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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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.
Mr. niteowl77
Washington state has a proud history of vote-rigging. I don’t blame Huckabee for making this move.
WHAT?!?!? .... 13,475
That is the real scandal. Only 13,475 GOP primary voters in washington?!?!?
WHAT?!?!? .... 13,475
That is the real scandal. Only 13,475 GOP primary voters in washington?!?!?
This wasn’t a primary. The primary isn’t held until the 19th. This was a precinct caucus meetings in all the counties to select delegates to go to the county conventions. There were no national GOP Convention delegates selected at these precinct caucuses as I understand it.
49% of our delegates are decided at the caucuses. 51% are decided on the Feb. 19 primary.
Thanks for the clarification.
... Likewise, the better the Huckster does, the more likely McCain will be to pick him.
Thank you.
I had come to the same conclusion: I am also determined NOT to vote for McCain OR Huckabee.
You explain very well while this seemingly 'wasted' vote is the best vote for conservatives - it sends a message to McCain but does not give Huckabee the platform to appropriate 'conservative support' for his big-Govt nanny-state populism brand of 'conservatism'.
“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.”
Another irony: McCain would have been not too different from Bush on things except spending, and right about now a different Bush - Jeb - would be tanned, rested and ready for the Presidency.
The smarter and more conservative one ... kind of like Romney (who’d in turn get no notice Jeb Bush were around, and Fred Thompson would also be unneeded if George Allen was around too to be contender).
In the end, this was McCain’s own fault for getting a come-uppance from saying rude things about Christian conservative leaders in 2000. History has a way of turning on a dime.
ahhh, George Allen. That guy must still be kicking himself for losing that Senate race to Jim Webb. He’d have locked the nomination by now if he was in it.
Sore Looserman Huckabee can suck on the cauci results.
He lost.
Now he is taking on McCain awe and after all the lovey dovey BS he has had to say about how wonderful it is to compete with McCain as he is such a gentlemen.
I wish John Wayne could step in and knock them both off their horses. heh heh
I think the election is rigged.
Try reading something besides pro-Huckabee propaganda. Huckabee lies.
Rush Limbaugh talks about Huckabee’s record frequently, and he hasn’t fooled Rush, he sees through him like glass instead of looking at him through rose-colored glasses. Huckabee is a pro-life Rino, he’s ok on gun issues for now but things go to Huck’s head, he could change on a dime. Like when he lost all that weight and started trying to cram fat and sugar taxes and healthy life style health-nazi crap down our throats. I liked the old fat Mike better, but that’s probably because I didn’t really know him then. You should read some of the comments he’s made recently in Rush’s news letter, fairly undistinguishable from the dems most of the time. Maybe they’re up on Rush’s website, I don’t know. Huckabee is no conservative, I don’t care how good his speech was at the conservative convention, talk is cheap.
WE don’t have a candidate, period. Turn out has been pretty bad for all the primary elections for us. We are stuck with two big time losers and we are so done for. If we put one of these Rinos or God forbid both of them on the ticket we are screwed.
I agree with your premise, that’s why I try to let everyone know about Huckabee, I worry that he will be the VP to Mc Cain. The only attractive thing about Mc Cain at this point is his age and sickly health. People who hate Mc Cain so much don’t seem to realize that Huckabee and Mc Cain are the same on most every issue. If Mc cain should die or become too sick to carry on in his presidency then Mc Cain-light(Huckabee) steps in. I kind of like it that Huckabee and Mc Cain may now start fighting against each other now instead of working in collusion. Hopefully Huckabee will piss Mc Cain off and he’ll not consider Huckabee for VP.
My God. King County's Dean Logan is in LA now. This should have all gone away. :-)
I agree. This makes the GOP look corrupt, and we need to show that we don’t tolerate corruption.
Gregoire managaged to pull voting ballots from the stomach of a shark to help her steal the election.
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