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Playing Hardball In West Virginia
Captain's Quarters ^ | Feb. 05, 2008 | Ed Morrissey

Posted on 02/05/2008 2:12:01 PM PST by jdm

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To: jdm
Isn’t this the kind of Washington Insider junk McLame was supposed to be running AGAINST!!

I WILL SIT HOME DURING THE NATIONAL ELECTION. HOW IS THAT FOR OLD FASHIONED POLITICS. MCLAME CANNOT BE TRUSTED. HE WILL DESTROY THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. IF ELECTED HE WILL NOT APPOINT CONSERVATIVE JUDGES.

21 posted on 02/05/2008 2:31:28 PM PST by oiler (Reagan Republicans Unite!!!!! "Not gonna forget. Not gonna forgive." Hunter/Tancredo 2012)
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To: levotb

I confess I was thinking in terms of the daily cycle of news stories, and the things that the MSM like to stress.

I never watch TV either, so I don’t know what they’re saying about it now. I was just speculating that it would be very unusual for them to report it on the evening news, or in the frontpage headlines, or anywhere where ordinary people are likely to see it.

And, of course, it’s probably too late to effect the Super Tuesday voting anyway.


22 posted on 02/05/2008 2:31:52 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: jdm
Romney's team wasted no time calling this a "backroom deal":

Politics is a beotch isn't it Mitt? How fair do you think Osama Obama Rodham Bin Laden is going to play? Stop whining and throw that crackback block.

23 posted on 02/05/2008 2:32:09 PM PST by RoadKingSE (How do you know that that light at the end of the tunnel isn't a muzzle flash?)
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To: jdm

A VOTE FOR HUCKABEE IS A VOTE FOR HUCKABEE!!

Huckabee - reliably pro-life, not recently pro-life.

Huckabee - reliably pro 2nd amendment, not recently 2nd amendment.
He understands that it is for self defense, not just hunting and sports.

He is an ardent, articulate supporter of the Fair Tax, and I believe he really “gets it”. It is the best hope on the horizon for giving power back to the people, and waking people up to the stranglehold the current tax system has on the people and the economy.

If DUNCAN HUNTER believes he can be trusted on border/immigration and WOT issues, I would trust Duncan Hunter’s informed, educated judgment after he spent a year getting to know the candidates, more than I would trust the opinion of any of the haters on here.

Don’t let the people who say he can’t be elected give us another self fulfilling prophecy of having to settle for someone we have to HOPE will do what he says. Right now it’s just name recognition, and when most people get to know Mike Huckabee, they like him.

They were both governors, but those people give Romney a pass for not being able to do what he “really” wanted, because he had a Democrat legislature to work with, when Huckabee was able to work successfully with his Democrat legislature.

Every vote for Mike Huckabee on Tuesday will be one more vote to show the establishment and the media that the election can’t be bought and we don’t have to settle for their opinion of “that’s the best we can get”.

HUCKABEE / HUNTER ‘08


24 posted on 02/05/2008 2:32:42 PM PST by redinIllinois (Pro-life, accountant, gun-totin' grandma - multi issue voter)
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To: jdm

after this stunt....Huckabee can NEVER earn my vote.


25 posted on 02/05/2008 2:35:37 PM PST by tioga (Beware: conservative with back to the wall. Proceed with extreme caution.)
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To: JRochelle

I am not a Romney supporter but I don’t like this. Laugh now because a lot of conservatives including myself are going to be sitting this election out.

If there’s going to be a lot of liberal crap going on in the White House at least they’ll be a Democratn there to blame it on.


26 posted on 02/05/2008 2:35:50 PM PST by traderrob6
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To: socialismisinsidious
Thank you Huckster for giving us McCain! If there was any doubt: there is no way this man is a Conservative. He is a populist hucking for McCain and hucking for a job. shameless.

And if McCain is the candidate, say hello to President Obama or President Clinton. Watching that POS at work, I am forced to conclude that the country would be safer with a post-menopausal, socialist Lesbian than a visibly diseased, psychotic RINO (war hero or not).

27 posted on 02/05/2008 2:35:56 PM PST by E. Cartman (Huckabubba will never be president.)
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To: redinIllinois

Hunter is “toast” and any candidate selecting him as VP is toast. Why? Because Hunter couldn’t carry So. Cal, much less No. Cal. Rule #1: If you can’t carry your own state, you’re worthless as a VP prior to Nov...


28 posted on 02/05/2008 2:35:56 PM PST by levotb
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To: jdm

What’s funny is this says to Huckabee and his supporters “you don’t matter”. McCain is willing to give you an entire state because he isn’t afraid of you.


29 posted on 02/05/2008 2:37:22 PM PST by jbwbubba
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To: E. Cartman

E. Cartman

ZOUNDS!! You’ve given me reason to smile on this somewhat black Tuesday...

Listen, McNasty may NOT do so well in the South, and Suckabee’s win/wins will keep him in the race and make it a brokered convention. So, let’s assume it goes to a brokered convention...Is there any way to stop a McNasty/Suckabee deal?


30 posted on 02/05/2008 2:38:46 PM PST by levotb
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To: ARE SOLE

Me and my husband are in total agreement with what you just posted. How about Juan McCain as Secretary of Defense in a Hillary administration?

The GOP is planning on losing this time.

Well as to Huck? He will be relegated to the trash heap of history.


31 posted on 02/05/2008 2:39:32 PM PST by dforest (Don't even ask me to vote for McCain, Rudy, or Huckster.)
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To: redinIllinois
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.

Medved went so far as to say these were McCain people who, realizing their guy wouldn't win the state, threw their votes to Huckabee because they truly believed he would make a better president than Romney.

I know, why do I listen to the nance.

32 posted on 02/05/2008 2:41:23 PM PST by skeeter
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To: ARE SOLE

I think Huckster wants to be the Secretary of Education so he can continue with the liberal indoctrination system and make sure all the illegal aliens get a college education, free medical care and a warm home so they will be ready to learn when they attend the gov’t schools.
Mc#uck and Huck are vile individuals.


33 posted on 02/05/2008 2:42:51 PM PST by caffe (please, no more consensus)
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To: jdm
McCain's pulling stunts to divide conservatives even more. Not surprising, coming from him, I bet he's had this plan all along to divide and conquer.

Problem is, his little scheme will catch up to him now or in November.

34 posted on 02/05/2008 2:43:04 PM PST by Brett66 (Where government advances, and it advances relentlessly , freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
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To: jdm

I don’t know any other GOP caucus but WV that has a % rule. In otherwards, in a straight vote things look better for Romney.


35 posted on 02/05/2008 2:51:07 PM PST by Free Vulcan (No prisoners. No mercy.)
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To: jdm

He is so not there. Are all politicans from Arkansas like him? The people, when I visited there were kind, polite - what made them elect this pretender with delusions of grandeur?/Just Asking - seoul62........


36 posted on 02/05/2008 2:52:15 PM PST by seoul62
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To: jdm
Well, call me a cynical voter. I believe the fix is in.
37 posted on 02/05/2008 2:53:24 PM PST by Ciexyz
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To: redinIllinois

McCain’s bitch can go to hades. I might have had some respect for him if he had the courage to attack the front runner, McCain, at some point in this campaign. Unfortunately, it’s too late for me to see him any different than what he is: a phony proxy for McCain.

But for some reason, the Hucklebee backers all presume that Hucklebee is who we should all be backing because he’s the most conservative person left in the race. The truth is, many of us would have been willing to do such, if we believed Hucklebee was his own man. But it is beyond obvious that he is nothing more than McCain’s attack dog in the primaries. Anyone who takes orders from McCain is not quite right in the head as far as I am concerned.

We will NEVER support McCain.


38 posted on 02/05/2008 2:55:13 PM PST by Diplomat
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To: traderrob6
This may be the one election where I finally write in "Donald Duck". Well, not really. I'll write in the name of my Republican Congressman for the Presidential slot.
39 posted on 02/05/2008 2:57:32 PM PST by Ciexyz
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To: jdm

Funny, when Fred was in the race all the Hucksters screamed he was a stalking horse for McCain and would pull out and endorse him. Fred got out, didn’t endorse McCain and we find out the the Huckster IS the stalking horse for McCain.


40 posted on 02/05/2008 3:02:56 PM PST by Robbin
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