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Huckabee Wins West Virginia GOP Contest in Second Round, With Help From McCain
http://youdecide08.foxnews.com/2008/02/05/paul-eliminated-wva-gop-convention-voting-ends-without-winner/ ^

Posted on 02/05/2008 2:16:56 PM PST by bw17

before Huckabee’s surprising turnaround in the second round, McCain delegates told FOX News they had been instructed by the campaign to throw their support to Huckabee.

McCain delegate John Vuolo said former Louisiana Gov. Buddy Roemer approached him and other McCain supporters at the convention and told them he had spoken to McCain, and that the best thing to do was to support Huckabee in the hope that Huckabee could beat Romney in this winner-take-all state.

That account could add fuel to Romney’s claim that Huckabee is only undercutting his support base, and that a vote for Huckabee is a vote for McCain. Huckabee has fiercely denied that claim.

Romney Campaign Manager Beth Myers issued a statement after the West Virginia vote blasting McCain.

“Unfortunately, this is what Senator McCain’s inside Washington ways look like: he cut a backroom deal with the tax-and-spend candidate he thought could best stop Governor Romney’s campaign of conservative change.”

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: West Virginia
KEYWORDS: huckabee; mccain; romney; supertuesday; wambulance; wv2008
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1 posted on 02/05/2008 2:17:00 PM PST by bw17
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To: bw17

Huckabee is now exposed as nothing more than a stalking horse for McCain.


2 posted on 02/05/2008 2:18:31 PM PST by TennTuxedo
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To: bw17

Just HOW MANY threads on this are you gonna make??

For the Love !!


3 posted on 02/05/2008 2:18:40 PM PST by RachelFaith (Doing NOTHING... about the illegals already here IS Amnesty !!)
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To: TennTuxedo

Which is why when he wins Alamaba or Georgia and takes delegates away from McCain you will post a retraction vanity thread??


4 posted on 02/05/2008 2:19:40 PM PST by RachelFaith (Doing NOTHING... about the illegals already here IS Amnesty !!)
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To: bw17

The huckster exposed as a true con artist. We need to all hang stray dogs in his honor.


5 posted on 02/05/2008 2:20:35 PM PST by rrrod
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To: RachelFaith

You are not seeing the big picture as to what is going on.


6 posted on 02/05/2008 2:21:29 PM PST by Parley Baer
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To: bw17

It’s a corrupt process, fixed by the media, who have been shilling for McCain and Obama since Day 1.


7 posted on 02/05/2008 2:22:33 PM PST by Tea in the Harbor
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To: RachelFaith; TheLion

This is a much more in-depth discussion of the events that took place.

So quit yer whinin’.


8 posted on 02/05/2008 2:22:40 PM PST by bw17
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To: RachelFaith

Huckabee has as much of a chance to win the nomination as Bob Dole does.


9 posted on 02/05/2008 2:23:16 PM PST by TennTuxedo
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To: bw17

Cute. This is only a preview people.

Pray he doesn’t get into the WH.


10 posted on 02/05/2008 2:24:55 PM PST by Khepri (Fred Thompson, he's a hundred miles away son - READY TO STRIKE!)
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To: bw17

That’s why most people vote after work out here on the left coast!


11 posted on 02/05/2008 2:25:35 PM PST by Chili Girl
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To: rrrod
The huckster exposed as a true con artist.

And an enthusiastic liar.

Regards

12 posted on 02/05/2008 2:25:52 PM PST by ARE SOLE (Agents Ramos and Campean are in prison at this very moment.. (A "Concerned Citizen".)
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To: bw17
That account could add fuel to Romney’s claim that Huckabee is only undercutting his support base, and that a vote for Huckabee is a vote for McCain.

Duh!

13 posted on 02/05/2008 2:26:00 PM PST by syriacus (McCain promised to transfer all Gitmo prisoners to Ft. Leavenworth on his first day as president.)
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To: bw17

This thread looks somehow familiar.

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14 posted on 02/05/2008 2:26:25 PM PST by Moral Hazard (Mitt Romney is the worst Republican candidate, except for the other three.)
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To: TennTuxedo

Karma for Fred in SC


15 posted on 02/05/2008 2:26:41 PM PST by Soliton
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To: bw17
McCain delegate John Vuolo said former Louisiana Gov. Buddy Roemer approached him and other McCain supporters at the convention and told them he had spoken to McCain, and that the best thing to do was to support Huckabee in the hope that Huckabee could beat Romney in this winner-take-all state.

Yes, McCain supporters wanted Romney to lose.

So they switched their votes to Huckabee.

How is that surprising? Do these idiotic Mitt-worshipers really think the McCain supporters would ever support the candidate who has constantly attacked McCain?

16 posted on 02/05/2008 2:28:14 PM PST by JohnnyZ ("Make all the promises you have to" -- Mitt Romney)
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Sean Hannity just had Newt Gingrich on his show, and tried to get Newt to say Huckabee’s win in West Virginia was because of dirty tricks, and Newt basically said, there weren’t dirty tricks, that’s how things work.

And when Sean tried to get him to say that Huckabee should pull out to give Mitt a better chance, Newt tried to point out that a lot of Huckabee’s supporters would probably go to McCain over Mitt, but it seemed to be falling on deaf ears.

HUCKABEE / HUNTER ‘08


17 posted on 02/05/2008 2:28:25 PM PST by redinIllinois (Pro-life, accountant, gun-totin' grandma - multi issue voter)
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To: rrrod
We need to all hang stray dogs in his honor.

Only if Huck will make sure we escape punishment, by firing anyone who might bring charges against us.

18 posted on 02/05/2008 2:28:30 PM PST by syriacus (McCain promised to transfer all Gitmo prisoners to Ft. Leavenworth on his first day as president.)
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To: TennTuxedo

“Huckabee is now exposed as nothing more than a stalking horse for McCain”

and maybe the Veep spot????


19 posted on 02/05/2008 2:30:03 PM PST by elpadre
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To: redinIllinois

Newt Gingrich is another one of those guys who drank the global warming kool-aid.

There is not much that he says anymore that I agree with.


20 posted on 02/05/2008 2:30:44 PM PST by bw17
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