[Petronski]

Beth Myers

[SkyPilot]

Ping

[Berlin_Freeper]

Yea some are upset alright! LoL!

[elizabetty]

A delegate from West Virginia is on the phone with Sean telling about the McCain camp pulling their delegates into a room and telling them to vote for Huckabee.

[redinIllinois]

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

[VU4G10]

Before Huckabee’s surprising turnaround in the second round, McCain delegates told FOX News they had been instructed by the campaign to throw their support to Huckabee.

McCain delegate John Vuolo said former Louisiana Gov. Buddy Roemer approached him and other McCain supporters at the convention and told them he had spoken to McCain, and that the best thing to do was to support Huckabee in the hope that Huckabee could beat Romney in this winner-take-all state.

That account could add fuel to Romney’s claim that Huckabee is only undercutting his support base, and that a vote for Huckabee is a vote for McCain. Huckabee has fiercely denied that claim.

Romney Campaign Manager Beth Myers issued a statement after the West Virginia vote blasting McCain.

“Unfortunately, this is what Senator McCain’s inside Washington ways look like: he cut a backroom deal with the tax-and-spend candidate he thought could best stop Governor Romney’s campaign of conservative change.”

[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.

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.

HUCKABEE / HUNTER ‘08

[Berlin_Freeper]

(((HuckaPING!)))

FReepmail me to be on/off the Huckaupset Ping List.

[Domandred]

Huckabee may have gotten the votes in West Virginia, but McCain was the real winner.

[Girlene]

"[T]his is what Senator McCain's inside Washington ways look like: he cut a backroom deal with the tax-and-spend candidate he thought could best stop Governor Romney's campaign of conservative change.



COLLUSION

[Miss Didi]

West Virginia backroom deal proves it once and for all.

RUSH: A Vote for Huckabee Is a Vote for McCain

[donnab]

and McCain is laughing behind Hucks back the whole time.
McCain is using Huck and Huck is so blinded by power hunger that he is going for it. Once McCain gets the nod ...he will be saying Huck who.

[jan in Colorado]

McCain is an expert at back room deals, so this doesn't surprise me one bit. I'm sure this will happen today in other states today as well, so maybe McCain will walk away with enough votes to win the nomination tonight.

I will start my search for a third party candidate to support, once this mess is over!

Thanks for the ping.

[Jeff Head]

It was not a foul. The rules were established before hand and every one knew it. It was shrewd, hard core, hard hitting politics...and though most of us do not like these type of political dealings...it is how the game is played.

Rommney will have to deal with and strategize with this out in the open team tagging in mind. I think Romney can still do well today and believe he will yet do better than they expect.

[DannyTN]

Huckabee wins W. Va., Romney Supporters upset and whining

There fixed it.

[DannyTN]

Huckabee wins W. Va., Romney Supporters upset and whining

There fixed it.

[lmc12]

Yeah, a back room deal that helps both teams! If you win in West Virginia is that a “hollow” victory! Or a “Holler” Victory, like down in the holler!

[MuttTheHoople]

I don't want McCain to be President, but this sort of backroom deal was considered normal for decades. It's only been recently, when both parties had their candidates comfortably nominated by March, that this sort of stuff went out the window.

I prefer Romney because he's the only legitimate candidate who has both executive and business leadership experience. The others (McCain, Obama, and Monica's ex-boyfriend's wife) are career Senators, with huge egos and no leadership experience.

[Moral Hazard]

This is news to me. Why hasn’t anyone posted about this before now?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1965481/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1965478/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1965476/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1965450/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1965420/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1965418/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1965416/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1965405/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1965369/posts

[PJ-Comix]

Yoo! Hoo! Wake up Little Sheba!