Posted on 02/18/2008 4:40:39 PM PST by Man50D
To: Sen. John McCain
A Republican debate was scheduled to take place on February 28th, 2008. It was to be sponsored by the Ohio Republican Party. This debate has since been mysteriously cancelled. A rush to judgment has ensued following the Super Tuesday elections on February 5th in which more than 21 states held primaries or caucuses. Sen. John McCain gained an enormous advantage and squeezed out Gov. Mitt Romney. Gov. Mike Huckabee was left standing as the Party’s only other viable candidate.
We believe: 1) Sen. McCain should earn the respect of the Republican base by debating Mike Huckabee in one or more formal Lincoln-Douglas style debates. 2) that failure to publicly engage Gov. Huckabee in debate before March 4th should be considered a gross attempt to grab the nomination without properly demonstrating a viable candidacy.
Thus, we hereby petition Sen. McCain to accept an invitation to debate Mike Huckabee with all due haste and prove or disprove his worthiness.
Sincerely,
The Undersigned
“Sen. McCain should earn the respect of the Republican base by debating Mike Huckabee”
How will this help? Not much of the base cares for Huckabee either.
This part of the base could care less who McCain debates or doesn’t debate.
Hate to say it. I have never been a Huckabee fan...But Huck could make McCain look like the biggest fool on earth.
McCain should never try to out debate a professional gifted speaker like Huck.
McCain is one of the worst speakers ever, he has that whiney voice, nasty attitude etc...
McCain, creep that he is, should decline this.
I wish I had an interest in hearing what either one of them have to say. They are tied for last on the bottom of my list.
I’d lose respect for McCain if he agreed to debate Mr. Huckleberry at this point. Let Huck find some other venue to market himself for future speaking engagements.
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Better now than later.
Good but it doesn’t mean much.
The title is misleading. Besides, who cares what either one of them has to say. This would be a huge waste of time.
Very true. Huck would destroy McCain in a one on one debate. McCain has no sane reason to walk into such a thing with the delegate count being the way it is right now.
I get your joke. Delegate count aside, it sure would not help McCain any, it would just point out how unacceptable he really is.
When it comes to speech, Huck can outdo McLame anytime, and I don’t even have a liking for Huck.
You know, Senators have never been good Presidents or candidates. I reckon that is because more people have been screwed over, in general, with senators, than with governors. This time we have 3 jerks running. No matter what, we end up with a jerk.
“McCain is one of the worst speakers ever, he has that whiney voice, nasty attitude etc...”
I find it simply stunning that this guy won the nomination against a field of candidates, ALL of whom are more personable/presentable than him.
Go away, Huck!
Bread and circuses for the masses!
Why doesn’t Huckabee just debate Ron Paul with an empty chair for McCain?
Or was this debate supposed to be just for Huckabee and McCain?
According to the party elites, it was his turn for his nomination. It's sick, but that's how our nomination process seems to work.
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