What happened in W. Virginia re: Huckabee?
To be honest, I spent most of last election working against Obama that I didn’t pay as much attention to the GOP side as I should have.
Sorry to be so slow to respond but I was on vacation with limited internet.
My memory is a bit fuzzy but when the West Virginia state GOP convention met to determine which candidate would get their delegates to the national convention, there were three viable options left - McCain, Romney and Huckabee. McCain was not the assured eventual winner at that time but Romney needed a win to stop McCain's momentum. After the first canvas, Romney (who became the one backed by most mainstream conservatives after watching guys like Thompson and Tancredo bow out) had over 40 percent of the delegates but needed 50 percent to carry the state. That's when Huckabee told his delegates to support McCain on the next vote which put McCain over the top and gave him all of West Virginia's delegates. There were rumors of a quid-pro-quo had McCain been elected president.
IMO, we were in bad shape with any of the three remaining (McCain, Romney and Huckabee) but Huckabee's "deal" with McCain told me he wasn't a man of principle - he was simply a politician.
Huckabee, BTW, was on Neal Boortz's show this morning and was still minimizing his role in Clemmons' release, claiming all he did was reduce the sentence that made him eligible for parole, not granting parole itself.
Makes no difference to me. Still can't wash the blood off his hands.