Robbie, that’s not how it played out.

Paul finished fourth with 10 percent among the 1,133 participating delegates in the first round, while Romney took 41 percent and Huckabee took 33 percent. McCain, who started the day in New York City before heading to California, reached the second round with 15 percent.

But before Huckabee’s surprising turnaround in the second round, McCain delegates told FOX News they had been instructed by the campaign to throw their support to Huckabee.

McCain delegate John Vuolo said former Louisiana Gov. Buddy Roemer approached him and other McCain supporters at the convention and told them he had spoken to McCain, and that the best thing to do was to support Huckabee in the hope that Huckabee could beat Romney in this winner-take-all state.

That account could add fuel to Romney’s claim that Huckabee is only undercutting his support base, and that a vote for Huckabee is a vote for McCain. Huckabee has fiercely denied that claim.

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Mc couldn’t win in WV, they know about his energy tax plan, and how it would wreck the coal industry.
Mc barely finishes ahead of Paul, knows he can’t win, bales, and asks his supporters to vote for Mike, and Mike gets the heat, and Mc gets off clean, while Mitt whines, after saying there is no whining in politics.
I disagree, I think Mike has an excellent chance, at least as good as Mitt’s, if you want to use the Rasmussen Report data on who beats B-HO or Billary.
I still think Mitt should drop out, and question not only his flip-flop history, but his motives. Mitt has spent over $30millions on this campaign, and Mike about $7millions. For one that is supposed to be such a smart investor, he isn’t getting much bang for his buck on this campaign. Unless there is a greater pay-off anticipated.
As for VP, Fred already has that locked up. When the story came out the day he dropped out, that he never intended to run for Prez, but for VP, and he never denied or refuted that story by Carl Cameron, and the fact that he hasn’t endorsed anyone yet, tells me he has the VP locked up, and is just waiting.
I hope this goes to the convention, before the nominee is decided, it would be the best solution. More time for the Mc delegates to come to their senses, and less time for the donks and the LameStreamMedia to zero in on the GOP choice.

I was actually going to say the same thing. I think you meant to say Romney, not McCain, correct?

The media still has influence on attitudes and opinions, and don’t doubt it.
This study certainly explains why Mc is up when he shouldn’t even be on radar, why B-HO is climbing, but it doesn’t explain why Mike is doing better than Mitt. Mike is almost invisible on the national media, but is having a strong day, even Lord Rove agrees. If Mike had the money for ad buys like Mitt, along with media coverage, there is no telling where he would be.

N2L — I hope you’re right about Huckabee. This kind of back-room deals don’t belong in the GOP. It feels like the voters are being subverted.

I also hope you’re right about Fred being McCain’s VP choice. That would make McCain much more palatable.

Honestly, Mike doesn’t like Mc one little bit. If you had just seen the interview with Mike and Chris Wallace on Fox, you would have detected it, like Brit and the boys did. Mc was able to pull a fast one, and make Mike look bad in the process, and he walked away clean.
Fred is just waiting to see who wins, he’s already auditioned for the job.
As for what does or doesn’t belong in the GOP, the DNC, or anywhere doesn’t matter that much to me. I’m a conservative, not a Republican. If they have to get in the mud-pit to settle this, then break out Orville and his son.
Mitt’s performance speaks to his past record and now claiming to be a total conservative. He was for the assault weapon ban when Clintoon was in office, and now he’s opposed to it, and on and on. Still, I thought his money and business experience would bring him more votes, and I was wrong.

I still think Mike has a chance to win it all…nothing is impossible.

I hope Mike Huckabee takes the Republican nomination…then we can look forward to a Democrat in the white house.

Really John?
So that’s why the NY Slimes endorsed McCain?

Here’s an interesting article about the ethically challenged donk frontrunner. BTW, when she served on the Nixon impeachment team, she was a political appointee, she failed the D.C. bar exam.

when she served on the Nixon impeachment team, she was a political appointee, she failed the D.C. bar exam.

Uh, so?

You really will try anything, won’t you? FYI, currently about 1/2 of the first-time applicants fail the DC bar.

This study certainly explains why Mc is up when he shouldn’t even be on radar, why B-HO is climbing,

That is the most reductive media analysis I’ve been subjected to. Are you suggesting that Obama and McCain shouldn’t have gotten coverage for winning SC the week before?

Apparently the truth has a well-known liberal bias.

So that’s why the NY Slimes endorsed McCain?

I can’t even guess what conspiracy you seem to be alluding to here.

John — If When Hillary gets the nomination, it doesn’t really matter who the GOP nominee is.

Hillary is the most unelectable candidate in the GE of all the remaining candidates (except maybe for Dr. Ron Paul).

You really will try anything, won’t you? FYI, currently about 1/2 of the first-time applicants fail the DC bar.

Many people who could not get into an accredited law school take the DC bar and fail, resulting in a low bar exam passage rate. What was Clinton’s excuse?

Robbie: there is absolutely no way Mike Huckabee will be elected President. Ever. If he gets the nom, you’ll see a surge of normally apathetic young voters rising up to take the country back from the brink of insanity.

Much like my theory that the quickest way to end the Iraq war would be to institute a draft.

Preston, not only did Shrillary fail the exam, she fled D.C. shortly after, not attempting it again, but instead moving to Arkansas and taking the BAR there, which had a much higher pass to failure rate. As for me trying anything, I don’t have to, that is old info just a click away for anybody to find. What’s even funnier is, not only did she fail and not try again, but she never even told her alleged closest friends or associates, until she mentioned it in passing in one of her books.
You don’t see any correlation to media exposure and a rise in public support, then you don’t see it. Doesn’t surprise me.
Conspiracy theory? It’s been widely reported on, as well as a thread about it here last week. The liberal media loves to promote Mc as the GOP front runner, because they will turn on him the instant he gets the nomination, if he does. They love to promote him as a “maverick” when he goes against his own party, but they don’t treat a “maverick” in their own party the same way, they ran Lieberman out, remember.

John, I know you believe that, being cocooned in the walled fortress of liberalism in Texas.
Those young voters that they always say will vote, for whatever the latest liberal outrage of the day is, never show up. Besides, with Shrillary as the nominee, I don’t think you have factored in the enormous liberal malaise that will set in.
Predictions are useless, but vote counts aren’t.

N2L: First of all, I’d say it’s an extremely long shot that Huckabee will even get the nom in the first place. Secondly, WHAT fortress of liberalism in Texas? Being a liberal has nothing to do with it, first of all, and secondly, I’ll have you know that I consider myself only slightly left of center on most issues. I don’t surround myself with wailing lib-tards or shrill neocons. Not every college student is an easily led drone.

Many rational people of all stripes, including my parents (dyed-in-the-wool conservatives for longer than I’ve been alive, and fairly devout Christians to boot), would never vote for Huckabee.

It doesn’t have to do with left or right. It has to do with pulling the country away from the edge of theocracy.

John, of course it is a long shot, but not impossible.
I don’t share your fear that Mike would lead us into a theocracy. Actually, I don’t think religion is as nearly important in this race as some have expressed. Evangelicals have supported Mitt in good numbers, as have many Catholics, even though Mc gets as many Catholic votes, due to the Hispanics love for Mc’s open border/amnesty stance.
Seventy-five percent of this country states they are Christian, and around 85% say they attend some form of religious service each week. This is already a religious country, and in my view is one of the single greatest advantages we have as a nation, and why I think it has been and will continue to be strong.

I don’t have anything against the practice of religion, I just want it kept out of the public sphere and I don’t want our country run based on what the Bible says or what God “told” Huck to do.

Not the most likely scenario but once you get the ball rolling how does it stop?

I take issue with your statement that this is a “religious” country, but regardless, our government is, was always intended to be, and should remain, SECULAR.

If I had to make a choice between a theocracy (based on Christianity) or socialism (such as Hillary and Obama would rather us be) — I’d take theocracy any day.

I’m an agnostic, but I ackowledge and respect (deeply) the Christian values and morals that this country was founded upon, and is still the guiding principal for the vast majority of today’s citizens.

N2L is right — we’re the greatest nation on this planet precisely because of our adherence to Christian values.

John, take issue if you want, but your statement that our government was always intended to be secular is not true, if you go back and look at the words of the founding fathers.

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
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It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.
George Washington

Separation of church and state is not in the Constitution, but was an idea advanced by Thomas Jefferson in a letter to a church, it has become a metaphor.
What was intended, and is still now what those who understand it, a fear of a state sponsored religion. A good example for contemporary times would be the political religion known as islam.

Yeah exactly, N2L. That’s why I find it so interesting that you and your cronies decrying a Muslim theocracy find no qualms for following the exact same path. If you really think a Christian theocracy would be much better than a Muslim one you’re sadly mistaken.

And I’d say we’re the greatest nation on earth precisely because up to this point in our history, we’ve kept religion and government in their respective spheres.

John, you just don’t get it, for whatever reason.
There is no national religion in this country, but it is the intentions of the irreconcilable wing of islam to do just that.
Don’t you pay attention to what is going on at all?
That’s what the whole GWOT is all about, to keep that from happening.
Mike loves this country, and is guided by his beliefs, if you believe he is trying to force his beliefs on others, then you are being irrational.

To put it simply: As it goes with American evangelicals, so it will go with western civilization.
It’s long, but a good piece.
Also, keep in mind the “Crusades” were a reaction to the Arab-Islamic Invasion, not the cause of it.

There is no national religion in this country, but it is the intentions of the irreconcilable wing of islam to do just that.
Don’t you pay attention to what is going on at all?
That’s what the whole GWOT is all about, to keep that from happening.

Great, so we’re spending a TRILLION dollars in Iraq to protect us from a complete fantasy.

If you really think a Christian theocracy would be much better than a Muslim one you’re sadly mistaken.

This might be one of the most ill-informed and ignorant statements I’ve ever heard anybody (who wasn’t a Muslim) say.

• What happens when you insult the prophet Muhammad? Muslims go berserk and start blowing shit up and killing people.
• What happens when you insult Jesus or Christians? Nothing. It happens everyday on television and in the movies. And nobody dies and buildings don’t get bombed.
• What would Christians do for homosexuals? Pray for them. Try to convert them. Read them some scripture.
• What do Muslims do? Cut off their heads? Bury them alive beneath concrete walls.
• What would Christians do to a woman who had been raped? Pray for her. Help her spiritually and medically/physically.
• What do Muslims do to women that are raped? Sentence them for adultery, and stone them to death.
• What would Christians do to the non-Christians in their midst? Pray for them, try to convert them by preaching the word of God. If that fails, they’ll just continue to pray for them.
• What do Muslims do to non-Muslims? Invite them to join Islam. Or submit to it (and pay a heavy dhimmi tax). Failing that, cut your head off.
• Christians love children and the mentally ill. Muslim jihadis use them as suicide bombs.

Here’s what a Muslim theocracy under Sharia law gets you:

“…Two Iranian sisters convicted of adultery face being stoned to death after the supreme court upheld death sentences [by stoning] against them, Iranian media have reported.

The two sisters were found guilty of adultery – a capital crime in Iran – after the husband of one of the pair presented a video showing them in the company of other men while he was away.

The Etemad newspaper quoted Jabbar Solati, their lawyer, as saying that the sisters had initially been tried for “illegal relations” and had received 99 lashes. However, they were convicted of “adultery” in a second trial for the same incident.

The pair admitted they were in the video but argued there was no adultery as no scene on the video showed them engaged in a sexual act.”

If you can’t see the difference between the peaceful, loving, and forgiving religion of Christianity and the death-cult of Islam — you’re sadly naive.

The destruction of all western culture is a fantasy, Preston?
Sux to be you.