BTW, it’s pretty clear that Huckabee has virtually no support outside of RED states. In other words, I don’t see any way possible for him to win the general election, even if he somehow slides into the nomination.
Mitt has support in both RED and BLUE states, but McCain is clearly more popular. Although the “Winner Takes All” primaries are giving McCain a greater percentage than he actually won (based on votes), McCain is the leading vote getter in both RED and BLUE states. In other words, the delegate apportionment has increased his margin but it hasn’t distorted the will of the voters. They, unfortunately, favor McCain.
Correction: McCain earned LESS THAN 50% of the vote in every RED state except Arizona.
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One thing I noticed was the numbers that voted either Repub or Demo. The number of Dim votes was 2 to 3 times greater in most states. Whatever happens between now and November, Conservatives and Repubs need to excite the voters.
BTW: McCain won’t do it.
I am more interested in supporting leaders that will uphold the principles elucidated in The Declaration of Independence and the impartial Rule of Law, both of which undergird the Constitution. I'm not interested in supporting candidates merely because the "polls say they have the best chance to win". The future of our country is at stake.
Huckabee is a big-government "nanny-stater".
Like *C.S. Lewis, I have nothing but contempt for the contrary ideas of tyrants (calling themselves, "Christians"), whose god encourages them to covet the political power that will enable them to impose their moral conscience on their neighbors.
Mark Steyn on Huckabee: “...Where I part company with Huck’s supporters is in believing he’s any kind of solution. He’s friendlier to the teachers’ unions than any other so-called “cultural conservative” which is why in New Hampshire he’s the first Republican to be endorsed by the NEA. His healthcare pitch is Attack Of The Fifty Foot Nanny, beginning with his nationwide smoking ban. This is, as Jonah Goldberg put it, compassionate conservatism on steroids big paternalistic government that can only enervate even further “our culture.” So Iowa chose to reward, on the Democrat side, a proponent of the conventional secular left, and, on the Republican side, a proponent of a new Christian left. If that’s the choice, this is going to be a long election year."
C.S. Lewis:
"If we must have a tyrant, a robber baron is far better than an inquisitor. The baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity at some point may be sated; and since he dimly knows he is doing wrong he may possibly repent.
But the inquisitor _who mistakes his own cruelty and lust of power and fear for the voice of Heaven_ will torment us infinitely more because he torments us with _the approval of his own conscience_ and his _better impulses appear to him as temptations_.
And since Theocracy is the worst, the nearer any government approaches to Theocracy the worse it will be.
A metaphysic held by the rulers with the force of a religion, is a bad sign.
It forbids them, like the inquisitor, to admit any grain of truth or good in their opponents, it abrogates the ordinary rules of morality, and it gives a seemingly high, super-personal sanction to all the very ordinary human passions by which, like other men, the rulers will frequently be actuated.
In a word, it forbids wholesome doubt. A political programme can never in reality be more than probably right.
We never know all the facts about the present and we can only guess the future.
To attach to a party programme--whose highest claim is to reasonable prudence--the sort of assent which we should reserve for demonstrable theorems, is a kind of intoxication."
~ C.S.Lewis -- (Lewis addresses theocracy - the most potent form of Religious involvement in government - in an essay entitled, "A Reply to Professor Haldane" (75-76). On Sotries. ed. Walter Hooper. Harcort & Brace Co. Orlando, Florida. 1996.)
“Huckabee ... earned 45 (100%) of Georgia delegates despite only winning 35.5% of the vote (the second most distorted race).”
I’m not sure of Georgia’s delegate rules, but I’m pretty sure it has 72 total delegates. The last count I saw had Governor Huckabee with 48 and Senator McCain with 21.
We need one page of these that are fronts and, one page of these for the backs, that we can print and cut, to fill the prepaid envelopes from the RNC and the ACU.
There will be a price to pay for supporting McCain.
We can vote conservative on Senate and House primary seats, and vote for anyone other than McCain on the Presidential seat, including a democrat in the general election.