Posted on 02/10/2008 1:35:08 PM PST by Wallaby
Fox News has learned that the Huckabee campaign has called for a “full investigation” into the Washington State Caucus results, and are sending campaign lawyers to the state to help in that pursuit. Ed Rollins, Huckabee campaign chairman, directly challenged Washington State GOP Chairman Luke Essers move in anounncing that John McCain had won the tight race with only 87.2 percent of the votes counted.
” The chairman showed very bad judgement in stopping the voting last night when announcing John McCain had won, when there was less that a 200 vote margin between the two candidates,” Rollins told Fox in an exclusive interview.” You never announce a vote, in my 40 years of politics I have never know anybody to announce a vote count before the vote is counted.”
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And a Highlander hello to you Mr. Piper Man!
Gee Mike, lovefest over?
It might be good to call a talk show about this.
Bill Cunningham is on tonight, and likes Huckabee, although Duncan Hunter was his first choice.
You must call the show right after 10 PM, ET, if you want to have a good chance to get on the show, though.
Cunningham’s # is 1-800-843-2441
MORE MEDIA ATTENTION will force the Washington State GOP to do the right thing.
Huckabee won at least 2 out of 3 primaries, and maybe THREE out of THREE. This might be the start of win after win for Huckabee.
Huckabee CAN win.
Think about it Mikey, Johnny may well ask for his West Virginia delegates back, you keep this up.
[... victory in Kansas was a protest vote. McCain
is going to have to work and spend money to keep
from being humilitated like that again. That may
not be enough if unhappy conservatives discover
they can humiliate McCain by voting for Huckabee...]
That is some orignal theory. You may be right.
Yup, I agree. Didn’t they do the same thing with George Bush in FL or some other state? Disgusting.
[The difference is that Huckabee burned his bridge with Romney supporters with the West Virginia collusion and subsequent lying that no deal took place.]
I think the WV state delegates just took it upon themselves to make a deal with McCain’s 160 state delegates there. Remember that Ron Paul had 118 delegates who actually made a deal with the pro-Huckabee state delegates that they thought would bring 3 national delegates to RP. I thought that latter was a dumb idea at the time (even if the others had the authority to make deals) because the pro-Romney state delegates had offered 5 national delegates and Romney was considered at the time to be more likely than Huckabee to want a brokered convention.
As it turned out, there probably will be no brokered convention because McCain will probably get the nomination in May or June unless the MSM turns against him and describes the Keating 5 scandal, the scandal that Drudge was about to break around Christmas (but forgot about soon after) and the details of a lot of his unconstitutional lawmaking.
The MSM would love nothing better than to cripple the Republican Party by touting McCain as a “maverick” until we make him our nominee...and then reminding us and everyone else of the real reasons why they wouldn’t want him to be President.
so 25.5% is a hard fought win?Ihese people can’t even buy a clue.So 1 in 4 Republican voters support him in a state dominated by Dem leftists.That’s some victory there...
Excellent point, the only thing that would piss off McCain more would be having to pick Romney as VP, so perhaps McCain needs to count his blessings. :o)
On the other hand, I would guess McCain is now going to have to be extremely kind and polite to Romney. He holds yet some delegates that could prove essential to John at some point. Huck and McCain are like watching Jr high boys. Neither are presidential material.
Hence I don't think it's a good idea for conservatives to support him.
At this point it's obvious McCain will be the nominee. The best we can do right now is try to force him to nominate a conservative Veep. That means voting against both the Huckster and McCain in your respective primaries. Vote Thompson, Romney, Hunter, whoever you want. Just don't vote for those two. The smaller the pluralities McCain gets, and the worse the Huckster does, the better.
But if McCain starts cleaning up in these races he won't feel the need to make concessions to conservatives. Likewise, the better the Huckster does, the more likely McCain will be to pick him.
Just say no to McCain and the Huckster, else we'll be facing a nightmare McCain-Huckabee ticket.
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This is an RNC practice effort. The call for the emergency vote fraud team was made to test availability and reaction time.
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/02/08/fred_thompson_backs_mccain.html
Yes, but it was only after Romney dropped out and it became obvious that McCain was going to get the nomination. It's pretty obvious he only did it to unify the party now that the nomination contest is effectively over. Otherwise he wouldn't have waited this long.
I therefore don't see how anyone could hold this endorsement against Thompson, nor do I see how it detracts from his conservative credentials. Even though I'm not sure it's a good idea to support McCain in the general (I'm thinking it may be better for us long-term to lose this election), it's certainly a judgement call about which solid conservatives can honestly agree.
So 1 in 4 Republican voters support him in a state dominated by Dem leftists.That’s some victory there...
What I think this shows is that the people out there aren’t necessarily happy with any of the choices that are left.
But understand this wasn’t a vote by all the caucus goes to each precinct meeting rather it was a survey of those selected to attend the next level [county convention] where they do county level work and select delegates from their county to attend the State Convention in May. It is at the State convention in May that they will choose delegates to the National GOP Convention in Sept. Also there is a primary coming up on the 19th where they will elect 19 delegates to attend the National Convention. This has gotten blown out of proportion to what it really was as I understand it....
“Your point goes from having no merit to being ridiculous given that you are a Huckabee supporter -..”
BINGO!!
I am so totally confused. How can they possibly announce any winner in Washington State, when what I learned was that only 49% of the delegates come from the caucus and 50% come from the primary vote which isn't until Feb 19th? My head is spinning. Voting has become so confusing.
“My light at the end of this tunnel is that Obama is going to win the election and McCain/Huckabee will be put out to pasture.”
Buddy, that’s a pretty not just a light, that’s an oncoming train.
Thompson only endorsed McCain after Romney dropped out and it became clear the McCain has the nomination sowed up:
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/02/08/fred_thompson_backs_mccain.html
He's only trying to unify the party now that the nominating contest is effectively over.
As to Thompson's endorsement of McCain in 2000, that was 8 years ago and McCain was in many ways a different man back then. He hadn't shown his ugly side and come out for an illegal alien amnesty yet. Nor had McCain had a chance to oppose the Bush tax cuts yet. In addition, Bush was spouting that "compassionate" conservative nonsense that made him sound like a leftist, and we all know how that turned out: the single biggest expansion of government since the great society. One of the (few) good things McCain did was vote against Bush's prescription drug giveaway to geezers.
In many ways, the 2000 nominating contest was worse than 2008 for conservatives; this year we had two good choices (Romney and Thompson). In 2000, there were none, and it wasn't at all clear (it still isn't) that Bush was a better choice than McCain.
Oh, and one last thing: if you think the Huckster still has a snowball's chance in hell to get the nomination, I have a bridge to sell you. The only reason the "Christian" socialist is still in it is to get the Veep spot. I pray every day he doesn't.
Are you kidding? the King County Republican Party under Michael Young and Lori Sotelo are as crooked as they come. They regularly violate rules to make sure the party insiders win.
Right now, Sotelo is running the Platform committee with UNELECTED members, and all proceedings done in secret. McCain is their man. They are hopelessly pro-illegal, and will pull every trick in the book to shove him down the throats of legal delegates. Watch for a pre-selected slate of McCain delegates to the National Convention with all other delegates shut out. You can bet the farm on it.
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