Posted on 05/12/2008 5:58:18 AM PDT by bmweezer
And the winner of the semi-final round is…Michael Huckabee.
The former AR Gov beat Mitt Romney 81-13 percent, with JC Watts (4 percent) and Condi Rice (1 percent) taking third and fourth respectively.
This means that it will be Huckabee v. Romney in the final round which will begin on May 19 right here.
Come then and vote.
I never thought Huckabee was nearly as bad as Freepers give him credit for.
Not to sound like Susan Estrich, but if either of these two were white, their names would never come up.
A candidate who voted against the Bush tax cuts and a running mate who displays contempt for fiscal conservatism with eat-the-rich rhetoric that would not be out of place in the DUmpster.
"Ugh," indeed....
You forgot the "BARF ALERT"
If McCain picks Huckiebee there will nothing the GOP could say to me to get my vote for POTUS.
Not sure how accurate this poll was this time.
Probably about as accurate as any online poll at any time..... not much as far as scientific methodology is concerned.
Huckabee is a nonstarter.
Huckabee gives a “man from hope” foil for obama to bring change.
It becomes the McCain=Bush/Huckabee=Clinton ticket for this lemming crowd.
One data point: I’ll either stay home or hold my nose and vote depending on Juan’s VP pick.
Oh please, not Huckabee.
In order to win, McCain needs to pick:
1. Someone who will attract the conservative base, which is still skittish, and/or
2. Someone who can swing a major state, and/or
3. Someone that can attract a significant percentage of voters that would not normally vote Republican.
Huckabee does none of these!
Sanford won my poll. RINOrat Huckster can go huck himself.
Does make one wonder if those aren't plants and shills searching for something the MSM can run with...
The media was humping his candidacy. After all, they’d love a tax hikin’, illegal lovin’ liberal who kept Clinton’s rodent cronies infesting AR state government in office. Mike Beebe didn’t even have to fire hardly anyone after he officially reclaimed the Governorship for the rodents (thanks to Huckster), they were Clintonites (go look it up).
A VP poll is a useless thing. VPs are selected based on ticket balance, and for most Presidents, are personality driven. Only a powerful President dares select a VP who is a formidable player in their agenda, such as Dick Cheney.
That is, Dick Cheney is George W. Bush’s military style executive officer, the purpose of which is known to military people as the “pit bull in charge”.
Whereas someone like Al Gore or Walter Mondale (or Dan Quayle, for that matter) were a cross between a door stop and a coffee fetcher, whose primary function is to attend funerals of foreign dignitaries and stand around in Brooks Brothers suits, hoping for a heart attack.
So who will McCain pick? If he uses his military instincts, which is not likely, the very best choice would be General Petraeus, which would show tremendous wisdom in picking a very strong successor even before he begins.
However, it is much more likely that McCain will pick a doorstop. And, I might add, unfortunately it will not be a conservative one, but the squishiest Republican liberal he can find.
I wish he wouldn’t, but I fear he will.
The only SLIGHT chance that I will vote for McShamnesty rests on his picking a solidly conservative Veep. Not an open borders squishy RINO like Huckster.
BTTT
Lindsey Graham is waiting with bated breath.
If John McCain selects either of these men he might as well hand the Oval office over to Barack Obama. Those would be WEAK tickets and ineffective. I like Huckabee and Romney but...they are the wrong choices. Huckabee is too much of a comic and Romney while I like him very much is just NOT effective enough. There is something missing there and while I can’t figure it out I do know he won’t help McCain. Amazing that these two are serious choices. Oh well, there ya go. Hard to get enthused with the pubbies.
+1
President Clinton? President Obama? Come on - you've bought into all the dem bashing of Huckabee. Huck used to bring his band to freeper event and run the music...
A manipulated online poll, gosh, who’d have heard of something like that.
Be that as it may, as other astue poltical observer Freepers have noted, Huckabee brings absolutely nothing to the ticket and in facts turns off quite a number of Freepers. If it is a supposed grab for the ‘Evangelical’ vote, please - I find it impossible to believe there wouldn’t be a hundred better candidates out there.
Nope, whomever is picked will be popular in one of the swing states to ensure it doesn’t bolt through voter apathy over a liberal candidate (shocker that) and a not quite conservative enough one. I’m sure the media is busy writing up the debate questions now so that the first two debates will show us exactly how much Obama and McCain agree, so therefore we should all vote for Obama since he respresents ‘change’ and he’s ‘black.’
You are right, but wait, I don’t listen, watch or read any lib stations or papers.
I do however listen to Laura, Rush, Hannity, and Mark.
So maybe I picked it up from them.
But I have also read some of what Huck stands for and it is Socialism pure and simple. a Populist that says whatever he thinks the people want to hear.
the crazy uncle provides good entertainment at family picnics but that does not mean you leave sharp objects around him.
The conservative base, which is usually informed and interested, usually ends up voting, even if it is against the liberal.
It is the “Evangelical” voters who are more fickle and prone to sit out, and Huck could lure them. Rove’s success was in his ability to attract the voters that don’t always vote.
That said, I don’t think Huck is the pick.
He wasn't.
He was worse.
Nobody who advocates a national smoking ban should be taken seriously by conservatives. Nobody who says cutting off funding for illegals is “anti-Christian” and “un-American” ought to be taken seriously by conservatives. Nobody who repeatedly hikes sales taxes or taxes on tobacco, gas or nursing home residents ought to be taken seriously by conservatives.
If McCain picks the Huckster as his running mate, it will be his final middle finger to conservatives.
After the first half of McLame's O'Reilly interview I was ready to sit out the presidential election. Then Laura Ingram came on a calmed me down!!! But I am with you in this sense; my vote and level of support is subject to McCain's Veep choice. Any choice that has a "Sen" in the title will most likely cause me not to vote for him. A choice like Gov. Mark Sanford will result is a check mailed to McCain2008. I wonder where I am going to land?
The Huck is almost a cliche’. BTW, it’s too bad Senator Pryor ha nobody running against him this time around.
Too late. I already did. I know some ppl worship him. I've seen his name come up as a veep pick here over the years. It's without warrant.
And let me just add, I have nothing AGAINST Watts. He seems like a very decent fellow. Hell, he quit politics, which speaks well of him. But I don’t see anything in particular to suggest him as a veep or potential president. He was a decent conservative congressman. But then, so is my congressman, Scott Garrett. Doesn’t mean he should be in the White House.
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