Posted on 02/06/2008 1:31:41 AM PST by Kurt Evans
Senator John McCain of Arizona won the most states and appeared poised to win the most delegates on Tuesday with impressive primary victories in the delegate-rich states of California, New York and Illinois. Mike Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor, revived his candidacy with victories across the South.
Their strong showings posed a serious challenge to the candidacy of Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, who vowed to press on with his campaign after winning in Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota, Massachusetts, Utah and Alaska...
If Mr. McCain failed to sweep the contests that followed his big win last week in Florida or to knock his rivals out of contention, his victories in the delegate-heavy Northeast and in Oklahoma were a sweet reward for his resurgent candidacy...
But the night buoyed Mr. Huckabee, who had been all but written off in recent weeks after his cash-starved candidacy struggled in the wake of his surprise victory in the Iowa caucuses. He defied expectations on Tuesday by winning contests in Alabama, Arkansas, Tennessee, West Virginia, and Georgia, the biggest Southern state to vote Tuesday...
“You know, over the past few days a lot of people have been trying to say that this is a two-man race,” he told his supporters in a suburb of Little Rock, Ark. “Well, you know what? It is. And we’re in it!” ...
In Georgia, Tennessee and Missouri, half or more of the Republican primary voters described themselves as evangelical or born-again Christians, and in those states Mr. Huckabee, a former Baptist preacher, got about 4 in 10 of their votes. In a number of states he split conservative and religious voters with Mr. Romney.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity should end their campaigns. They’re splitting the conservative vote:
http://townhall.com/Columnists/DeroyMurdock/2008/02/04/mitts_vietnam_flip-flop_his_most_disturbing_yet
“I have written repeatedly on Willard Mitt Romney’s serial flip-flops. Mitt is the born-again supply-sider who today swears he never raised taxes, even though he increased taxes and fees $983 million as Massachusetts governor. He is 2008’s stalwart defender of traditional values and man-woman marriage who, in 2002, distributed a hot-pink flyer among Boston’s gay community that read: ‘Mitt and Kerry Wish You A Great Pride Weekend! All citizens deserve equal rights, regardless of their sexual preference.’ (Kerry Healey was the GOP nominee for lieutenant governor.) Romney is the Second Amendment enthusiast who brags about being a life-member of the National Rifle Association — ‘life’ beginning in August 2006 — who said in 1994, ‘I don’t line up with the NRA.’ Pick nearly any topic, and you will find the new and old Romneys as far apart as two pugilists in opposite corners of a boxing ring, ready to knock each other’s lights out.”
Senator McCain and Governor Romney:
A wolf and a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=peFGA_HN3Yc
http://youtube.com/watch?v=eBRjSe8WvfQ
http://youtube.com/watch?v=a9IJUkYUbvI
http://youtube.com/watch?v=P_w9pquznG4
“Romney was probably the most pro-abortion and pro-gay rights
Republican official in the nation for the last decade.” —Human Events
http://www.observer.com/2007/mitt-romneys-convenient-truths
http://massresistance.org/romney/prolife.html
Governor Huckabee on the issues:
http://mikehuckabee.com/?FuseAction=Issues.Home
Mitt’s campaign will end soon and we will never see him enter politics again
Meet McLame’s running mate.
Huckabee can’t win, but he hates Romney enough to want to stay in just long enough for Mitt to drop out, at which time he will tell all his delegates to vote for McCain in exchange for the VP slot.
If this was a Friday, I’d be getting drunk.
FReepmail me to be on/off the Huckarevival Ping List.
A Liberal is a Liberal no matter what party label you slap on him.
you’ll get over Mitt eventually. he’s not “all that”
he wants to abolish the income and corporate tax and that makes him a fiscal liberal. ok...sure...
McCain’s campaign will end in a landslide defeat in Nov and we will then watch him joyfully switch to the Democrat Party like he thought about doing in 2001, 2204 and 2006.
Mathematically Huckabee has no chance of winning the nomination. 972 delagates have already pledged their votes to a candidate. If he won all of the remaining delegates in all States that have not yet voted, that would give Huckabee 379 total delegates. Thus, the best he can do results in a brokered convention, assuming he does not release his delegates before then.
You’ll note the New York Times leaves Romney’s victory in Colorado out of the equation. They’re not really even interested in reporting the facts about him, much less spinning anything in his direction.
LOL! Actually, I hate to say it, but I think they've become too irrelevant to do that.
so far you have a lousy track record on campaign predictions so I’ll take your words with a big grain of salt.
That the same reason the NY Times is trying to puff him up with this article.
In your dreams.
LLS
so what is ron paul doing then?
“you’ll get over Mitt eventually. he’s not “all that””
The fact that you’d support one of these other 2 frauds as opposed to a man who actually accomplished something with his life leads me to believe I’d look elsewhere in estimating what’s “all that.”
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