Posted on 01/20/2008 4:48:02 PM PST by Terriergal
One day after a disappointing second place finish in South Carolina, Mike Huckabee got back in the saddle Sunday to party at the ranch of action movie icon Chuck Norris, and repeated a claim by his campaign chairman that Fred Thompson was his biggest barrier to defeating John McCain in the Palmetto State.
Huckabee came a close second to McCain in the seven-man Republican presidential line-up, 33-30 percent. But Thompson took third place with 16 percent, and exit polls showed many of Huckabee’s and Thompson’s supporters shared the same priorities on issues like values, immigration and taxes.
“We obviously wanted and we honestly thought we would win. The fact of Fred Thompson’s being in the race took away some votes that we most likely had. I believe every analyst has looked at it that way, Huckabee said. “The snow pretty much – not only froze the streets of the Greenville-Spartanburg area, but the votes came to a stop when it started snowing. That was an area where we had really looked forward to get a heavy and significant vote margin.”
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OH... and I blame McCain too.
Good.
BOO HOO! WAAAAAH!
So?
Hey, Fred has pissed off Huckleberry.
Way to go Fred, keep up the good work, now piss off Rooty and McCain too.
good grief! Fred is now the new Bush??
Its all Fred’s fault!
“Why not blame Huckabee himself? “
Exactly. BTW, I hope some SC FredHead had the good sense to grab one of Huck’s lying flyers that they plastered on windshields.
You can’t deny that Thompson was hounding him. Think what you want about how it should have turned out, but that doesn’t make Huckabee wrong here. I imagine Thompson is happy about that and if nothing else, he is probably very glad he helped McCain beat Huckabee. Thompson endorsed McCain in 2000 you know. I doubt he sees this as a principled loss. After all, it’s not about him.
Thompson could just as well blame Huckabee. They are appealing to largely the same base, socialist though Huckleberry may be.
Huck is just following the liberal guide book, “blame everyone but himself”.
Go Fred Go, stick it to the slimy little twerp.....Hookerbee delenda est!
Boo Hoo, sounds like a whiny liberal baby. Oh wait, he is.
Stay on him..FRed.
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Notice that he doesn’t blame McCain instead he applauds McCain. Huck hasn’t said a bad word or a word of disagreement with McCain. Yet his campaign crys foul because they said Fred hasnt gone after McCain. And now its all Freds fault some of us think that Huck is a lying loser.
No party registration in SC. McCain and Huckabee got lots of liberal and independent votes. The real conservatives voted for Fred. Now McCain and Huckabee face registered Republicans in Florida and they will not do well here. This race will be between Fred, Mitt, and Rudy. I believe after the debate Thursday things will be in Fred’s favor. I will be voting for Fred! :)
Nope, I don’t think so. Thompson was a real conservative, and Huck’s supporters are only partial conservatives. They would not have gone for Huckabee. The reject his illegal amnesty record....and McCains. They reject the abortion and gun-control records of Romney and Rudy.
Where will we go if Thompson folds?
I think there is no place to go. It’ll be the Dole election all over again. Why get excited about some old fart Rino.
Waaaaaaaa! Go pop some squirrel, Huck.
No reason to get excited over any of the others but Fred.
The party thinks they can just scream “Hillary Clinton!” and we’ll just go vote and donate happily no matter who it is.
No thanks! I’d rather take a short term loss for a long term conservative goal. Maybe that’ll show the 2012 candidates what a real conservative should be like.
Jeeze, huck is so right. I’d be so mad if I were him I’d just quit right now and let fred take votes from mccain and romney instead from now on.
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