mike huckabee makes my skin crawl
laura ingraham hits the nail on the head while discussing huckabee’s reaction to mitt’s endorsement of mccain:
mitt romney is out of the race. and mike huckabee is still attacking mitt romney! i mean, this is now getting to the obsession point with mike huckabee. you’re still going after mitt romney when mitt romney does something that he thinks is the right thing for the betterment of the party and our country in november?….i just thought that was really lacking in grace on the part of huckabee. really bad.
also, you can listen in the ‘free stuff‘ section at lauraingraham.com.
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He must have an objective, what exactly is it?
Plain old free airtime?
Money? Can he keep donations for a future presidential run? (He raised 250,000 online one day recently…apparently a first for the Huckabee camp)
He cannot win and its so unlikely he’ll deny McCain an automatic nomination…is he hoping something happens with McCain’s health between now and the convention? Is he in the best position to step in if McCain’s skin cancer viscously returns or something?
Or because Romney dropped out and endorsed, does he want to go out “on his terms” so he doesn’t look like he was forced out, particularly by Romney?
Let some time pass so he gets a little bigger piece of the news cycle?
I think he just doesn’t have a clue. Is the campaign run by college students that just don’t know any better? That could explain the vindictive nature of his continued attack on Romney.
Mike knows what he is doing and he is doing the right thing! If he makes your skin crawl, how does you arse smell when it crawls across your nose. Mike Huckabee is the exact thing the Republicans have been wanting,and he can beat the Clinton’s and Hussain Obama.No problems.
ah, where to start?
even your screen name is idiotic.
please elaborate. for example, tell me what his goal is in attacking another republican who is no longer in the race? does that help him beat the clinton’s (sic) and obama?
first of all, that is physically impossible.
second, it would smell like a minty fresh snowstorm in heaven.
third, this is part of what i find so galling about the huckabee crowd. as part of huck’s “positive campaign” you resort to insulting other republicans on a personal level.
republicans do not want higher taxes. republicans do not want pandering to illegal immigrants. republicans do not want terrorists getting due process rights in american courts. yet mike huckabee is for all of those things. he is also the laughing stock of the daily show. he is so over the top on the religious side of his campaign, jon stewart has wondered whether he is a mythical creature made up to embarrass the republican party. sadly, no.
he is real. and every day he stays in the race, the worse the republican party looks.
no he can’t. but if you really believe he could win, please explain to me how this would be possible (without using a loaves/fishes reference).
A MUST READ!
Mike Huckabee is ready to take this campaign to a brokered convention…and the following article explains just how REAL that possibility is…
Source: http://www.forerunner.com/blog/2008/02/brer-mccain-and-huckabee-rabbit-how.html
(February 14, excerpted)
“The John McCain camp informed us yesterday that it is “mathematically impossible” for Mike Huckabee to win the nomination. What they won’t say is that McCain stands a good chance of losing the nomination as long as Huckabee stays in the race (bold, J. Morris).
“Huckabee only has to win half of the remaining delegates to block McCain from the nomination (bold, J. Morris). And even if he falls a few short of that, many of the delegates in McCain’s column will be “unbound” delegates who may in fact vote for anyone they choose on the first ballot.
“This leads one to wonder: If it’s really “mathematically impossible,” then why does Huckabee want to be in the race? And why does John McCain so badly want him out?
“Simply: Huckabee does not need to “win” in order for McCain to lose!
“…The McCain camp thinks the “mathematically impossible” rhetorical trap will hide a few obvious facts from the voting public who tend to believe the media pundits rather than research how the nomination process actually works. This might in fact backfire as conservatives will resent the propaganda ploy of the “Republicans in name only” who want the election to be declared over before the voters have chosen all the delegates.
“McCain will not be the nominee until he has 1,191 bound delegates pledged to him. John McCain is ahead with an estimated 804 delegates after Tuesday’s contests compared to 240 for Mike Huckabee and 14 for Ron Paul.
“Can no one in the media do the math? Or is it that they think the rest of us are too stupid to follow it? There are 774 delegates left to win. If John McCain has exactly 804 delegates (and 18 of these are uncommitted delegates who are still able to change their mind) then he needs an additional 387 to clinch the nomination with 1,191.
“Ironically half of 774 is exactly 387!
“So where is the mathematical impossibility here?
“Huckabee only needs to get 51 percent of the remaining delegates to block McCain! (bold, J. Morris). Considering the results of the last week alone, he is more than able to do this (bold, J. Morris).
“Even though McCain is the delegate leader, unless reaches 1,191 delegates, he cannot win in the first round of the convention. If he loses and it goes to the second round for a vote, he is not guaranteed any of those delegates. Bound or pledged delegates are only committed to the winner of the primary to vote for that candidate in the first round. At the convention, if McCain does not get 51% of the delegate vote on the first round, then they vote again. In the next round, delegates can vote for anyone.
“…Here’s another amazing fact. Not all the delegates amassed by McCain are bound to vote for him in the first round! Each state allots both “bound” and “unbound” delegates. (I’ve been calling them “super delegates” in my other posts, but in reality this term is only used for the Democrat primaries.) The Democrat super delegates are party insiders likely to support the established frontrunner, while the Republican uncommitted delegates are similar, but they are more likely to vote for anyone they choose in the first round.
“McCain currently has 796 bound delegates and 18 unbound delegates. McCain needs 395 bound delegates to reach 1191 of the remaining states.
“Now here’s the math (here I’ve again used my blue, red, purple code):
Likely for McCain
Likely for Huckabee
Likely for either
Wisconsin - 37 bound and 3 unbound
Puerto Rico - 20 bound and 3 unbound
Texas - 137 bound and 3 unbound!
Ohio - 0 bound and 88 unbound!
Rhode Island - 17 bound and 3 unbound
Vermont - 17 bound
Mississippi - 36 bound and 3 unbound
Pennsylvania - 0 bound and 74 unbound!
North Carolina - 69 bound!
Indiana - 27 bound and 30 unbound
Nebraska - 30 bound and 3 unbound
Hawaii - 20 bound
Kentucky - 45 bound
Oregon - 27 bound and 3 unbound
Idaho - 26 bound and 6 unbound
New Mexico - 29 bound and 3 unbound
South Dakota - 24 bound and 3 unbound
“There are 561 bound delegates left. If we are speaking of the number of bound delegates that John McCain must win, then he needs 71% of the remaining 561 to reach 1191 bound delegates.
“Huckabee will probably win Mississippi, Nebraska, Kentucky, and South Dakota. If this happens, then McCain would have to win just about every remaining delegate to be guaranteed enough bound delegates to win the nomination, and that is not likely to happen.
“In fact, if Huckabee can win Texas and North Carolina it becomes really interesting once again. Texas, Mississippi, North Carolina, Nebraska, Kentucky, Idaho and South Dakota have 385 total delegates up for grabs. Just winning these states along with some delegates from close contests in other states could block the nomination from McCain.
“The media pundits lump both bound and unbound delegates in their totals. This is very misleading. Huckabee may block McCain in the first round delegate vote at the convention and then win on a second, third or fourth ballot. Until someone has a majority, the candidates keep striking deals and the delegates keep voting.
“Abraham Lincoln won the nomination on the fourth ballot in the Republican convention in 1860 although William Seward was the pre-convention favorite.
“So while unlikely, if there is enough dissent in the GOP come summer, McCain could be denied the nomination if he doesn’t have enough bound delegates. But even more likely, if he falls short of 1191 in both bound and unbound delegates, then a conservative coalition could arise that would nominate Huckabee or another conservative as the Republican candidate for President of the United States.”
Yes, there IS yet hope. Go Mike Huckabee!
Posted by John Morris at 10:20 PM
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Dang, Classy Sassy, where did you learn such verbal economy?
Although, while I think you’re wrong, I actually hope you’re right.
As for Huck, I don’t see where his actions differ significantly from the ever-present (Bill) Clinton bashing by most of the right. He hasn’t run for office in some time, yet he remains a favorite target of Republicans (myself included). Republicans do it to distance themselves from one stance and demonstrate why they are better.
Why is it unfair for Huckabee to point out what he feels to be an important difference between himself and Romney (heaven knows why he feels it is important) in an effort to show what an all-around great guy he is?
first of all, because it is untrue. romney never criticized mccain personally. anytime he spoke even half-negatively of the man’s record, he premised it with, “senator mccain is an honorable man” or “i have nothing but the deepest respect for john mccain personally.” he would then go on to describe one or more of the many embarrassing aspects of mccain’s senate voting record.
in my opinion, romney’s endorsing remarks were very limited in their support of mccain and coincided with what he’s said all along about the senator. huckabee mischaracterizing mitt’s position is uselessly rehashing more campaign meanness that is supposed to end when the primaries end.
in his endorsement, mitt said he sides with mccain on national security issues and maybe that’s it, i can’t remember. he didn’t unceasingly gush over mccain like a lovestruck teenager. mike huckabee does. huckabee’s mccain obsession started in new hampshire, all of a sudden. then, in a subsequent debate, (in SC, i believe) he even butted in to the conversation to spout off about mccain’s 92 year-old mother. his point then was that the old codger isn’t too old to be president. but just a few days later, at a campaign stop before florida, huckabee had his robot campaigner, chuck norris, attack john mccain as too old while huck was standing right beside him.
so, in my opinion, huckabee’s fawning over mccain is acting. mitt romney’s endorsement was consistent with what he’s said throughout the campaign.
besides, much of what huckabee has said over the last 4-5 months has been disingenuous, from his refusal to answer (three times) a simple, direct question about whether he raised taxes in arkansas, to his claim to not know much about mormonism despite having been a speaker at an anti-mormon conference in salt lake city, to his claim that he would run a positive campaign (but then showing an attack ad moments later). also, while campaigning in florida, he pretended not to know which end of a golf club to hold, and then joked that it was “like mitt romney trying to eat fried chicken.”
remember, he vowed to run a positive campaign!
huckabee is without shame. he is an embarrassment. he is classless. and i think he is the one who has done the most acting of anybody in the republican primary field.
As Doug once put it, Huckabee is toxic in a general election.
i think he was thinking of britney spears.
huckabee being huckabee:
mike huckabee lies to larry king
huckabee less than truthful again
so i have always wondered, “classy”, what it is like working for a campaign? do you get paid at all? do you just put your life on hold? how do you decide to support this tool over another tool? but hey, at least no one’s getting “pimped out” like a certain clinton…
Dear Classy Sassy,
Thank you for your long and belabored post. I believe we are all now dumber from having been made to endure your pages of mindless drivel.
Of all the less-than-stellar options currently available for president, I would have to agree with the Original Post. Huckabee makes my skin crawl. I am ever so glad he is now out, althought the alternative is not good either.
God Bless America…We sure could use the help!