Posted on 02/04/2008 7:16:46 AM PST by pissant
February 03, 2008 8:18 PM
Sunday, Sunday, Sunday...Those who couldn't make the Monster Truck rally today or the fights last night, there's always the spectacle of politics.
Today on CNN's "Late Edition," while suggesting that "everybody has every right to stay in this race to the very end," Mitt Romney also suggested that, since John McCain and he "came in number one and number two, very close, and he (Mike Huckabee) came in a distant fourth...most people around the country have said, 'OK, it's been narrowed to a two-person race.'"
He also suggested that, as long as Huckabee is in the race, he takes more votes away from him, not from McCain. "We split the more conservative side of the party. Sen. McCain is able to combine the more liberal side of our party." He added, "I would never suggest to Mike Huckabee that he get out. That's for him to decide."
But in Macon, Ga., Huckabee -- clearly itchin' for a fight -- said Romney had suggested "that maybe I should pull out of the race."
Per ABC News' Kevin "Chupkabee" Chupka, Huckabee said, "I thought it was pretty arrogant and presumptuous the other night for him to suggest that, if Ronald Reagan were voting, that he'd be voting for Mitt Romney, and even more arrogant and presumptuous for him to assume that, if people were not voting for me, that they'd be voting for him, and the idea that my voters would go to him is nonsense.
"My voters are voting for me because I have a consistent pro-life record, he doesn't. They are voting for me because I'm strong on the 2nd amendment, and he isn't. ... My voters aren't people who would necessarily gravitate to him, so he needs me to stay in this race, because quite frankly, I'm not sure he's going to get many of the voters who vote for me."
Huckabee added, "For him to suggest that I need to drop out of the race, almost makes it sound like he thinks I'm some troubled company that he can buy and sell, like he did at Bain Capitol. I want to make it real clear he may think he can buy the election, but he doesn't got enough money to buy me, and he certainly doesn't have enough money to do a leveraged buy-out out of my campaign. All he's doing is firing me up and getting me more determined, and I think he's fired up my supporters more than anything has."
He also said that “Mr. Romney has spent about a $100 million to have basically the same number of delegates as I have, and I’ve spent about 7 million. You know, with the business background he has, you’d think by this point, with his Harvard-educated MBA, he’d come to the conclusion that he’s not selling his soap very well, if it takes that kind of money to have no more market share than I’ve got for about a fifteenth of the expenditure. So, I’ve got a suggestion, Mr. Romney, rather than me drop out, why don’t you give it up, and go back to Boston!”
Go Huck!
Has Huckabee ever had a negative word to say about McCain?
Not that I’ve heard.
arrogance, thy name is McCain. think Huck is wearing his VP blinders....
Go Huck!
Nope. And it smells of a back-room dope deal between him and the Great RINO Sell-Out.
I may hold my nose in November for McCain BUT if Hucksterfool is the VP - third party.
The funny thing is I bet McLame passes over him for Veep. I get a feeling McLame will use him then throw him to the curb
Not that I have heard either. Huck is an opportunist jerk. He will be partially responsible if Hillary or Obama get elected. McCain will be torn apart by the press if he gets the nod.
Hucakbee is about 36 hours away from going back to eating fried squirrel full-time.
As is typical with Romney, he says what is the equivalent of “Huckabee should get out” and then denies he said it. No way would I trust him as President.
no, i agree, i don’t think that he will pick him, but you can smell the eagerness on Huck, that he is going to be getting SOMETHING for it.
Why should he? They are identical twins when it comes to liking illegal aliens better than American citizens, micromanaging the war on terror, buying into the global warming hype and shutting down criticism of their sorry records.
Huckabee wants to be McCain’s VP, maybe?
Hellz Yeah! Huckabee 08!
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I won't vote for either one. Both are pro-illegal and pro-amnesty.
Me: Huckabee ‘Self righteous and a socialist’
I agree with him, My vote would would go to Huckaby first, then McCain. A Romney nomination and I vote against Romney and for the Democrat as the lesser of evils.
When will Suckabee realize that he has ZERO chance of winning?
“My vote would would go to Huckaby first, then McCain. A Romney nomination and I vote against Romney and for the Democrat as the lesser of evils.”
Sure, because you are a Democrat anyway. It makes sense.
Someone please show me a candidate from either party who is not Arrogant!!!!!!! Some would choose to use the word “Confident” as opposed to the word “Arrogant” when describing any one of these candidates.
Huckabee is conservative. Romney is whatever he needs to be to win.
He is spliting the party and knows it. Talk about arrogance. I’m over the Hukster.
OMG...the Huckster is the most obnoxious, arrogant guy to have entered the race. He presumes the R next to him name means people will think he is actually a Republican.
A VOTE FOR HUCK IS A VOTE FOR MCAMNESTY
Projection, only projection.
He does - He’s been promised a nice present for ruining the party.
Huckabilly is no conservative. He’s a Bill Clinton without the charisma.
Huckabilly ain’t no conservative. Yeeeee hawwww!
moderate_conservative??????
NO SUCH THING.
Maybe you should call yourself:
little_bit_pregnant
There, fixed your name.
“Go Huck!”
Yes, go home and solicit more wedding gifts.
Huckabee’s role as McCain’s pit bull should be obvious even to the mentally challenged.
I doubt Huckabee leaves soon. If Mike Huckabee can accumulate a couple of hundred delegates, he possibly becomes the kingmaker. He will be the most powerful man in Minneapolis. Romney and McCain will come groveling to him in order to secure the nomination. He will have serious leverage to get his demands met. That might be the VP slot or it might be some voice in policy issues which is good for social conservatives because Huckabee is the only true social conservative in the race.
I want Huckabee in the race to increase the possibility of a brokered convention so we might have a better choice than the two dudes of McCain and Romney.
Is Huckabee doing this for his own ego? In a large part. However, both Romney and McCain are doing it for exactly the same reason. Of the three, Huckabee is the only one who seems to have real passion about any of the issues.
Huckabee is what he is. The others are whatever the moment calls for. I agree.
Huckabee seems like a decent guy. What can’t he see how utterly monstrous McCain is?
Well said!
Why can’t the majority of Republicans see what McCain is, for that matter!
Preachy boy is acting like McAmnesty’s hatchetman and stooge.
Romney made his own fortune - how has Huckabee done in private business? (and McCain)
The only way they compare is that they were both governors - one state arguably with a lot more complex issues than the other. And what has McCain proven he can run?
Seems to me that it isn’t Romney who is arrogant and presumptuous....Huckabee is just jealous.
A new guy around here shilling for McCain is also cheering the McCain cheer boy Huck.
Is it any wonder?
I will take ‘Arrogant and Presumptuous’over Lying Liberal Hypocrite every time.
Huck went to bible school and McCain finished near the bottom of his class at the Naval Academy and was only there because of his daddy. He’s only in Congress because of his sugar mama’s wealth.
And without the easy lies to the Supreme Court? Huckabee has no charisma — but he does have principles and he stands by them whether the populus agrees with them or not. Bill Clinton’s “charm” wears thin very quickly. Not liking Huckabee is one thing -— calling him a “Bill Clinton” is entirely another.
Hey Huckabee
Luke 6:41-42
After all the personal attacks from the Baptist preacher lately, I know I will never vote for Huck, and I will think twice before I ever again enter a Baptist church!
Huck is just giving Jesus a bad name. Nothing new.
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