Huckabee did well IMO, he and Ron Paul were the surprises of this campaign season, both took clear positions, ran unorthodox campaigns, and based their stands on personal convictions.
Huck and Paul may represent more rank and file Conservative Republican thought then McCain or Romney did, I wonder if TPTB were paying attention?
Huckabee did well IMO, he and Ron Paul were the surprises of this campaign season, both took clear positions, ran unorthodox campaigns, and based their stands on personal convictions. Huck and Paul may represent more rank and file Conservative Republican thought then McCain or Romney didIf nothing else, this election shed a light on the divide in the GOP. The party has no clue what it's about. Limited government? Be all things to all people? They're clueless. Not a surprise that a garden variety lifelong party hack like McCain emerged.
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Huck and Paul proved that neither could win the nomination. I envy Huckabee supporters, because you can rest easy knowing that YOUR candidate got the chance to go head-to-head for the republican voters, and lost fair and square, so you KNOW he had no chance of winning.
Most of us have to question whether OUR candidates could have won that head-to-head matchup. In Romney’s case, he had already shown he was the 2nd-best candidate, and he should have gotten that chance, but with Paul and Huckabee carrying on their quixotic campaigns we never got to see if he could have beaten McCain head-to-head. Probably he couldn’t, but we’ll never know for certain.