Posted on 02/04/2008 7:16:46 AM PST by pissant
February 03, 2008 8:18 PM
Sunday, Sunday, Sunday...Those who couldn't make the Monster Truck rally today or the fights last night, there's always the spectacle of politics.
Today on CNN's "Late Edition," while suggesting that "everybody has every right to stay in this race to the very end," Mitt Romney also suggested that, since John McCain and he "came in number one and number two, very close, and he (Mike Huckabee) came in a distant fourth...most people around the country have said, 'OK, it's been narrowed to a two-person race.'"
He also suggested that, as long as Huckabee is in the race, he takes more votes away from him, not from McCain. "We split the more conservative side of the party. Sen. McCain is able to combine the more liberal side of our party." He added, "I would never suggest to Mike Huckabee that he get out. That's for him to decide."
But in Macon, Ga., Huckabee -- clearly itchin' for a fight -- said Romney had suggested "that maybe I should pull out of the race."
Per ABC News' Kevin "Chupkabee" Chupka, Huckabee said, "I thought it was pretty arrogant and presumptuous the other night for him to suggest that, if Ronald Reagan were voting, that he'd be voting for Mitt Romney, and even more arrogant and presumptuous for him to assume that, if people were not voting for me, that they'd be voting for him, and the idea that my voters would go to him is nonsense.
"My voters are voting for me because I have a consistent pro-life record, he doesn't. They are voting for me because I'm strong on the 2nd amendment, and he isn't. ... My voters aren't people who would necessarily gravitate to him, so he needs me to stay in this race, because quite frankly, I'm not sure he's going to get many of the voters who vote for me."
Huckabee added, "For him to suggest that I need to drop out of the race, almost makes it sound like he thinks I'm some troubled company that he can buy and sell, like he did at Bain Capitol. I want to make it real clear he may think he can buy the election, but he doesn't got enough money to buy me, and he certainly doesn't have enough money to do a leveraged buy-out out of my campaign. All he's doing is firing me up and getting me more determined, and I think he's fired up my supporters more than anything has."
He also said that “Mr. Romney has spent about a $100 million to have basically the same number of delegates as I have, and I’ve spent about 7 million. You know, with the business background he has, you’d think by this point, with his Harvard-educated MBA, he’d come to the conclusion that he’s not selling his soap very well, if it takes that kind of money to have no more market share than I’ve got for about a fifteenth of the expenditure. So, I’ve got a suggestion, Mr. Romney, rather than me drop out, why don’t you give it up, and go back to Boston!”
Go Huck!
Has Huckabee ever had a negative word to say about McCain?
Not that I’ve heard.
arrogance, thy name is McCain. think Huck is wearing his VP blinders....
Go Huck!
Nope. And it smells of a back-room dope deal between him and the Great RINO Sell-Out.
I may hold my nose in November for McCain BUT if Hucksterfool is the VP - third party.
The funny thing is I bet McLame passes over him for Veep. I get a feeling McLame will use him then throw him to the curb
Not that I have heard either. Huck is an opportunist jerk. He will be partially responsible if Hillary or Obama get elected. McCain will be torn apart by the press if he gets the nod.
Hucakbee is about 36 hours away from going back to eating fried squirrel full-time.
As is typical with Romney, he says what is the equivalent of “Huckabee should get out” and then denies he said it. No way would I trust him as President.
no, i agree, i don’t think that he will pick him, but you can smell the eagerness on Huck, that he is going to be getting SOMETHING for it.
Why should he? They are identical twins when it comes to liking illegal aliens better than American citizens, micromanaging the war on terror, buying into the global warming hype and shutting down criticism of their sorry records.
Huckabee wants to be McCain’s VP, maybe?
Hellz Yeah! Huckabee 08!
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I won't vote for either one. Both are pro-illegal and pro-amnesty.
Me: Huckabee ‘Self righteous and a socialist’
I agree with him, My vote would would go to Huckaby first, then McCain. A Romney nomination and I vote against Romney and for the Democrat as the lesser of evils.
When will Suckabee realize that he has ZERO chance of winning?
“My vote would would go to Huckaby first, then McCain. A Romney nomination and I vote against Romney and for the Democrat as the lesser of evils.”
Sure, because you are a Democrat anyway. It makes sense.
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