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Michael Reagan Asks: Who in the GOP Race Should Step Aside?
Michael Reagan Show ^ | 2/6/08 | Self

Posted on 02/06/2008 4:28:30 PM PST by RadioCirca1970

Mike Reagan on his show is soliciting opinions from the base: who should step aside: Romney? Huckabee? McCain?

Call in and tell Mike--you deserve to be heard.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: huckabee; mccain; reagan; romney; supertuesday; talkradio
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To: Paleo Conservative

>Perhaps there should be a cage match?<

I would pay to see that!


21 posted on 02/06/2008 4:37:01 PM PST by Califreak (Hangin' with Hunter-under the bus "Dread and Circuses")
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To: Jeff Head

Huckabee has been used. McCain’s VP will be Liberman!


22 posted on 02/06/2008 4:37:23 PM PST by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

I say all 4 should stay in. The more they can pull from McCain the better.


23 posted on 02/06/2008 4:37:45 PM PST by CindyDawg
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To: RadioCirca1970

Ditto on the D: None of the Above!


24 posted on 02/06/2008 4:38:22 PM PST by AFreeBird (No Romney, No Rudy, No McLame, No Huck, No Paul! Toss the GOP into the ashcan of History.)
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To: Jeff Head
Huckabee may think he will be McCain's VP, but I do not believe McCain will do so

Huckabee, craves too much attention to ever be considered by McCain.

This is all about John McCain, he's going to chose a waterboy, someone who can't out perform him, unfortunately there will be no shortage of inferior companions.

25 posted on 02/06/2008 4:38:24 PM PST by Kakaze (Exterminate Islamofacism and apologize for nothing.....except not doing it sooner!)
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To: pollywog
Go into a brokered convention then Huckabee will scratch McCain’s back just like McCain did for the Huckster. There is only one way to stop McCain and that is if Romney wins in the count. Right now, with Huckabee in the race, it is not going to happen.
26 posted on 02/06/2008 4:38:33 PM PST by chaos_5 (McStain and Suckabee 2008)
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To: MNJohnnie

Michael resents McCain trading on his fathers name.
He just talked to a guy who says its time to accept mccain as inevitable and for romney supporters to get on board...


27 posted on 02/06/2008 4:38:39 PM PST by RadioCirca1970 (ISLAM and its Adherents ARE the enemy: Teach your kids Before their learn the hard way!)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear
I was wondering if maybe we should just get out of the way.

The Party boys are telling us they can win without us icky right wingers. They got this brilliant “moderation” strategy based on polling data taken over a year before the election.

Maybe we should just get out of the way and let them try it. Fighting all the way to the Convention gives them a fig leaf to hide behind. They will say “Well if you had not made us fight it out, we could of won”

At least that way if they get destroyed with McCain in the General, they will have no one to blame but themselves.

28 posted on 02/06/2008 4:40:07 PM PST by MNJohnnie (So in November, is it going to be our Liberal or their Liberal?)
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To: RadioCirca1970

All three ... they are all onions.

Once you peel back the layers to find out more what they are about and have been about ... it stinks and makes you cry.


29 posted on 02/06/2008 4:40:12 PM PST by bluebeak
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To: RadioCirca1970

All three ... they are all onions.

Once you peel back the layers to find out more what they are about and have been about ... it stinks and makes you cry.


30 posted on 02/06/2008 4:40:19 PM PST by bluebeak
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To: chaos_5

Huckabee is on a mission. I would think a deal between McCain and Romney would be more likely.


31 posted on 02/06/2008 4:40:31 PM PST by CindyDawg
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To: MNJohnnie

I was wondering if maybe we should just get out of the way.

excellent!


32 posted on 02/06/2008 4:41:07 PM PST by RadioCirca1970 (ISLAM and its Adherents ARE the enemy: Teach your kids Before their learn the hard way!)
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To: MNJohnnie

“Even for Romney it is an almost impossible long shot but with his money, media support and organization, he has a chance.”

This analysis is correct - But there’s a problem with this approach. We shouldn’t be asking ANYONE to step aside. The reason Romney isn’t beating Huckabee is because - he just isn’t. I don’t like Huckabee, but pleas for him to step aside only entrench his delusioned followers, and they make Mitt look bad. How long before we hear that Mitt should step down.

Huckabee preaches a narrow brand of conservatism. But it is a brand of conservatism and it deserves to be heard. Romney preaches a strong brand of traditional conservatism, but in truth, hasn’t proved he has conservative “street creds”. This is how you get them. Take Huck on. Challenge him to a one on one debate. Call him out on the double team tactics. Make an issue of the Conservatives for Choice McCain endorsement. Something other than ask him to quit.

Mitt needs to Create the Energy, not ask it be delivered.


33 posted on 02/06/2008 4:41:41 PM PST by crescen7 (game on)
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To: RadioCirca1970

None. Fight for what you believe. Then get behind whoever wins.

We can’t have Ms. VRWC back in the WH.


34 posted on 02/06/2008 4:42:05 PM PST by The_Republican (Dumb it Down and then Tart it Up!)
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To: seeker_two

McCain will never beat Hillary or Obama. He’s going to come across as a mean Bob Dole or G Bush Sr. Old and tired looking.


35 posted on 02/06/2008 4:43:44 PM PST by CindyDawg
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To: MNJohnnie

You spent more time on your excellent answer than this deserved. Obviously McCain has a lock. The only relevance on whether Romney and/or Huckabee drop out now is based on other considerations, e.g. influence at convention, etc


36 posted on 02/06/2008 4:43:56 PM PST by plain talk
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To: MNJohnnie

sorry but the BROKERED CONVENTION IS UTTER NONSENSE.

The RNC leaders have let it be known they expect whoever has the plurality to get the nod and the others to tow the line.

Brokered convention talk, respectfully is more illusory than huckabee thinking he has a legitimate shot at the candidacy OR the VP slot.


37 posted on 02/06/2008 4:46:11 PM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: DannyTN
But Romney can’t carry the Red states, Huckabee can.

Huckabee can? No way. He could only win in the Deep South. He is a ridiculed in the swing states & even the red states of the Midwest & The Plains.

38 posted on 02/06/2008 4:49:06 PM PST by outofstyle (There's a rake at the gates of Hell tonight)
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To: DannyTN

Huckabee is done.

he has NO MONEY.

he is out of gas.

finished.
finito
done
running on fumes.

He has nothing to fight with to get his “i hate mormons and the IRS” message out.


39 posted on 02/06/2008 4:50:29 PM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: MNJohnnie
I believe that it is legal to be a member of more than one political party at the same time.

When you register to vote, you are not telling them what party you are a member of, you are telling them what primary you are going to vote in.

There is no reason for us not to start a third party, or swell the ranks of the Constitution Party.

We can all be members of both by giving the smallest possible contribution to make it "official".

Then we just sit back and let them guess which party we will be supporting in the next election.

40 posted on 02/06/2008 4:50:56 PM PST by who_would_fardels_bear
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