Posted on 02/09/2008 2:23:18 PM PST by Greg F
It’s over.
It’s still over.
Now, the reason I mention that...this is going to be an up hill fight for us as it is to win this election. If we are not going to have a candidate until the convention, how on earth could a campaign be put together in that amount of time and win a general?
An impossibility.
No, he makes that Campbell Soup Chef look like George Clooney.
I think a strong conservative candidate picked at the convention would beat the pulp out of the likely nominee of the Dems, Hillary. Hillary isn’t going to have much money left after the fight with Obama.
McCain was way too cute for his own good in how he handled that West Virginia votes. He thought he had killed two birds with one stone by giving his votes to Huckabee and denying Romney a victory. He felt that he was rewarding Huckabee with the West Virginia should satisfy Huckabee for staying in the race and taking out Romney in the South where in a two man race, McCain could not have caused Romney to drop out.
The problem was Huckabee was reading the press everyone else was and he saw the speculation that he was going to the Vice President for McCain as a reward for crippling Romney.
Well when Romney dropped out, it was made clear that Huckabee was no longer of any use to McCain and there was no way he was going to John McCain's vice-president when McCain could nominate someone like Lieberman and have the MSM slobber all over him for reaching across the aisle.
Unlike Romney, it is of no personal financial cost to Huckabee to stay in the race and he is having the time of his life with all the attention he is getting so there is no incentive for him to drop out, and Huckabee is an optimist who believes in miracles and he still thinks he might get lucky.
So Huck stays in with little to get him to drop save the offer of the vice-presidential nomination. Now there is the bind. Rick Perry calls Huckabee to drop out not because Perry is some kind of big shot Republican leader. But because Perry is governor of the state of Texas , a big state, and a state that Huckabee could win. That would be very very embarrassing for McCain and Perry as well because Perry just recently endorsed McCain probably thinking that it was a move which had way more upside than downside. The pressure is now on the leadership of the party and McCain to get Huckabee to drop out as quickly as possible because if Huckabee wins a state like Texas or even if McCain is forced burn a lot of money and time to win it, it ultimately hurts McCain and party leaders who endorsed him.
It sure looked like McCain got all that he could have asked for when Romney dropped out. But now he faced with candidate who has no reason to drop unless he gets the VP and a bunch of dissatisfied voters who see a vote for Huckabee as vote against McCain and all the poohbahs who endorsed him.
Al Gore spent lots of time and money reinventing himself as a candidate every couple of monthes. Shoot that ain't nothing for ol' Huck is being reinvented everyday and it ain't costing him a dime.
I, too, am disheartened by the depth of bitter hatred for Huckabee on Free Republic. I have felt more and more negative about coming here because of the lack of just basic respect for him and people who support him. They call him “Huckster,” “Huckabuck” or even POS, as someone did in a posting above, and then expect the reader to take their comments seriously. It makes me feel disenfranchised as a Freeper. Anyone who says something nice about him is treated like an idiot with no right to even post. It makes me sad and disappointed with FR.
“8 out of the next 10 states look WTA.”
You’re looking at the chart wrong. The only state-wide WTA contests remaining are VA, DC and VT. The other ones you are seeing that say WTA are “WTA by district”, which means the winner of the congressional district takes that district.
California was WTA by district and McCain practically swept it against Romney.
While I offer Huckabee no support, his vow to soldier on defies the common accusation that he was McCain's straw horse. I dare say that much can be laid to rest, and his determination in the face of McCain's anointing is to his credit.
For me, it is his pandering, pimping out of his religion that I despise...and the corny cliches and anecdotes got old really, really fast.
I don’t think the anti-Huck stuff is very deeply felt here except by those who just despise or fear Christians. Freepers seem to go along with the crowd, it’s a community with a lot of group think. Other than the anti-Christian stuff, it’s just the atmosphere of FR. Everybody got so used to attacking the various candidates because they supported Thompson or Hunter, they forgot to check the real facts when they were out. The ficons, or small government types are the ones that I think have been bamboozled. They bought into Romney as a good economic steward, even knowing that he implimented government mandated universal healthcare in Mass. (Hillary’s goal) . . . but knock Huck for tax increases in his later terms, even in a state with a Democratic legislature and a system that allowed override of a veto with a simple majority.
Now that McVain has been coronated by the MSM, maybe voters in the remaining states won’t waste their time voting for someone who’s already won. That could help Huck Berry.
We are a blue state, however, this has been a pattern across the country.
You are living in LaLa Land. Reality does not support your pie-in-the-sky hopes.
While I offer Huckabee no support, his vow to soldier on defies the common accusation that he was McCain’s straw horse.
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Nod. The Romney campaign was desperate when they were putting out that stuff. My bet is that Romney would make a deal in a minute if he could . . . Romney just stood no chance of an outright and ASSURED win for all the money he was spending and no ASSURED deal that could be cut. It was too high a cost for an improbable benefit. Huck is doing this on message, identity, and free media (he’s a fantastic politician and speaker, Romney is not). Huck is doing all this without spending his own cash, lending the campaign his own money or anything else. Huck was the best shot at a contested convention because Romney was more likely to drop.
You think all those Dems stay charged up when Obama loses? I think there is a very good chance that they don’t.
“...Huckabee could probably pick up more delegates if he changed his name to “Not John McCain.””
LMAO!!! Mainly, because it’s so true!
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