Posted on 02/07/2008 3:42:31 PM PST by pissant
No he didn't. He dropped out because he recognized the utter futility in pouring more millions into a losing endeavor. His citing a war and preparation for the general was just bs.
You can always tell an ex-governor from Arkansas, but you can't tell him much.
I think two of these turned loose on us in one lifetime is two too meny.
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Yeah, I don't foresee the kind of criticism needed toward McCain that Huckabee will need to make. It is unfortunate because Huckabee would do very well against him in a two man contest. But there is something in their relationship that prevents that. It will be interesting to see how they do campaign against one another. I'd sure like to be surprised.
ha ha ha He was further behind than Mitt Romney. Its all about Huck.
No, he is staying in to give people an opportunity to vote against McCain. Heck, he might win everything from here on out.
Mitt’s coming out looking really good here - very noble and gallant.
I think Mitt is a fraud. Noble and gallant my a$$.
Wow — what a bunch of grotesques.
Very good point. I had the same thought.
I agree. He can do a lot of damge to McCain, but won't. Maybe he is just trying to lock up that VP slot, a good position when your running mate is 71. If the gloves come off, then you know he won't be the VP. I hope the gloves come off.
Me too, just for the entertainment purposes, if nothing else.
“According to what I understand its impossible for Huck to get enough delegates at this point,even if he were to take all the rest of the states. So I guess he is hoping that McCain wont either.”
Now that the race is down to McCain, Huckabee, and Paul, could it be that McCain does not get the 576 delegates he needs to reach 1,191? I want to know what the chances are that it goes to convention. Possible???
Right. I guess when you are a Mormon you are the only group in America that can never tell their children thay they can grow up to be President.
“Even just considering his severe lack of foreign policy understanding, makes Huckabee unqualified to be POTUS.”
If DUNCAN HUNTER believes that Huckabee can be trusted on border/immigration and WOT issues, I would trust Duncan Hunter’s informed, educated judgment after he spent a year getting to know the candidates, more than I would trust the opinion of any of the posters on here.
Do you give a even a moment’s thought to the fact that Duncan Hunter thinks Huckabee is the best of the lot that’s left to be CIC?
Huckabee can forget getting the VP offer. I hear “Mr. Suntan” is on the short list - at the top of the “page”.
http://www.ocalapride.com/charlie_crist_at_tonys.htm
I feel sorry for McCain in October if he’s dumb enough to pick this guy!
“Personally, I think Romney dropped out because he knew he couldn’t win and it looks noble to do what he did. I’m not impressed, but I am glad to see him leave. Huckabee represents of small but significant(20-30%) part of the GOP (of which I am part) that want social/moral/religious values to not be ignored by the GOP anymore...no more mere lip service.”
Hi Sola
Some Freepers may wonder what the point is for Huckabee staying in the race (since he, as a moderate, has served his purpose on behalf of the REpublican establishment in not only splitting the conservative vote, but also tag-teaming with McCain against Romney, thus enabling a moderate to win).
I have a different take. I think we really need Huckabee to stay in the race if for no other reason than he is the only one to forward such highly critical issues like eating chicken skin and taking medimucil. ;-)
Thanks, -Wade Englund-
The way I see it, is that this leaves the field open for a Ron Paul upset.
Go Ron!
Right on.
The funny thing is, that if you asked most of these Mormon bashers to sit down and write out what the historic doctrines of the orthodox Christian religion are, they wouldn't even get past the first sentence. In fact, many of them actually think they may reject "The Trinity" and still be within orthodoxy. Many of them are actually attending "churches" that teach heretical and aberrant doctrine, yet they haven't the first clue about it.
They're like the pot calling the kettle black.
It doesn’t seem unfortunate to me. Since Iowa I have had a clear order of preference of the 5 candidates in, or close to, double digits at the time. 1) Fred Thompson, 2) Rudy Giuliani, 3) Mitt Romney, 4) John McCain and 5) Mike Huckabee. I’ve seen my favorite drop out (in order no less) until I’m at number 4. Thankfully at least it doesn’t look like I’ll have to settle for my 5th choice.
“”Now that the race is down to McCain, Huckabee, and Paul, could it be that McCain does not get the 576 delegates he needs to reach 1,191? I want to know what the chances are that it goes to convention. Possible???””
MCCAIN IS THE FRONT RUNNER, NOT THE WINNER!!!!!!
HE ONLY HAS ABOUT HALF THE DELEGATES NEEDED TO WIN!
Now that Mitt is out of the race, a lot of people will decide that Huckabee is a lot more appealing than McCain.
At one point last night, I saw that someone had said that Romney had 244 delegates, to Huckabee’s 187.
I had pointed out that just that between Huck and Mitt, I’ve heard a lot of estimates that Mitt had spent about 10 times as much money, and sure didn’t have 10 times as many delegates.
(not even twice as many, not even close)
At that time, Romney had 244 to Huckabee’s 187 = 57 more delegates, right?
It was past my bedtime, and my brain was doing funny things, but I tried to figure out the percentage of the spread, and it looks to me like 23% inclusive, and 30% exclusive, which are the same figures generally used for the Fair Tax, which is one of the reasons I support Huckabee (he is for Fair Tax!!)
Go Huck!! I want to start a group, accountants for Fair Tax
Those percentages struck me as a really fascinating coincidence.
The Fair Tax is the most ‘CONSERVATIVE’ idea anyone has talked about this whole election, because the IRS, that administers the income tax / withholding, is the most invasive, oppressive, socialist institution in our country.
But my original point was that southern conservatives weren’t buying what Mitt was trying to sell.
People said Huckabee couldn’t even get 10%, couldn’t possibly win Iowa, couldn’t possibly do it again, couldn’t win any states Tuesday. He won five states Tuesday, and was ahead in Missouri for hours, until McCain finally caught up, then crept past him by one point. (58 winner take all delegates, which he almost certainly would have won if Mitt hadn’t been in the race)
So now when they say he couldn’t possibly win the nomination, I’m not buying that either.
It’s just a daydream of mine, but if Hunter would be the VP, would you believe his intentions are to do the right thing on the border?
Huckabee won his home state by a (pardon my southern term) WHOPPING margin, while Romney barely won his home state by a 10 point margin.
Who cares who wins New York, or Illinois, or the North Eastern liberal states that are DEEP BLUE, and going to vote democrap in the fall for sure anyway (barring some huge unforeseen event).
A republican president needs to win in the south to win in the fall, and Louisiana is the next state to vote, on Feb 9, where they just elected a Republican governor. I haven’t seen any polls, but would expect HUCKABEE to do a lot better there than McCain.
Huckabee got over 60% of the vote in his home state, 2nd place was only 20%, but Romney only won his home state by 51% to McCain’s 41%, and McCain got LESS than 50% in his home state.
So if you have been paying any attention to the posters on here claiming to be Arkansas republicans who claim he couldn’t even win his own state, take a deep breath, and look at the numbers. T H R E E times as many votes, and the other guys barely won their home states. He won, BIG, compared to them.
Don’t let the people who say he can’t be elected give us another self fulfilling prophecy of having to settle for someone we have to HOPE will do what he says now. Right now it’s just name recognition, and when most people get to know Mike Huckabee, they like him.
Likeability is something we will really need in the fall, against either Hillary or Obama, or a ticket with both on it.
Pointing out that Romney has spent ten times as much money to accumulate a few more delegates in states that don’t matter anyway, is not being envious, or using class warfare, or an attack on anybody, it’s just saying a lot of people find Huck more appealing.
A VOTE FOR HUCKABEE IS A VOTE AGAINST MCCAIN!!
HUCKABEE / HUNTER ‘08
He certainly is that dumb. It will be him or Perry Como from Texas.
LOL. Ya never know.
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