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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My thoughts exactly. Huckabee and McCain are doing a fine job dismembering what was left of the Republican Party.
60% had rather have Clinton than romney....even more would rather have Clinton than McCain - or Huckabee - why not just pronouce a pox on all three of them and be done with it?
The Romeny supporters no more want to “settle for” McCain or Huck than you want to “settle for” Romney.
It really doesn’t do any good to rant at a Romney supporter for detesting the other two options, than it would to them any good to rant at you.
BBBZZZZZZT!
You lose!
Next time read what I post and not whatever bias you are projecting.
I Do NOT support Mitt Romney OR Mike Huckabee OR John McCain.
I want us to nominate a REAL Reagan Conservative AT a Brokered Convention.
They ALL SUCK!
And the whining about “CO-LOOSE-On” is laughable...
Putting the most favorable spin on your outcome by putting a bad spin on your opponents actions...is crying?
Aren’t you part of the crowd telling Romney’s crowd to accept that it’s “just politics”?
Isn’t this statement “just politics” as well?
Or is it only whining when the other side is doing it?
Let me reiterate. Yes, I sided with the other 53 US Republican Senators in voting for confirmation.
The two against, Jesse Helms and Smith from NH.
“I want us to nominate a REAL Reagan Conservative AT a Brokered Convention.”
And who, pray tell, is that?
The tone and the language about secret backroom beltway deals are both way over the top. Politics ain't beanbag.
Aren’t you part of the crowd telling Romney’s crowd to accept that it’s “just politics”?
That was the standard response from Team Willard earlier in the season...that and "politics ain't beanbag." Now that shoe is on the other foot and they're wincing.
Then the voters are superfluous and their time is being wasted in voting for electors.
The state just needs to appoint electors who will vote for whom they wish and stop wasting the voters time.
Oh, give it up.
This is politics. I don’t like McCain. I don’t like Huckabee. I don’t like Romney. I will end up voting for one of them nonetheless.
This was a perfectly fair and very intelligent maneuver on the part of the McCain people in WV. I wish they hadn’t thought of it.
Not only irrelevant, but also borderline criminal. Are a large percentage of evangelicals socialists or sheep obeying a socialist clergy? I truly don't understand the mentality of someone who votes for a McCain or a Huckabee both of whom are obvious socialists cross-dressing as conservatives rather than voting for the real deal: Hillary or Obama.
Whatever it is -- the conservative movement is in the toilette and I'd love an analysis from someone smarter than me to explain how it happened.
Knocking out George Allen from Virginia was brilliant. He would have made a wonderful Republican candidate. But the powers that be went berserk over "macaca" as if Allen had committed the crimes of Hitler.
Get the law or party rule changed (move there if necessary).
You won’t believe it, but there are moral people who don’t care to soil themselves in corruption to be considered “smart and clever.” If anything, people who consider filthy brokering to be acceptable and even admired are just indicators of the moral degeneration of our society. For those now applauding unethical behavior, beware, for it will come to no good.
Same here, just voted. Ron Paul (sponsored by Soros) was in on the game too....
Instead I find myself asking: "if Ron Paul, who is being openly funded by Soros, and now is working for Huck, who apparently is now working for McCain, then how much money is being laundered to those 3 campaigns from the left? And do the 3 of those campaigns have more money than the one of Romney?"
It's appearing more and more to be: Romney's MILLIONS against Soros's BILLIONS!
Spot on...RINO vs. 3 liberals...what a choice!
Oh well, McInsane made it clearer today and last week if nothing else!
Mark Sanford, SC.
It was always a shaky coalition, because, as you can even see by many threads on FR, some people care only about one issue— if that issue went away, why bother with the coalition?
So... conservatives need to figure out with whom they will form coalitions in order to get things done. Conservatives have options in the future. The evangelicals one-issuers? No one will want them.
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