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McCain Camp to Huckabee: It’s Over
Fox News ^

Posted on 02/13/2008 8:49:39 AM PST by Scythian

Coming off a sweep in the Potomac Primaries, John McCain’s campaign has a message for Mike Huckabee: It’s over.

The campaign released a memo after McCain won Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia Tuesday night saying the victories make it “mathematically impossible for Governor Huckabee to secure the Republican nomination for president.”

(Excerpt) Read more at youdecide08.foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: huckabee; mccain; potomacprimary; va2008
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To: Jorge

It is not entirely about whether Huckabee can win. It is about whether republicans in the remaining states want McCain as their nominee. They haven’t even voted yet. Until McCain reaches the winning number, their votes should still count. Many voters in those states want another option, they want Huckabee or anyone other than McCain. See Kansas. So just slow up and wait until your candidate actually wins enough support from real GOP voters in the remaining states.


41 posted on 02/13/2008 9:35:38 AM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: FreedomProtector

Don’t forget Mississippi. Conservatives will always vote by larger numbers against McCain. I’m voting against March 4th, or are the GOP shutting the polls down?


42 posted on 02/13/2008 9:35:43 AM PST by Sybeck1 (It's truly bad when your Savior in November is Judas Himself.)
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To: TexasRedeye
Huck will get the job at FEMA or something

and, Huckie, you're doing a heck of a job.

43 posted on 02/13/2008 9:37:06 AM PST by Stentor
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To: AuntB

True, but we see how folks big and little are now “closing ranks”. Pathetic.


44 posted on 02/13/2008 9:37:38 AM PST by pissant (Time for a CONSERVATIVE party)
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past

Those voters will still get to throw away their votes. Causing a brokered convention would be a disaster. Huckabee is playing for the second spot.


45 posted on 02/13/2008 9:38:45 AM PST by newzjunkey (Since W vouches for McCain's conservatism, is Ted Kennedy vouching for W's?)
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To: Scythian
Do you realize that in two years we will have a census and start the reapportionment process again. Dems controlling state legislatures will mean that Republicans will be reapportioned out of more seats? You want conservatives advanced and yet you take the ability for them to have any chance to advance? More safe dem seats means fewer avenues for conservative proponents to make it to Congress.

Do you believe this is in the best interest of our country?

46 posted on 02/13/2008 9:39:32 AM PST by keepitreal
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To: elizabetty
Mike is always doing what is best for Mike.

And McCain is doing whats best for McCain and not for the country. If McCain were the great american he claims to be he'd realize he's unelectable and polarizing in his own party. Time for McCain to do something for the country and stand down.

47 posted on 02/13/2008 9:40:13 AM PST by Invincibly Ignorant
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To: newzjunkey

Causing a brokered convention would not be a disaster. It might reveal the depth of the divide within the party, but it won’t itself create a disaster. In fact it might actually help. It would allow the people to feel more like they chose the candidate themselves, rather than having someone forced on them. If McCain stll emerges as the winner then you have time to sell him to those who distrust him. Making them feel like their vote didn’t even count won’t help bring unity or avoid disaster. It reminds me of that person who said rape victims should just look at the situation and if the rape is inevitable, they should lean back and enjoy it. I DON’T THINK SO!


48 posted on 02/13/2008 10:01:41 AM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: Terrence DoGood
Miss, Texas, Ohio, North Carolina could all go to Huckster.
A brokered convention is still in the realm of realistic probability.

It is actually good for McCain if Huck stays in the race as Obama Hussein and Hildlibeast will suck up ever last media moment.

49 posted on 02/13/2008 10:03:53 AM PST by FreedomProtector
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To: elizabetty
Mike is always doing what is best for Mike.

While McCain's doesn't?
50 posted on 02/13/2008 10:05:57 AM PST by TheLawyerFormerlyKnownAsAl
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To: Scythian

I si what I si, and I know what I si, and it’s over for McCain. Obama will beat him with his air sandwich in a landslide.

To the House I say, work for a conservative house, si.


51 posted on 02/13/2008 10:06:40 AM PST by Tarpon (Ignorance, the most expensive commodity produced by mankind.)
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To: Sybeck1
I am hoping Huckabee (or Hunter) is still on the ballot in North Carolina.

I would never never vote for McCain, Rudy, or Romney in a primary....perhaps in a general election as the lesser of two evils but never in a primary.

52 posted on 02/13/2008 10:07:57 AM PST by FreedomProtector
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To: FreedomProtector
Do you believe this is in the best interest of our country?

Yes, I feel that the country must feel the full force of being ruled in by a liberal government before we can stop this agony. We will rebuild from the ash-heap, and then our history books will remind those what it was like to be lead astray by such folley, psuedo science, and humanism.
53 posted on 02/13/2008 10:08:03 AM PST by Scythian
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To: Scythian

Loser and FOOL.


54 posted on 02/13/2008 10:09:14 AM PST by NYC Republican (Root for Hillary. She's beatable in the GE, Obama's not.)
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To: livius

Huckabee would not make a good VP, let alone a good President. McCain/Thompson ‘08.


55 posted on 02/13/2008 10:09:25 AM PST by tdewey10 (Voting for McCain. We need a non-activist USSC. It's time to end the legal murder that is abortion)
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To: Scythian
I will vote for the other side out of sheer spite because that is not only my right, but because that is the only way real change is going to occur.

Might want to think that through a bit. Things done out of 'sheer spite' generally result in more pain for the person doing it.

56 posted on 02/13/2008 10:10:27 AM PST by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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To: Scythian

Its not over till McLaim throws an election and nobody shows up...


57 posted on 02/13/2008 10:11:24 AM PST by hosepipe (CAUTION: This propaganda is laced with hyperbole....)
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To: samtheman
It actually IS over.

Huckabee certainly has a right to continue running. And I don’t think he’s wrong to do so if that’s what he wants to do.

But in point of fact, it IS over.

Good post. BUT, if it is over, why does McCain feel that he needs to point it out?

58 posted on 02/13/2008 10:11:24 AM PST by Lijahsbubbe
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To: Scythian

As George Burns would famously say at the end of his TV show, “Say goodnight, Gracie.”


59 posted on 02/13/2008 10:12:48 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (If you don't vote, you don't matter.)
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To: Scythian
“I’m pulling a straght Democratic ticket right down the line, federal and local this election if McCain is the nominee...”

What a freaking num nut! With friends like you, who needs eneemies? GROW UP YOU LITTLE BABY!

60 posted on 02/13/2008 10:13:25 AM PST by AmericaUnited
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