Other than the remote possibility of a brokered convention bringing us a completely different candidate (Newt?), I see little upside to voting for Huckabee. Romney cannot carry the south by himself — but he can with a VP like Thompson.
Gonna have to respectfully disagree here, Jim. Neither Huckabee nor Romney is particularly conservative, both are better than McCain — but only one of the two has an actual shot at beating McCain.
Because I respect you — I will consider your position further ... but I’m leaning against you at this point.
Not that it matters much — I don’t get to vote until March (Texas).
H
“Gonna have to respectfully disagree here, Jim. Neither Huckabee nor Romney is particularly conservative, both are better than McCain — but only one of the two has an actual shot at beating McCain.”
I am not conviced of that at all. The way this campaign has been going any one still running on the GOP ticket has a chance to beat McCain. The convention requires a majority vote to win the nomination, not a plurality. That means that the nominee has to have 50% plus, at least, 1 vote. Any one not getting over 50% does not get nominated. In Florida the other day McCain won with 36 or 37%, Romney had 31%. That means that a full 1/3 of GOP voters did not like either candidate. That is probably more typical than most people realize. Has there been any state other than Wyoming where a candidate actually won over 50% of the vote?