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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Exactly.
Talk about a fairy tale!
Politics is war. Wishing it wasn’t so won’t change things.
Senator McClinton is corrupt? I’m shocked, shocked I tell ya.
The ones that have to clean spit off of their faces, Newbie, are the ones McCain has spit upon. You have absolutley no comprehension what is going to happen if McCain gets the nomination via conservatives on the one hand and the Dems and their MSM allies on the other.
It reminds me of the line in Star Wars when Vader is about to cut down Obi Wan Kenobi (paraphrasing): "You can strike me down but I will only become more powerful than you can imagine."
Most romney supporters supported someone else first, particularly here on FR. They'll support the next guy too.
I am not a spring chicken and I have seen lots and lots of campaigns and I have NEVER seen a Republican primary like this one. We have deteriorated into what we would expect from RATS. If you think this is acceptable behavior, you’re in the wrong party and remind to never buy a used car from you.
Bingo! I have thought that from the beginning.
Well, then, you were smarter than I was..... or you knew more about Huckster.
The penny didn't drop for me until I saw a photo, one, of Huckabee and Clinton on a podium together at a speech Huckabee gave three years ago or so. Clinton's watching Huck and Slick's got this really evil, Slick Willie look on his face. I thought, "what in hell is Bill Clinton doing in Little Rock listening to a Huckabee speech? What's he doing in Arkansas at all?"
But it still didn't dawn on me until, two, someone figured out that Huckabee is playing spoiler to "help" McCain.....and then I realized that Huck isn't helping McCain, he's helping Hillary -- the Ratmedia are desperate to convince Republicans that McCain is a good matchup against Hillary. And in fact, I'll bet he is not -- old guy, lump on face whispering "cancer, ill-health", thinning hair, grumpy old man.....no, Hillary would not be a weak match for McCain, it would be the other way around.
This is Clinton doing the same thing he used his Ratmedia buddies like Jonathan Alter to do in 1995, which is to convince the GOP to gut themselves by putting up a weak "middle-of-the-road", Yacht-Club, "It's-Bob's-Turn" candidate who would turn off the conservative wing of the GOP and cause them to stay home.
To paraphrase what Bill Clinton once said about Dan Lasater and drugs at Mena airport, Huckabee's candidacy is Clinton's deal.
You go tell us, Newbie.
“Hack is a disgrace to Christians everywhere.”
Agreed
Huck knows full well he is not a viable candidate but he has lied claiming that he is not in the race to help McCain, when he fully is in for that exact reason. Huck is a liar and he is probably doing it for some reason that is destructive to his party and his country. He has no honor.
Now a politican telling the truth 100% of the time is about as likely to happen as it is amongst us commoners, don’tcha reckon?
I'm for Romney, but I probably would have voted for McCain just to keep Clinton or Obama out of office. But this West Virginia thing is so vile I'm contemplating not voting at all.
Has McCain considered how this appears to conservatives? That he's all but stealing votes from Romney and the base of the party? Or does he hope we all have short memories?
If you think this is bad, you should have been around for the 1911 - 1912 primaries.
There is nothing new under the sun.
Sean Hannity just had Newt Gingrich on his show, and tried to get Newt to say Huckabee’s win in West Virginia was because of dirty tricks, and Newt basically said, there weren’t dirty tricks, that’s how things work.
And when Sean tried to get him to say that Huckabee should pull out to give Mitt a better chance, Newt tried to point out that a lot of Huckabee’s supporters would probably go to McCain over Mitt, but it seemed to be falling on deaf ears.
Newt tried to explain to Sean that if he was running for something, and somebody offered to help, he’d take all the help he could get, all day long.
HUCKABEE / HUNTER ‘08
I think a Hillary presidency would be less damaging to conservatism and to the country in the long run than a McCain presidency would. I’m not quite to the point that I could bring myself to actually vote for her, but I absolutely will not vote for McCain.
Yeah? So what are you going to say when they knock on your door?
No excuses -- you had every chance to read The Gulag Archipelago, which also described Lenin's and Stalin's long march to power. No excuses -- you've had three chances to turn back the Clintons.
I'm sure the secret policemen will be amused by your refusal to believe that stuff like that exists. Or that it can exist here.
Oh, OK, so then McCain gets a pass on this because he would not be one of the first to do the Right thing?
If I had an opportunity to vote on that Judges nomination I would not have voted her in. Would you have?
Especially compared to President Bush, Rudy, Ronald Reagan, or any man who actually has to get unpopular things done, and gets horrible press for it, never has McCain had a tough time in electoral politics, nor has he ever accomplished a thing, unlike the other men I named.
Nothing even remotely rough and tumble in McCain career as a US Senator, he needs to retire and go home, leaving a spot for unapologetic man with conviction, loyalty and conservative principles.
coulder and rush say if mccain wins nom you all have to follow him and ann off a cliff! LOL
Seriously one of the dumbest comments ever on Free Republic.
Think about it for a bit.
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