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Yes! Hello?

You think you can score with Texas?

Yes indeed.

Milwaukiedave · Joined: 02 Oct 2004 Location: Goseong

Funny stuff. Huckabee has a sense of humor.

Czarjorge · Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 11:25 am Post subject:

I was watching analysis on MSNBC and one of the punditos made a valid point. Huckabee doesn't need to get out of the race. He has enough money to keep touring around. He's getting enough exposure through established media that he doesn't need to pay for adds. The people that like him don't need to be convinced, and by targeting specific races, like Texas, he stays in the discussion. It doesn't matter if he gets the VP slot, something I think it fairly unlikely, he's having fun and this is just a stepping stone to either running in four years with increased name recognition or making bank doing speaking gigs for the rest of his life.

Hell, he might even start a travelling tent church. He is a preacher and he plays bass. I would pay to see that.

Gopher · Joined: 04 Jun 2005

What do you suppose Huckabee's endgame is at this point...?

Milwaukiedave · Joined: 02 Oct 2004 Location: Goseong

Gopher,

It's hard to say. He's got a couple of choices. 1) I can stay in it for the duration (or as long as he has the money to do so) even if McCain clinches the nomination; 2) He can suspend his campaign like Romney and perserve his delegates; 3) He stay in it until McCain clinches and try to amass as many delegates as possible and then try to work a deal with him. There are probably more then I can think of this morning.

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

Kansas just majorly embarrassed John McCain. He's been trying to make himself acceptable to the conservative wing, and Kansas says, "It ain't enough."

This does not bode well for McCain in November. Many conservatives are going to stay home in droves or vote for some independent candidate.

Milwaukiedave · Joined: 02 Oct 2004 Location: Goseong

It certainly doesn't say much for McCain given the fact he had Senator Brownback's endorsement.

This is the same Senator Brownback who opposed Oregon's Death with Dignity Law.

Gopher · Joined: 04 Jun 2005

Milwaukiedave · Joined: 02 Oct 2004 Location: Goseong

Milwaukiedave · Joined: 02 Oct 2004 Location: Goseong

This was in another thread from yesterday, but it is on the same topic. I'll quote myself:

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

I don't see Gopher's post as saying Huck should drop out. All I see is that Gopher is stating facts. There are faultlines in the Republican Party. Yesterday Huckabee seriously embarrassed McCain by winning two states. That undermines McCain. It may not undermine his nomination but it may well undermine his strength.

Gopher · Joined: 04 Jun 2005

Thank you for that. You may be the first poster here ever to recognize my position exactly as I have stated it, dryly, no more no less, without making it into something that it is not, requiring a retroactive disclaimer from me and provoking a probable long, drawn-out argument based on someone else's touchiness. (And I do not address you per se, Milwaukiedave, inasumuch as a slew of others who post here and entangle me in such nonsense on a regular basis.)

I do not opine on any "should" issues with respect to Huckabee. I have no idea -- and truly I do not care. Whether I personally want him to withdraw from the race or not is entirely irrelevant to what will or will not occur. Also, as I have said before, I would be satisfied if either McCain, Clinton, or perhaps Obama won the presidency. That, for me, at least, is the correct order, but, at the end of the day, I would count either of those results a victory. I diversified my emotional investment in this election weeks ago. And things have gone my way more than I imagined possible. (I hoped but did not believe McCain would have made it this far.)

I merely noted, above, that Huckabee, consciously or not, cultivates the divisions that will likely destabilize and probably topple the Republicans as this election season continues to unfold. Huckabee cannot win the nomination, and his noble appeal to the religious right notwithstanding, I do not think a miracle in this case will be forthcoming. Rather, he is poised to bring a plague upon his house...

JustJohn · Joined: 18 Oct 2007 Location: Your computer screen

stillnotking · Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Location: Oregon, USA

If anything, Huck has killed his VP chances by staying in the race. (Not that he really had a chance to begin with.)

I think he is simply making an ideological statement, and allowing conservative voters to make one. He just wants to prove to McCain that McCain's got a lot of bridges to (re)build before conservatives will accept him.

Ironically, this will probably make a McCain candidacy a tougher sell, especially if the GOP keeps pulling stupid crap like refusing to count all the votes in WA. If Huck supporters feel disenfranchised, or like they're being told to shut up and fall in line, they may get ornery.

Here's another question: will McCain remaining in the race help Hillary? Texas and Ohio both have open primaries; if there is no GOP race, a lot of independents and Republicans might vote in the D primary, which would likely be an edge for Obama. If Huck stays in, Obama loses some of those votes.

Ultimately, though? It's a sideshow. Just like Huck's candidacy has been from the very beginning. He's even less acceptable to the GOP as a whole than McCain is. He will never be President.