GOP Growing Irritated with Huckabee

[fuzzis]

GOP Growing Irritated With Huckabee (http://www.usnews.com/blogs/news-desk/2008/2/15/gop-growing-irritated-with-huckabee.html)

..."We're getting pretty frustrated with his campaign," says a top GOP official. "He can't win. Like [McCain campaign manager] Rick Davis said, he'd have to win 125 percent or more of the remaining delegates, and that's not good math for him." The McCain campaign has been careful not to publicly attack Huckabee, but the frustration has also become apparent.

Davis jokes that with Huckabee staying in, at least reporters are paying attention to McCain. But privately, campaign associates are concerned about having to continue spending money to fight Huckabee in upcoming primary states. Republican officials not associated with the campaign are growing louder in their calls for Huckabee to quit the race and back McCain, as Mitt Romney did this week....

[Conveyor Belt]

Why are they ignoring Ron Paul??? I mean, Ron Paul hasn't dropped out, has he???

Let Huckabee run. It's like watching Shawn O'Hara or that lawyer from Lamar county run... they just keep talking and talking and they're not going to win, but by God, they're going to RUN!!!

[fuzzis]

Why are they ignoring Ron Paul??? I mean, Ron Paul hasn't dropped out, has he???

Let Huckabee run. It's like watching Shawn O'Hara or that lawyer from Lamar county run... they just keep talking and talking and they're not going to win, but by God, they're going to RUN!!!

:laugh:

They're not irritated with Ron Paul because Ron Paul has never been a serious contender. And to be sweet, Imma stop there.

:bowrofl:

[Conveyor Belt]

I'm just poking at you, TDaleBeavers. You know I'd vote for you if I lived in Lamar County.

[CircusRide]

McCain=Whining like Hitlary

[Remington]

Well, I'm all for Huckabee staying in the race. I know he can't win, but there's a good reason to stay there. He's forcing McCain to move closer to the right and McCain may make some promises that the conservatives will hold him to. In primaries, democrats move to the left and republicans move to the right, but in the general election both move towards the middle. Without Huckabee in the primary, McCain would stay in the middle or to the left in order to draw support from democrats that not like Hillary or Obama.

[dollfus46]

I'm positive that when the GOP sweetens the pot enough, Huckleberry will drop out.

[dreamhippy]

I would LOVE to see RINO Huck win another state or two, just to shut up the coronation committee that cannot stop gushing over RINO McCan`t.

[dollfus46]

Help my dumb ass out with the acronym, RINO, please.

[dreamhippy]

Republican In Name Only.

[aaron]

I agree that Huckabee should stay in it. Let everyone vote, that's what a primary is for.

[mspolitics82]

I agree that Huckabee should stay in it. Let everyone vote, that's what a primary is for.

Agreed. After all.....only the media thinks the nominee should be chosen BEFORE the convention.....and only in recent years has this been pushed so BIG---the conventions are set up to choose a party's nominee, but the media wants to make it happen BEFORE the convention.

What a lot of people forget is that these "delegates" CAN switch their votes at the convention, if they really want to....it has happened before---every four years in fact. Also, what some forget, or not even think about, is that a person like Newt Gingrich could conceivably come out at the last minute and say, "True conservatives need a candidate with something to offer, and I offer more experience and more leadership than anyone else in the race, and more than ALL others in the race combined, so I offer myself as the Republican alternative for REAL CHANGE."" Besides being correct in his self-description, he could conceivably get all the original Romney and Huckabee delegates, plus some of the McCain delegates who have committed to RINO John, but not really wanted to. Now I know this scenario seems crazy, and is probably unlikely, but I wanted to throw it out to just let people see why Huckabee (or Ron Paul) has not "thrown in the towel', yet---nor should Romney have done so IMO.

[Conveyor Belt]

Well, I'm all for Huckabee staying in the race. I know he can't win, but there's a good reason to stay there. He's forcing McCain to move closer to the right and McCain may make some promises that the conservatives will hold him to. In primaries, democrats move to the left and republicans move to the right, but in the general election both move towards the middle. Without Huckabee in the primary, McCain would stay in the middle or to the left in order to draw support from democrats that not like Hillary or Obama.

How, exactly, would they hold him to promises? We couldn't hold GWB to any campaign promises. I'm still waiting on SS reform and overall tax reform.

[Remington]

How, exactly, would they hold him to promises? We couldn't hold GWB to any campaign promises. I'm still waiting on SS reform and overall tax reform. Can't exactly FORCE him, but at least can make him promise some stuff to the right side, which would make him uncomfortable and I would like to see that.

[dreamhippy]

http://www.inbetweenpolitics.com/

Huckabee cannot seem to get the media-declared all-but-presumptive-nominee John McCain to give him a debate. Huck and Ron Paul ought to know better. The media is only interested in promoting the liberals.