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Huckabee frees delegates, supports McCain (Breaking Now)
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Posted on 05/06/2008 6:45:04 AM PDT by mnehring

Former Arkansas Gov. and GOP presidential contender Mike Huckabee has released the

Huckabee encouraged the six delegates he won to vote for Republican presumptive presidential nominee John McCain, said Gary Jones, the chairman of the Oklahoma Republican Party.

Jones said Monday he has contacted Huckabee's delegates and "all but one” of them said they would vote for McCain.

The other delegate is going to vote for U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, who is continuing his presidential bid despite dropping out of recent primaries.

If that holds true, 40 of Oklahoma's 41 GOP votes to be cast during the Republican National Convention in September will be for McCain, a U.S. senator from Arizona, Jones said. Paul, who did not win a delegate during Oklahoma's Feb. 5 presidential primary, would get one vote.

McCain earned 23 delegates for winning Oklahoma's primary, and nine other delegates for winning three congressional districts.

Huckabee finished second in the primary, but earned six delegates for winning two congressional districts.

Oklahoma has three additional delegates — Jones and two national committee members — who are committed to McCain.

Michael McNutt, Capitol Bureau


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: huckabee; mccain; mnehrlinghatespaul; paulians; wellhangmydog
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To: Dixie Yooper

How much you bet that the Ron Paul delegate was always going to vote Paul even when seated for Huckabee?


61 posted on 05/06/2008 7:59:21 AM PDT by weegee (Just say NO to Marxism.)
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To: RockinRight
All Huck does is reel in a few Bible-thumper types. Romney would reel them in but also add more fiscal and immigration cred to the ticket - a stronger running mate.

Romney is too much of a stereotypical politician. He bores the heck out of most people who are actually interested in politics. Imagine how bad he'd be with politically cluelesss people. McCain should go for new blood such as Mark Sanford or Bobby Jindal.

62 posted on 05/06/2008 8:03:50 AM PDT by jmc813 (Eek!)
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To: cake_crumb
He’s been traveling with McCain, bucking for the VP spot (IMO). Maybe he’s going to get it.

i hope not... Huckabee on the ticket could only make me even less excited about voting for McCain... honestly, i can't see it happening...

63 posted on 05/06/2008 8:16:04 AM PDT by latina4dubya
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To: weegee

If Ron Paul seats enough of his (people) at the convention, they could control everything but the nomination including what defines the National Republican Party.


64 posted on 05/06/2008 8:20:29 AM PDT by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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To: mnehrling

I don’t own any of the GTA games...but two of my sons in law do and I play theirs sometimes. Makes me feel guilty as hell, but there’s a whole morbid fascination thing going there.


65 posted on 05/06/2008 8:23:32 AM PDT by cake_crumb (Obama's bus needs a lift kit just to clear all the bodies!)
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To: weegee; Dixie Yooper

“How much you bet that the Ron Paul delegate was always going to vote Paul even when seated for Huckabee?”

That is a safe bet. Back in February when WV selected early delegates, Huckabee supporters cut a round 1 deal with Paul supporters to prevent Romney from winning all of the delegates. In WV, it is winner take all. Essentially everyone pooled their votes to keep Mitt from winning all of WV’s delegates. Huckabee won over an irate Romney. Paul was supposed to get 2 delegates going into the convention. The deal was made very public in the news. Paul is entitled to those 2 delegates.

In other news, the WV primary is next Tuesday and Paul is still on the ballot. And yes, I know that WV’s way of doing this is screwed up.


66 posted on 05/06/2008 8:29:13 AM PDT by FreeInWV
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To: cake_crumb
Maybe he’s going to get it....Hopefully he won't.
67 posted on 05/06/2008 8:29:44 AM PDT by top 2 toe red ("Cackling hillary...makes her sound like she is mentally-illary." Jimmy Kimmel)
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To: jmc813

McCain’s proble is that, other than a few delusional mccainiacs, NOBODY is voting FOR McCain. McCain is the stuffed shirt place holder for the AGAINST HILLARY and the AGAINST OBAMA votes.

McCain brings NOTHING to the leadership table.

McCain is for LaRaza so he brings NOTHING to national security
McCain is for AMNESTY so he brings NOTHING to immigration law
McCain is for homosexual marriage (or indifferent per Vanity Fair Interview) so he brings nothing to the social issues.
McCain thinks GWBush Judge picks were too conservative and he was part of the Gang of 14 so he brings nothing to judge picks.

and on
and on

Is he better? sure he is a beter DEMOCRAT senator than the other DEMOCRAT senators running for president. But that is just arguing over the type of manure we are going to have address in the next four years.

If McCain REALLY wanted to mess with the DNC and the DBM he should let it leak that he is CONSIDERING Rush Limbaugh as a VP. (just for fun) It would be a freak out fest for a day or two.


68 posted on 05/06/2008 8:30:33 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: All

Recent VP picks are almost always about EVs or some very pure perspective on “being ready on day one to take the helm.”

1) Carter Mondale was Carter needing to combat Ford in the northern/midwest’s EVs, knowing Ford would carry Michigan.

2) Kennedy/LBJ was about Texas EVs.

3) Kerry/Edwards was an attempt to grab NC’s EVs

4) Dukakis/Bentson was an attempt at Texas EVs, following the JFK Mass/Texas approach.

5) Bush I/Quayle was about some erroneous polling showing that Indiana’s EVs were at risk and thinking that the Midwest EVs would warm to Quayle.

6) Mondale/Ferraro was clearly a try for women, but more importantly, NY’s EVs.

7) Bush/Cheney and Gore/Lieberman were the instances of going for a selection that was not tactical pure and “ready on day one”.

Point being, the selection is generally not ideological. EVs trump “shoring up the base”. In an environment where Iraq victory is in the balance, USSC justices are in the balance and some moderation in the 2010 Dem tax increases are in the balance, there is no real question about where one must be. With that true, tactics become predominant, and so EVs do.

In general a grab for Minnesota’s EVs with Pawlenty makes sense. Romney’s ability to deliver Michigan may also matter. The ability to possibly grab a blue state far outweighs all else given that Colorado is polling blue.


69 posted on 05/06/2008 8:30:33 AM PDT by Owen
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To: MARTIAL MONK
A strange and exotic land yet to be penetrated by civilization.

...a land that produces horrible Presidential candidates that just will not go away...ever!

70 posted on 05/06/2008 8:34:00 AM PDT by top 2 toe red ("Cackling hillary...makes her sound like she is mentally-illary." Jimmy Kimmel)
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To: RockinRight

I agree.


71 posted on 05/06/2008 8:34:45 AM PDT by top 2 toe red ("Cackling hillary...makes her sound like she is mentally-illary." Jimmy Kimmel)
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To: mnehrling

I think Huckabee and McCain were running as a tag team almost from the start - to stop Romney. They never attacked one another during the primary. I think Brownback was in on that as well.


72 posted on 05/06/2008 8:34:51 AM PDT by Darren McCarty (Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in - Michael Corleone)
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To: jmc813
I'll vote for McCain anyway because of SCOTUS, but Jindal's impressed me, and that is extraordinary hard to do with Louisiana statewide politicians which rival Michigan's in ineptness. That takes work.
73 posted on 05/06/2008 8:38:42 AM PDT by Darren McCarty (Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in - Michael Corleone)
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To: longtermmemmory
If McCain REALLY wanted to mess with the DNC and the DBM he should let it leak that he is CONSIDERING Rush Limbaugh as a VP. (just for fun) It would be a freak out fest for a day or two.

 I sure hope that doesn't happen.
There is NO WAY we would have enough popcorn.

74 posted on 05/06/2008 8:57:20 AM PDT by 1035rep
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To: Dixie Yooper

“If Ron Paul seats enough of his (people) at the convention, they could control everything but the nomination including what defines the National Republican Party.”

What you say is true. Nobody denies it. The info below is from http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/05/AR2008050502314.html

‘He is still racking up votes, for one thing, having garnered 16 percent of the vote in Pennsylvania’s Republican primary on April 22. And his supporters are still active at the grass-roots level: GOP officials abruptly canceled the Nevada state convention when it became clear that Paul’s backers outnumbered those for McCain and stood ready to take control of the delegate process.

Paul’s campaign hopes to turn such support into upward of 50 delegates for the party’s national convention in Minneapolis-St. Paul in September, where he is gunning for a speaking slot.

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“If it was just for the presidency, it would have ended a long time ago,” says supporter Tom Martin, 50, a database administrator from State College, Pa. “The idea was to reinvigorate the Republican Party back to its principles and, more than that, to reinvigorate the American people back to its principles.”

Personally, I think that the concept of getting the GOP back to its principles is long overdue.


75 posted on 05/06/2008 9:11:50 AM PDT by FreeInWV
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To: The Spirit Of Allegiance

“What other REMEDIES might Sovereign Citizens have?”

Let me know when you get an answer to that one.


76 posted on 05/06/2008 9:11:56 AM PDT by AuntB (Vote Obama! ..........Because it's hard to blame 'the man' when you are the 'man'.... Wanda Sikes)
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To: RockinRight
"Romney would reel them in but also add more fiscal and immigration cred to the ticket - a stronger running mate.

"Ideologically I’d say Fred Thompson, but I don’t think he’s gonna be the Veep so that’s just a pipe dream."

Excellent assessment. I agree with everything you wrote, except for McCain on the fiscal issues...though he's showing some improvement in that area lately, it's his advisors talking, not him. Otherwise, I concur.

77 posted on 05/06/2008 9:28:33 AM PDT by cake_crumb (Obama's bus needs a lift kit just to clear all the bodies!)
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To: jmc813

Can’t wait for Paul supporters to write-in Paul’s name in the election, and deny McCain the victory.


78 posted on 05/06/2008 9:30:39 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Bipartisanship: Two wolves and the American people deciding what's for dinner)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

You have become the enemy. A bitcon, bitter conservative will elect Obama..... shame


79 posted on 05/06/2008 9:32:10 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . The Bitcons will elect a Democrat by default)
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To: RockinRight
Huckabee would make no sense as a running mate; he'd be a slap in the face of the majority of conservatives. Romney's the insider's bet right now. With his and Carly Fiorino's name being batted around, it seems like the McCain camp really wants to bring someone on who can lend some credibility on economic issues.

I know that normally the VP pick is about delivering a state or patching things up with some faction of the party. However, McCain has a very serious problem in that he is not at all conversant on what will arguably be the most important issue of the election - the economy. In fact, it almost seems at times that he considers such issues beneath him, and that is not going to go over well with the swing voters he's counting on in November.

His campaign desperately needs another face that can speak convincingly on the economy. I think that's going to trump most other considerations when he makes his pick, save that he can't afford anyone who brings a lot of liabilities to the table, as Fiorino would. While McCain and Romney certainly don't seem to get along, the circumstances strongly favor Romney as McCain's running mate right now. After all, no one ever said they had to like each other, and there doesn't seem to be too many out there who fit the bill.

One who does spring to mind, though, is Steve Forbes. Few are as sharp on the economy that he is, and he has really matured as a political speaker since his last runs. His conversion to social conservatism is far enough in the past now that I doubt many values voters will hold it against him, and only political junkies are likely to care that he headed Giuliani's campaign. Furthermore, his "conversions" on social issues and immigration aren't really any more recent than Romney's. His liabilities are that he still seems a bit "geeky" for national office (though he's improved in that area in recent years), and that a half-billionaire who is closely identified with Wall Street on the ticket during a time of perceived economic hardship might turn some voters off.

Now that I think about it, Romney is in many ways Forbes-lite. Forbes might actually be a better pick, since while Romney brings most of the same liabilities to the table (save the "Presidential" look), Forbes is a much more forceful, polished, and credible voice on economic issues. Still, Romney's probably a more likely pick at this point
80 posted on 05/06/2008 9:33:15 AM PDT by The Pack Knight (Duty, Honor, Country.)
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