Huckabee is no better than McCain. He may not be worse, but he isn’t better.
Senator McCain authored McCain-Feingold’s immoral and blatantly unconstitutional restrictions on political free speech, as well as the McCain-Kennedy amnesty bill for illegal aliens. He was one of the “Keating Five” caught up in the ethics scandal of 1989. He supports embryonic stem cell research and opposes a Marriage Protection Amendment to prevent our most liberal states from establishing legal definitions of marriage that vary from the historical meaning of the word.
On the Don Imus show in 2006, Senator McCain said, “I would rather have a clean government than one where, quote, ‘First Amendment rights’ are being respected, that has become corrupt. If I had my choice, I’d rather have the clean government.” Senator McCain apparently believes it’s possible for a government to forbid free speech and still be “clean”...
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The drubbing Huckabee would take in the general election would be worse than McCain’s, however.
“He may not be worse, but he isn’t better.”
HILLARY is better than McCain for God’s sake...
there are two killer policies that Republicans are playing with this cycle, Amnesty and Global Warming. Global Warming legislation will kick the economy in the gut or at least put leg-irons on it. Amnesty will legalize many millions of new Democrats and turn us into a UN ruled European socialist society in short order. Huckabee is better than McCain on that one, at least. While he wants to be nice to the ones that are here I don’t think he will move to legalize them and he will do what he can to control the border. McC wants to make Democrat voters out of all the ones that are here now and by extension the many millions more that will flood across the border when Amnesty appears to be close and real. It may even look like the Palestinians taking out the Gaza-Sinai fence but the Mexicans and others won’t just buy some stuff and go home. The Mexican government is quite capable of organizing a Gaza event. If it should happen with the Clintons as president or Obama would they be able to use the military effectively against the invasion? Or would they just smile, knowing that they will rule Aztlan for life.
McCain is worse. I could hold my nose a vote for Huck, but McCain is still a long, long way from the holding the nose phase.
Huckabee is no better than McCain. He may not be worse, but he isn’t better.I agree. And putting aside the argument that it's better to have a demo than a rino and just considering electability and the chances of the R party in November, I think McCain's chances of beating Obama are less than 50-50 but I think Huckabee's chances of beating Obama are less than 1-99.
If Huckabee were to win the R nomination (an event which I think is a 5-95 losing bet), then he would certainly get creamed in November.
McCain might get creamed too. But it's not as certain. He does have that lil'ole war thing going for him, which could just pull it out for him.
Huckabee has zilch, nada, zip, nothing.
But let him continue soldiering on. I'm not against that. More power to him if he can get some more delegates and have some more voice at the convention.
But the nomination is over. McCain is the nominee.