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Posted on 02/05/2008 7:03:33 PM PST by maui_hawaii

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To: maui_hawaii
Huck then becomes VP nominee thus giving the McCain ticket...

...and then Hillary becomes president. Bank it. That is what is going to happen. It has been planned all along, and the country has been played for fools.

In fact, we ARE fools.

61 posted on 02/05/2008 7:21:02 PM PST by Semper911 (This is my new tagline. I was sick of my old one.)
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To: tpanther
We now have a better shot than EVER at the ever illusive brokered convention!

Ain't gonna happen,and if it did, McCain would emerge victorious because the GOP big shots that manage and pick the delegates are all for the ost part, supporting McCain.

Hoping that a brokered convention will change this outcome is like hoping for Ronald Reagan to get into the race.

62 posted on 02/05/2008 7:21:10 PM PST by Cold Heat (Mitt....2008 (I have voted))
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To: maui_hawaii
Huckabee on the other hand has the evangelical vote sheerly because of which church he goes to.

Romney won 99% of the vote in Utah.

Worked for Romney

Worked for Huckabee

People vote with their religious beliefs

And their gender

And their race

And their lust

63 posted on 02/05/2008 7:21:45 PM PST by Syncro
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To: outofstyle
BTW, the Evangelicals (as you call them) are the majority of the Republican Party Base. The second largest group are either the Pentecostals or the Catholics ~ and that depends on which state you're in.

Countryclubbers can belong to any church, but they focus on party mechanics, not policy development. Some folks misperceive the countryclubber as a large faction within the Republican party, but they're not ~ they just have a singular interest and that serves to boost the chances they'll be tapped to run for office.

This is how the Republican Party got to be called "The Stupid Party" ~ the countryclubbers have no interest in policy ~ John McCain is a good example of this attitude.

The variation in the Democrat party is that there are clusters of special interests that constitute affinity pressure groups. They provide an inordinate amount of the party infrastructure but few candidates.

Democrats are typified most by existing office holders moving up the chairs to run for higher office. The Republicans actually have non-politicians moving in and out of elective office, and that's something you never see with Democrats.

64 posted on 02/05/2008 7:22:16 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: maui_hawaii
Depending on how the rest of this plays out...when Huck and McCain together have enough delegates combined to put McCain over the top, Huck drops out.

Huck then becomes VP nominee thus giving the McCain ticket an inroad to pro life people and evangelicals.

I think Huck will drop out and "award" his delegates to McCain but he will NOT be the VP choice. He'll be a cabinet post but he won't be the VP. WV assured that.

65 posted on 02/05/2008 7:22:35 PM PST by torchthemummy (There Will Be No McCain Nomination Without Huckabee Running Interference)
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To: ari-freedom

Old and older.


66 posted on 02/05/2008 7:22:38 PM PST by La Enchiladita (I'm on the Mitt-Mobile!!!)
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To: La Enchiladita
"No... either McCain or Huck will betray the other."

They are both dishonest. And they think it doesn't show through. They have stabbed others in the back, so why not do what they already know?

67 posted on 02/05/2008 7:22:39 PM PST by BobS
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To: maui_hawaii

I think that’s what Huck was promised.

I also don’t think he’ll get the VP nod. Strategically he won’t be the best choice and what’s he going to do once he cedes his delegates to McCain?


68 posted on 02/05/2008 7:22:51 PM PST by Hoodlum91 (I support global warming.)
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To: maui_hawaii

You’re right. Wanna bet if it’s either McCain or Huckabee I vote for Obama?


69 posted on 02/05/2008 7:22:51 PM PST by enough_idiocy (Romney/Thompson or Steele '08)
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To: maui_hawaii

It’s only a good bet if McCain doesn’t have a majority without Huckabee. If he needs Huckabee’s delegates, a McCain/Huckabee ticket looks automatic.


70 posted on 02/05/2008 7:22:52 PM PST by devere
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To: Semper911
In fact, we ARE fools.

Ummmmmmmmmm.......Yeah....pretty much.

71 posted on 02/05/2008 7:23:14 PM PST by Cold Heat (Mitt....2008 (I have voted))
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To: Major Matt Mason

B.S. Huckabee no liberal. He’s the most conservative of the three still in the race.


72 posted on 02/05/2008 7:24:16 PM PST by Hugin (Mecca delenda est!)
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To: La Enchiladita

experience matters! and Fred will unite the conservative base that neither Romney nor huckabee can do on their own


73 posted on 02/05/2008 7:24:26 PM PST by ari-freedom
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To: Major Matt Mason

B.S. Huckabee is no liberal. He’s the most conservative of the three still in the race.


74 posted on 02/05/2008 7:24:41 PM PST by Hugin (Mecca delenda est!)
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To: ari-freedom
I don;t buy it. Fred knows McLame left the reservation years ago. I'd lose all respect for Fred if he did that.
75 posted on 02/05/2008 7:24:48 PM PST by AFreeBird (No Romney, No Rudy, No McLame, No Huck, No Paul! Toss the GOP into the ashcan of History.)
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To: Semper911

We’re not fools. Well, at least the vast majority of us here are not fools. We mostly play the role of Cassandra - we see what’s happening, but nobody believes us.


76 posted on 02/05/2008 7:24:55 PM PST by flintsilver7
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To: maui_hawaii

McCain with Colin Powell as VP is a better idea.


77 posted on 02/05/2008 7:25:21 PM PST by Age of Reason
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To: maui_hawaii

Don’t count Fred out. They were very close friends.


78 posted on 02/05/2008 7:27:23 PM PST by Faith-Hope
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To: Reagan79
This is a two person race, and Romney (with all due respect) is not in it.

Funny to read that.

Huckabee a few minutes ago said it is a two man race. And that he is one of them.

I didn't know who he meant, but a TV guy on Fox just said he meant him and McCain.

79 posted on 02/05/2008 7:27:42 PM PST by Syncro
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To: maui_hawaii

I hadn’t clicked what was happening earlier, but I suspect that McCain and Huckster will split any of the states where Mitt has less than an absolute majority. I haven’t seen the details, but it looks like that’s happening from what Drudge has posted so far.

I didn’t see why McCain would make Huck his VP, when he has several other much better known governors who have endorsed him, from bigger states: Florida, Texas, and California in particular.

But if Huckster can give him the delegates to put him over the top, that’s another matter entirely.

Ugh. This is moving rapidly toward Hillary and Obama in the White House.


80 posted on 02/05/2008 7:27:50 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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