Posted on 02/06/2008 5:15:40 AM PST by period end of story
After his disappointing showing in South Carolina, Mike Huckabee was supposed to be a spent force. The former Arkansas governor's triumph in the Iowa caucuses would be relegated to the history books and deemed no more significant than Christian evangelist Pat Robertson's defeat of George H.W. Bush in the Hawkeye State two decades before.
But Huckabee stormed back into the race yesterday with wins not just in his home state of Arkansas but also in Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia and West Virginia, complicating the race for the Republican nomination all over again.
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who had expected to emerge from Super Tuesday with the nomination virtually locked up, was left facing still more questions about his ability to win in deep red Republican states. Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney was left wondering why he could not win the conservative votes McCain was losing.
"Sometimes one small, smooth stone is more effective than a suit of armor," Huckabee told cheering supporters in Little Rock. "We're still on our feet, and much to the amazement of many, we're getting there, folks, we're getting there."
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Huckabee is a candidate in his own rights. He’s beating Romney.
When is the media going to quit shoving McCain and Mitt down our throats, and recognize that Huckabee has garnered support from his voters.
Yes, and no.
Huckabee is in third. He also gets plenty of play in the media.
I urged people to vote for Huckabee in states where he was strong yesterday to defeat McCain but still consider Huck a McCain front and not a candidate of his own.
Huck spent a whole day in a state he had no chance of winning last Saturday (Massachusetts). No other reason than to be an attack dog for McCain. McCain ran commercials and came into the state on Sunday hoping to beat Romney in his home state.
Until Huckabee attacks McCain as strongly as he has attacked Romney, I have little faith in him as a legitimate candidate in his own right.
Huckster can’t win on his own. He needs his lover McCain to toss him some bones. Huck stands for Loser (especially that family of his).
I dont even like him, but I wonder if he’s better then Romney? I know I’d rather have him then McCain, but I’d rather have elective roid surgury then McCain so that’s not saying much.
I’ll probably join the rEVOLution just to be out of the mainstream.
The media bought into Romney's "two-man race" thing lock stock and barrel.
If the media wasn't dismissing Huckabee he would have done even better.
After all, the majority of Romney's support on Super Tuesday was just anti-McCain voters who didn't even support Mitt.
I doubt that.
> Huckabee is a candidate in his own rights. He’s beating Romney.
Really? Delegate count as of Wednesday morning is:
Romney - 207
Hucklebee - 139
Huckabee is a regional candidate with little appeal outside of his base of southerners and evangelicals.
He’s a socialist, an intolerant theocrat, and wishes to rewrite the constitution to reflect Biblical law. Politics is no place for a clergyman, period.
He needs to get out of the race because thanks to him we’ll end up with McCain. But no one can tell you know-it-all socons anything.
I'll say one thing for Huck. He's spread his message out there better than Romney has, for some reason. At least in the sense that he's received the support he has thus far.
Romney needs to get out. The only primaries he won yesterday were Utah and Mass. The rest of his states were small caucus states that nobody challenged him in. If you count total votes cast yesterday, Mc Cain was first, but Huckabee was second. Looking down the road, I don’t see where Romney goes from here.
Then Mitt too, must leave. Mitt was an LDS Bishop and Stake President. A Stake President is much more influential than a simple minister.
Huck’s had his day. He can get two more states, Louisiana and Mississippi. That’s it.
Romney can pick up a couple as well, but this is now McCain’s race.
Yep.
And a big chunk of those states have already voted, leaving the Huckster nowhere to go but down.
And those states are ones that would give their electoral votes to the GOP if it nominated Osama bin Laden, making him useless as a VP or other supporting position during the general campaign.
I would rather see Huckabee leave. However, Romney did indeed fail to garner the support he needed to stay realistically viable.
McCain got the job done, and who knows, he may even become Prez.
I agree with that except I really don’t see Romney picking up anything more of any consequence. He might win a caucus or two, but that’s about it. I think Huck will leave only after Romney does.
But then Fred Thompson and Duncan Hunter dropped out of the race, leaving conservatives disillusioned and split more than ever.
There, fixed it.
Oh Please! Now he's comparing himself to David...wonder who Goliath is?
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