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
How much you bet that the Ron Paul delegate was always going to vote Paul even when seated for Huckabee?
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.
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...
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.
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.
“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.
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.
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.
...a land that produces horrible Presidential candidates that just will not go away...ever!
I agree.
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.
I sure hope that doesn't happen.
There is NO WAY we would have enough popcorn.
“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.”
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Personally, I think that the concept of getting the GOP back to its principles is long overdue.
“What other REMEDIES might Sovereign Citizens have?”
Let me know when you get an answer to that one.
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.
Can’t wait for Paul supporters to write-in Paul’s name in the election, and deny McCain the victory.
You have become the enemy. A bitcon, bitter conservative will elect Obama..... shame
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