Posted on 02/05/2008 12:58:25 PM PST by sdnet
Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee enjoys the first victory on Super Tuesday for the Republicans as he takes all 18 delegates in the state of West Virginia, winning 52% of the vote, although rumors abound regarding the McCain campaign's possible instruction to their delegates to switch to his side.
Mitt Romney finished second with 47% of the vote, followed by McCain at 1%.
Rumors are circulating that the McCain campaign instructed their delegates to defect over to Mike Huckabee's side as to avoid a Romney victory. Nationally, McCain is significantly ahead of Huckabee and can afford giving the state's 18 delegates to Huckabee, but certainly not to Romney, who was originally in the lead when polling began in West Virginia by a wide margin and trails McCain nationally by only 17 delegates.
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No, a vote for Huckabee is a vote for McCain!
A grand slam at Denny’s?
Ding dibg ding. Now it is out in the open that is key. How anyone can vote for these two slimes it is beyond me.
The two are in bed together. Hope they are practicing safe sex.
Ding dibg ding. Now it is out in the open that is key. How anyone can vote for these two slimes it is beyond me.
The two are in bed together. Hope they are practicing safe sex.
> Your boy got played. How is he going to face down the
> Chinese or the Mullahs if he gets outmaneuvered by Gomer
> Pyle?
He got played?
Two against one? McCain and Huck combining their votes to defeat Romney. That’s fair play to you?
Hey, I know life isn’t fair.
But I don’t root for cheaters and hucksters.
Laugh now.
You won’t be laughing in November, or for the four years afterwards.
In fact, if by some quirk the geriatric lunatic McCain actually wins in November, you, and all of us, are likely to be sadder than if the Democrat won.
Because McCain will seek with a vengeance to marginalize the conservatives in the Republican party, and he will have no meaninful opposition to seeking that end. He will have the vigorous support of the Democrats, and the Republicans will have to go along with him or risk going against the leadership in their party.
If McCain wins the election, the best outcome for conservatives will be a Democrat president.
How is that so?
Strategery.
With a Democrat president,
1. The Republicans in Congress can oppose a Democrat president without opposing their party leadership.
2. The existing RINO Republican Establishment will be defeated and discredited, giving new momentum to the conservative base.
3. The elections in 2010 will likely see a conservative Republican revival take hold of the Congress.
Those three things WON’T happen under a McCain presidency.
Outmaneuvered & outflanked? Really? What do you think Romney should have done to win this battle? Should he have compromised his principles & cut a deal w/ one of these guys? If so, what kind of a deal do you feel he should have cut? & w/ whom?
Ma’am..
I don’t support McCain..I support Huckabee.
However..I do not support Romney under any circumstances whatsoever.
Romney in my humble opinion, has NO core values that he base’s his philosophy on. He is in my mind, the GOP version of John Kerry...He’s flip flopped on so many of our basic values and beliefs that it amazes me that conservatives on our side “Rush” to defend him...
Huckabee didn't outsmart anyone. McCain, in a rather underhanded move, had his supporters vote for Huckabee, because he knows Huckabee doesn't stand a chance, and he wants to keep Romney from winning the delegates.
Huckabee's "victory" is more of an embarrassment to his candidacy than a victory.
Romney didn't get outsmarted, because there was nothing that he could do to stop this underhanded tactic.
Huckabee is playing the role of spoiler to keep Romney from winning. It appears to be a role that Huckabee is satisfied with if he can't win the nomination himself.
McCain is just scum. The more I see of him, the more he does, the more I hear, the more I loathe him and the possibility that he could be the Republican nominee.
...and when HACKABEE finally pulls out of the race, he will ask his delegates to vote for McInsane.”
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But we won’t. We’ll stay home.
Hey, if you support open borders, a fifty cent tax on gas, closing Gitmo, and a man that openly admits he considered running as a RAT, your a great conservative alright. Go get yourself a midol.
Frankly, I wish Huckabee had run negative, anti-Romney ads. It appears for now more sinister with anti-Mormon whispering attacks by the “Church People for Huckabee”. Far more insidious. And gutless.
Sorry to state the obvious....but McCain is only hated by the radical few of the party...and you guys need to just get over it.
Sad that you’d “take your ball” and go play for the other side.
Glad McCain didn’t do that when he was a POW!
Very important point!
Don’t think so, DRUDGE has it reported on his site, the MOST looked at source of news media going right now.
“Hey, if you support open borders, a fifty cent tax on gas, closing Gitmo, and a man that openly admits he considered running as a RAT, your a great conservative alright. Go get yourself a midol.”
You forgot his support for Algore’s Global Warming scam.
Beat you to it. when we moved back to Alaska, I registered as an Independent. So far, I haven't been sorry. It sure cuts down on the political mail cluttering my mailbox.
>Romney running negative ads
Haven’t seen them. Do they simply state John McCain’s record?
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