All three.
Do the simple math.
You need 1,191 delegates to win.
Right now McCain has 680 Delegates.
Romney has 270
Huckabee has 176.
There are 1254 left to be awarded.
McCain needs 511
Romney needs 921
Huckabee needs 1,015
Even if Romney drops out right now, Huckabee cannot win. He is too far behind in the delegate count. He would need to win almost every single remaining state to win. He cannot do it. He has neither the money, the organization nor the political support to do it. Huckabees campaign is dead. It cannot be saved.
Even for Romney it is an almost impossible long shot but with his money, media support and organization, he has a chance. Not a very good one but his shot is doable. Huckabee doesn’t even have a shot at all.
Perhaps there should be a cage match?
Yes, I am so sick of media (including Mike) telling candidates that they have to drop out. Why? Each of them have spent a fortune and have huge staffs and supporters relying on them. Do not pull the plug until you have to. Besides, we hear McCain’s acceptance of matching funds will leave him poor in the general (unless he cheats on the hallowed McCain-Feingold law).
BROKERED CONVENTION... they all three should step aside!!!
What a politically superficial and pedestrian question.
Perhaps Mike should ask how we got parsed down to such a dismal selection in the first place.
The only way is if McCain does the right thing and bows out of the race, citing McCain-Feingold, McCain-Kennedy, McCain-Leiberman, and the Gang of 14 Betrayal as unforgivable breaches of his oath; abjectly, publically, and thoroughly apologizes for his violation in letter and spirit of the Constitution in those instances; and vigorously endorses a strong conservative candidate (JC Watts, Hunter, Thompson etc), and does so because he acknowledges that his actions, his behaviour, and his backstabbing caused this all. Then we can admire him for being conservative enough to sacrifice his ambition and ego for the good of the country. There is no other rapproachment possible.
Ditto on the D: None of the Above!
All three ... they are all onions.
Once you peel back the layers to find out more what they are about and have been about ... it stinks and makes you cry.
All three ... they are all onions.
Once you peel back the layers to find out more what they are about and have been about ... it stinks and makes you cry.
None. Fight for what you believe. Then get behind whoever wins.
We can’t have Ms. VRWC back in the WH.
None of them.
If Huck steps aside it helps McCain. That might not have been the case a week ago, but that is the case today.
If Romney steps aside it helps Huck, but no amount of help is going to get Huck the votes.
In both cases McCain gets the nomination.
The only way to avoid a McCain nomination is to keep both Huck and Romney in the race and push for a brokered convention. Then work like mad between now and then to keep McCain out.
Huckabee first. He has mastered the Eddie-Haskellian art of appearing angelic as he does mischief, sweetly saying spiteful things, feigning innocence while his method and motive are obviously base. And I say this as one of Romney’s more ardent critics. Huckabee is as far beyond Romney in hypocrisy, as Romney is beyond John Kerry. I could tolerate a Romney presidency, and there’s a chance in a thousand he might actually do something conservative in office. But Huckabee is a snake.
McCain...of course McCain should go. Not saying he’d be bad for America, since he’ll never get that close in November. But if he had any regard for the party (the GOP), he wouldn’t be running. He will take the party down in flames. Our only hope is that he flames out soon enough to replace, like Eagleton.
And by the way, Mike Reagan. Why aren’t YOU running? Ok, you’ve written some boneheaded opinions once every blue moon, but you’re a thousand times better than McRombee.
The voters. And they will.
All 3 should drop out and throw their delegates to Fred. Fred reenters the race and becomes the winner immediately.
Problem solved.
Who is Michael Reagan (I know who he is, btw) that he thinks he has the answers and that one of those answers is for “someone” to drop out.
In the future, we will look back on all this talk of dropping out with deep regret, IMO.
In the next race, if candidates don’t perform spectacularly right out of the gate, they’ll be asked and pressured to drop out.
If you think it is bad now, wait until this sort of thing gains speed.