If it had been a two-man race, he would have lost West Virginia, because McCain gave him the votes he needed there.
But he did at least win his home state by 62%, while McCain appears to have gotten less than 50% of his home state.
If Huckabee really wanted the nomination, instead of kissing up to McCain, he should have made nice with Romney, because he would need Romney to drop out and give him support.
As it is, ROmney has done better in southern states than Huckabee does in states that aren’t southern.
CharlesWayneCT said
“If it had been a two-man race, he would have lost West Virginia, because McCain gave him the votes he needed there.
But he did at least win his home state by 62%, while McCain appears to have gotten less than 50% of his home state.
If Huckabee really wanted the nomination, instead of kissing up to McCain, he should have made nice with Romney, because he would need Romney to drop out and give him support.
As it is, ROmney has done better in southern states than Huckabee does in states that aren’t southern.”
I say:
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.
Maybe some people just didn’t drink the koolaid, huh?
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 unforseen event).
A republican president needs the south to win, and people in the southern states aren’t drinking the koolaid that Rush and Sean are trying to serve, trying to pretend Romney’s a great conservative when he has been supporting abortion, supporting taxpayers funding it, campaigning on it while he’s in a blue state, then tries to to tell us he’s just started thinking about it, and changed his mind now, but his kids are great, and his hair is great, so we should vote for him.
I hope that Mitt’s conversionS are real, and if he’s the nominee, I’d take a chance on him instead of the Dems, but some of us are realistic enough to be a LITTLE skeptical that after years of supporting abortion, taxpayer funded abortion, the Brady Bill and other gun control, homosexual issues, gay judges, that he’s all of sudden conservative on ALL those issues.
Huckabee - reliably pro-life, not recently pro-life.
Huckabee - reliably pro 2nd amendment, not recently 2nd amendment.
He understands that it is for self defense, not just hunting and sports.
Every vote for Mike Huckabee from now on will be one more vote to show the establishment and the media that the election can’t be bought and we don’t have to settle for their opinion of “that’s the best we can get”.
I love Rush and Sean, but they don’t get to decide who I vote for.
If it had been a 2 - man race (McCain and Huckabee), if Rush and Sean had supported the real conservative instead of the ‘conservative of convenience’ Huckabee would have WON Missouri’s 58 winner take all delegates.
McCain won over Huckabee by 1% because some people either believed Romney’s new position “I’m conservative pro-life and support gun rights”, or knew his conversions were all recent, but didn’t think Huckabee could win, because that’s what ‘the media’ kept telling them.
So my question is, when are Rush and Sean going to say, “Oh, we’re sorry folks for telling you that Romney’s a conservative, and Huckabee couldn’t win - sorry if we cost Huckabee that one percent in Missouri and gave those 58 winner take all delegates to McCain. Sorry about that, sorry it’s our fault that McCain’s going to be the nominee.”
Think they’ll take responsibility and apologize?
I’m not holding my breath.
HUCKABEE / HUNTER ‘08