Posted on 02/06/2008 5:36:45 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
Well surprise, surprise!
Sure, he danced the full Kabuki, including the obligatory statement about considering John McCain for his VP slot. But at the end of the day, Mike Huckabee has admitted the obvious: he'll take the Veep nomination if John McCain offers it.
Huckabee was a guest on this morning's Today.
View video here.
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McCain is just as far left as Hillary ever was. Nice tag, btw. Are you pulling a paycheck for McCain, or just shilling for free?
Fred’s too old and too liberal. Mark Sanford!
Shilling for free. Romney as a conservative is a farce. $50 copay for abortions in his Massachusetts universal healthcare plan. I don’t know how so many relatively bright people have been suckered into thinking Romney is a conservative.
I never said Romney was a conservative. There are no conservatives in the race, save Paul, to some extent, but he has no chance. McCain can throw Reagan’s name around for the next 9 months, and it won’t make him a Conservative, it will simply make him a bigger liar.
Ditto, #10. I may be voting Dem for the first time in 30 years. This vet will not vote for a crazy man to have his hand on the nuclear button. Better a bad/wrong/stupid person in the White House than a loon.
We’re on the same page then. I think Huck is the most conservative guy left in the race and am voting accordingly. The only rap against him is that he raised taxes (like McCain and Romney didn’t in their careers) . . . and from what I’ve read they got better schools and roads for the spending.
I agree. Clinton NEEDS to win. Otherwise if McCain does, after one term he may call it quits due to sickness or his age and Huckabee takes the rein. Imagine 12 years of McCain/Huckabee.
Oh what am I saying, Huck will be squashed in any election running for Prez.
If McCain LOSES in Nov, at least in 2012 there’ll be a fresh crop to choose from and hopefully one of them will be the conservative everyone’s been looking for. With Huck as VP and a mccain win, he naturally gets the nod as next prez candidate, right? Ugh!
There was someone on CNN talking about this where McCain thinks that many Democrats are going to cross over and vote for him. He thinks that he wont need the Republican base in the general election.
What’s funny is he actually thinks Democrats are going to break off and vote for him. He was talking yesturday about how he’s going to win New York and New Jersey in November.
Well November 4th this year is going to seem like that isn’t it.
“I’ll say it again in case you missed it the first time. A McCain/Huckabee ticket is a kick in the groin to conservatives. It’s McCain saying to the base of the party, ‘I don’t need or want you in my election.”\’
I’m not the one destroying the party, McCain is.”
You would be in serious error. The “base” of the party are religious conservatives not fiscal pukes. By picking Huckabee as his VP he is extending a nice olive branch to both the religious conservatives and the Southern vote.
You are just another of those “hissy fit” cry babies that didn’t get your candidate chosen. Gasp!, the people (the audacity of them) chose otherwise.
Let me be clear. If you want to throw a tantrum and vote third party or write-in, that is OK by me. But the nonsense of voting for the Democrat is beneath contempt...it is the moral equivalent of treason.
Just want to be sure we all know where you're coming from.
You saw the McCain ticket on Leno last week when Rudy joined him on stage.
thats not true. Several people turn down VP. Powell, Ford are two I can think of.
The base of the party is conservatives, not religious nanny state liberals like Huckabee.
“The “base” of the party are religious conservatives not fiscal pukes”
That reasoning is why the GOP is so fractured. The base used to be those of us who were both socially and fiscally conservative. Those that were just just socially conservative or just fiscally conservative were part of the tent, but not the main pole. The Huckster does NOT represent the “base” and wouldn’t bring anything electorally to the table for McCain. He’d be a fool to choose him.
Neither McCain nor Romney can carry the South; Romney won’t be VP. Huck won’t help him win in Nov either.
Exactly! McCain is neither, and Huckabee is barely one of them. Huckabee adds nothing to the ticket and will not unite the base.
McCain's only chance is to pull in enough Independents and Democrats to offset the Conservative base". Against Hillary, he might be able to do that because enough people despise her too. With Obama, not a chance in hell.
Fiscal “pukes” SV?
C’mon. Because I am sick of giving the government every paltry dime I earn so that nannystaters like Huckabee can give tuition to illegals, that makes me a “fiscal puke?”
Go to Europe and join the Christian Democrats. It’s more to your liking.
The base of the party is NOT just the church ladies and finger wagging faux-Christian simpleton hicks, much to your (and Mike Huckabee’s) dismay. The base is the coalition of social conservatives, patriots, fiscal conservatives, and defense hawks that Reagan built.
You’re comment is pretty indicative to what we’ll hear if that happens. I think the McCain team is aware of this type of discontent among conservatives and I’ll be stunned if McCain chooses Huckabee as his VP nominee. It would all but guarantee hundreds of thousands of diehard conservatives stay home, vote third-party, or worse in November. I think he has to veer sharply to the right for his selection.
If he chooses Huckabee (or someone politically similar), the Dems will win the White House in November.
Yes. IMO the South voted Huckabee Tuesday for religious ideology and they thought they were voting for a VP. And that is just what McCain wanted them to think.
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