marriage penalty tax. * Pushed through the first broad-based tax cuts in decades, saving taxpayers nearly $400 million. * Indexed income tax brackets to inflation, thus protecting taxpayers from being pushed into higher tax brackets by inflation. * Doubled the child-care tax credit. * Increased the tax deduction for single individuals to $2,000. * Increased the tax deduction for...

SEAN HANNITY ... : ... We get right to our top story tonight. Super Tuesday [sic] is just four short days away. Could this be the end of the road for Mike Huckabee? ... HUCKABEE: ... I think it's absurd for us just to assume, let's call the game because someone is close to the finish line... My point is, right now I'm the only candidate in this race that supports the Human Life Amendment, the only one that supports the Fair Tax, the only one that supports the Federal Marriage Amendment, the only one that supports a real plan...

New Texas ad (link in post #2): "It's time to stand up and be counted, not lie down and be conquered."

Mike Huckabee said today he's staying in the Republican presidential race because Sen. John McCain might have run afoul of the Federal Election Commission and be unable to campaign for much of the rest of this year... "He wrote these laws," the former Arkansas governor said, adding they were "one of the worst things to happen to American politics." "It may very well be that the law he pushed comes back to bite him." At issue is Mr. McCain's request last summer to take part in the federal matching funds program for the primary election and his request earlier this...

Mike Huckabee, campaigning in Ohio yesterday, formally asked GOP rival John McCain for a two-man debate... [snip] McCain, the presumptive nominee, had said earlier in the day that his campaign had never heard from Huckabee about a debate, despite the fact that Huckabee had been making the request publicly since Mitt Romney dropped out. In a recent ARG Texas poll, McCain is leading Huckabee only by a few points: McCain 45, Huckabee 41. Senior staffers tell FOX that while the ARG poll can differ wildly at times, the crowds for Huckabee have been considerably bigger than the crowds for McCain;...

Tuesday 4 March 2008: 137 of 140 of Texas's delegates to the Republican National Convention are allocated to presidential contenders in today's Texas Presidential Primary. * 96 district delegates are to be allocated to presidential contenders based on the primary results in each of the 32 congressional districts: each congressional district is assigned 3 National Convention delegates. These delegates are allocated to the presidential contenders as follows: * If a candidate receives a majority of the vote (more than 50%), that candidate is allocated all 3 of the district's delegates. [General Rules for All Conventions and Meetings Section 8.a.] *...

Video of Governor Huckabee's appearance on Saturday Night Live is being removed from You Tube due to a copyright claim by NBC. The legal link is in post #2.

Gov. Rick Perry is strongly urging Mike Huckabee to drop his Republican presidential bid. Mr. Perry told a Washington, D.C., TV station last week, "It's over for the Republican nomination. And I respect Mike, but it's time for us as a party to get behind Senator [John] McCain," who has an overwhelming delegate lead and is close to securing the GOP nod. Mr. Perry has called Mr. Huckabee urging that he drop out of the race, but the comments are the first time he has done so publicly. Mr. Huckabee has expressed confidence that he can win Texas' March 4...

Republican Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee visited Colorado Springs for the second time in less than a year. He met with supporter Dr. James Dobson at Focus on the Family, before going to the Broadmoor for a paid speech in front of the Leadership Program of the Rockies. "He carries an enormous level of influence," says Huckabee about his talk with Dobson, his friend of 14 years. "The contents of it, obviously would remain off the record and confidential, and I'm sure you (the media) would respect that, actually I know you won't, but I will," joked Huckabee. After his news...

Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee met with conservative Christian leader James Dobson Friday as he vied to pick up the Colorado delegates pledged to Mitt Romney, who dropped out of the race. Huckabee's visit comes two weeks after Dobson endorsed him for president. "Personally it was a great encouragement," Huckabee said of the endorsement. "I think it also was an extraordinary boost for our campaign because Dr. Dobson is seen as such a true national leader when it comes to issues of life, marriage and family." Huckabee is an ordained Baptist minister and a former governor of Arkansas. His campaign...

The John McCain camp informed us yesterday that it is mathematically impossible for Mike Huckabee to win the nomination. What they won't say is that McCain stands a good chance of losing the nomination as long as Huckabee stays in the race. Huckabee only has to win half of the remaining delegates to block McCain from the nomination. And even if he falls a few short of that, many of the delegates in McCain's column will be unbound delegates who may in fact vote for anyone they choose on the first ballot... The McCain camp thinks the "mathematically impossible" rhetorical...