Posted on 02/09/2008 2:23:18 PM PST by Greg F
Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee easily won the Kansas caucus Saturday, defeating John McCain despite the Senator's vast lead among delegates in the race for the Republican presidential nomination.
With about half of the Kansas precincts reporting, Huckabee is on track to win with 61 percent of the vote, well ahead of McCain's 24 percent and 11 percent for Texas Rep. Ron Paul.
The vote for Huckabee is another sign that McCain has yet to win over the nation's conservative, heartland voters despite having dispatched most of his rivals during the first five weeks of the year.
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Yee Haw, dem der banjoes will be dueling come nightfall!
Way to go, Huck
It’s not in the bag for McCain
Huck says, "Blow it out your ear!"
LOL
Carter, Bush, Clinton, Bush, LBJ
Reagan, Nixon, Ford
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Looks to me like Southern candidates tend to win the Presidency, 5 of the last 8 presidents have claimed their roots in the South (I’ll give it to Bush Jr., but don’t really think of Bush Sr. as a Texan, regardless of his stated residence). 4 out of 6 elected Presidents were southern. Still the slams come out!
FOX news reporting Texas Gov. “Good hair” Perry called Huck asking him to drop out of race to avoid taking votes away from his candidate MCLame.
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Huck’s tough. Everybody else folded their hands and skulked away.
LOL
I’m pulling for Huck
Right now he represents the little guy..
“I’m pulling for Huck
Right now he represents the little guy..”
Yeah, even if you are a convicted rapist or murderer sitting in jail.
I’d vote for a southerner — but not a liberal Dukakkis type who happens to hunt and says he is against abortion.
The vast majority of voters for Huck have no idea of what his record was as governor.
One of the further signs of the crack-up of the conservative movement is the number of elite talking heads who fell for Romney but disdain Huckabee.
See tagline. Huck faces an almost impossible task to get an outright win. But he says he will stay in until he or McCain has enough delegates to win . . . which means the most likely outcome of a successful Huckabee run at this point is a brokered convention. Which is the only remaining chance to nominate a conservative.
I can’t stand either of them, though I dislike the Huckster more than McCain, who is at least a decorated veteran.
Still, it doesn’t hurt to show McCain a little humility. Maybe the Huckster is acting as good lesson from the conservative wing of the party, even if Huckabee isn’t a conservative, either. If he’s perceived as one, the lesson still counts.
And when it comes right down to it, no matter the outcome of this race, we lose. All of us. Some of us just don’t see it yet.
One of the further signs of the crack-up of the conservative movement is the number of elite talking heads who fell for Romney but disdain Huckabee.
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I know, the raps against Huckabee are minor; the raps against Romney are huge. Universal healthcare program by Romney and people say we can’t trust Huck for raising taxes in a state with a Dem legislature (where he seems to have got good results with the spending — unlike Romney who also raised taxes — but without the good results). Huck also fought hard for many years to stop the tax increases and did it well.
You mean like, the “Tax Me More Fund?” Or maybe that his administration saw 50% of welfare recipients reduced and given jobs? Or maybe that he cut taxes 94 times? Or the fact that per capita income rose 50% while he was governor?
Look - why is it that conservatives will point to raising fuel taxes for highways and raising income taxes for education when the old way, property taxes, were ruled unconstitutional by the state’s supreme court, but not to any of his other achievements?
It’s all moot anyway. Even if Huckabee does the impossible and wins the nomination, he’ll never win in states outside of the South. Hillary will destroy him in the general. In fact, the DNC has orders not to attack Huckabee unless he wins the nomination. Now why is that?
Doesn’t Huckabuck look like the Campbell Soup Chef that touts low sodium soups? Time for the dope from Hope to go home. What a PO$!
See tagline. Nothing is moot.
LOL . . . hope Huck wins Louisianna too. Give the elites in the party that stuck us with the McCain train some heartburn.
Gov. Good Hair really wants Huck to withdraw so that he can probably say that it was HIS state which put McLame over the top delegate wise and ensured his nomination.
Braggin’ rights for Gov. Good Hair?
He’ll be looking for job when this term is over and he needs the good graces of McLame to get that job!
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