All Huckabee needs to do first, is to prevent a first ballot victory by McCain.
Karl Rove’s whiteboarding on Hannity & Colmes “conveniently” ignored that.
Karl Rove’s whiteboarding on Hannity & Colmes “conveniently” ignored that.”
By my count there’s 1041 outstanding delegates, not counting the 150+ superdelegates (not sure if DC, Guam, etc. get those). Of those McCain only needs 371 delegates to win on a first vote.
What makes you think Huckabee has any shot of stopping McCain from getting that many? Even if every Romney voter switched to Huckabee (and I would be surprised if even half did) McCain would still get enough delegate to win.
And what makes you think if McCain didn’t get enough votes on the first ballot that he wouldn’t still eventually get it? He may have been a lot friendlier with Huckabee than Romney so far, but Romney has done the honorable thing and dropped out. If Huckabee doesn’t quit till the convention the ones making the deal will be Romney and McCain.