Mike Huckabee Feigns Ignorance — Knows His ONLY Role is as “Spoiler” — It is Now Time to Marginalize Mike!
I just saw a ticker on TV that said, quoting Mike Huckabee:
“Why do they say that Huckabee is a spoiler to Mitt Romney? Why don’t they say that Mitt Romney is a spoiler to Mike Huckabee?”
Mike, here is why:
In Florida, you only got 4% of the non-evangelical vote, and of all the evangelicals you court, you only got 29% of their votes. Your Florida results were totally in line with the prior states’ voting. As an identity-candidate, what other function does your candidacy serve besides that of a spoiler? Of course you know you can never win with less than 10% of all non-evangelical votes!
Contrast this slice with Romney’s results: 29% of all evangelicals’ votes and 34% of all non-evangelicals’ votes. Oh, and Mike, this just in from the Maine Caucuses:
- Mitt Romney 53% of the Vote
- John McCain took 22%
- Ron Paul came in at 19%
- Mike Huckabee at 5%
Indeed, you hope to be a spoiler, and a cunning one at that.
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Never, never, never underestimate the viral, synergistic power of grassroots determination. We can make it happen for Governor Romney.
~ Vic
February 2nd, 2008 at 11:33 pm
Hucks camp is all thrilled about their endorsement. ummm ok
Judy Martz
Martz had her fair share of scandals, off-color statements, and questionable activities while she was in office, many of which led to her low approval rating during the remaining years of her term as governor (which were as low as 20% at one point;[2]).
Her chief policy adviser, Shane Hedges, was involved in a drunk driving accident near Marysville, Montana in August 2001, after which he went to Martz’s residence, where she washed his clothes. House Majority Leader Paul Sliter died in the accident. Martz’s policy advisor promptly resigned and pled guilty to a charge of negligent homicide. Martz also was put under a state-wide microscope when a real estate deal between the Martzes and ARCO was uncovered. The Martz family had a ranch that adjoined another large parcel of land that was owned by the ARCO company, at that time ARCO sold that land at an allegedly low value to the Martz family. The state Democratic Party alleged that Martz had assisted ARCO in her position as Lieutenant Governor. The Montana Commissioner of Political Practices found that the allegations lacked merit.
February 3rd, 2008 at 12:14 am
All three of these clowns are as liberal as they come;
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February 3rd, 2008 at 12:15 am
ATTENTION SHERRI,
I left you a message at a “Tough Call”. I was working with a volunteer at the phone banks in SLC and he was asking all of his anti mormon calls to please read or listen to Mitt Romneys speech on religion. I am sure they can find it at Mitt Romney.com or on you tube. He was having some success with this. I am going to listen again, write down some quotes and share them next time I get an anti mormon voter and then invite them to listen to the speech. That speech was so powerful and very touching.
February 3rd, 2008 at 12:25 am
Another voting fraud happened in FL. More than 300,000 independents voted for McCain on 1/29/08 in Dade and Broward Counties. The Florida State Election Division is investing on this…..
Get this news out ASAP vic…. McCain is enjoying his victory now, but his FL victory is infulencing the Republicans now…..this needs to be out immediately before it is too late…
February 3rd, 2008 at 12:46 am
Vic-
Is the Romney campaign investigating Flordia for any illegal voting?
February 3rd, 2008 at 1:27 am
Yea i read one gray haired pollster complain that she was given orders the day before that independents should be allowed to vote.
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_012908/content/01125107.guest.html.guest.html
heres rush talking about it.
I’m all for independents voting but i think we all know most of these are liberals meddling with the GOP nomination. When the election comes and theres a D on the ticket we all know which way these will vote weather McCain is on the ticket or not. McCain still hasn’t won the conservative or republican vote in any of the primaries.
February 3rd, 2008 at 1:32 am
also
http://race42008.com/2008/01/29/independents-voting-in-florida/
February 3rd, 2008 at 1:38 am
Romney gets all positive press and plenty of it. The only press Huckabee gets is negative and very rarely positive. The media has picked McCain and Romney as the two front runners by virtue of the amount of positive press they give them. If Huckabee received the same amount of positive press as the other candidates I firmly believe he would be one of the top two. The press focuses on him being a former Baptist minister and on his religion in general. They never talk about his 10 yeas as governor. You don’t hear anything about Romney being a morman. I like Huckabee- I will write him in if I have to- I’m not a super Tuesday state. I would not vote for Romney if Huckabee wasn’t on my ballot. I would vote for McCain over Romney- so please stop saying that Huckabee is taking votes away from Romney. You ask the majority of Huckabee supporters and they will NOT vote for Romney if Huckabee is gone.
February 3rd, 2008 at 8:45 pm
Anita, please.
Everybody knows Huckabee is McCain’s lackee. Fred Thompson had way more and broad support than Huck and he dropped out because he knew he could not win. Rudy Giuliani had way more and broader support than Huck and he dropped out because he knew he could not win. Huck cannot even garner more than 5% of all evangelical votes and he knows he cannot win and he will not drop out.
Why is that Anita? He has clearly made a deal with McCain as a Romney spoiler all the way. Huck’s problem is that he is now being marginalized by voters. Look at his horrible performance in Maine. He is losing ground in southern states now too.
Clearly Anita, the anti-Mormon voters are hiding behind Huckster. Everybody knows it. He preached in Salt Lake City against the Mormons. You and Huck think everybody is naive to it? You are right —> The only true bigots (I presume you are not one) left in America would rather place the liberal McCain in office and quite possibly place in office a man who would not nominate an Alito, causing a further migration away from strict constitutionalists on the Court. There is only one reason Huck supporters would vote for the totally liberal McCain over Romney: Religious Intolerance (with few exceptions, of which you may be one).
Consider this Anita, had the Mormons taken the approach many (a small minority of them by the way) evangelicals have taken with Romney, Al Gore would have won big and we would not have had Bush. The strident religious intolerance of many evangelicals in this nation are attempting to divide people by religion are totally willing to “cut their noses off to spite their faces.”
Visit the honest-in-heart and read the articles by orthodox evangelicals who are promoting Romney and why. Read their mission statement. Your vote for Huckabee definitely is a vote for McCain. Clearly it is McCain you support in the end and that is fine. He is the most arrogant, self-righteous, hot tempered, back-stabbing, condescending man to ever run for the office of President. You can support him all you want, but he will go down in flames against either of the Dems because no liberal Republican has ever beaten a true liberal in an election. Whatever your reasons for not supporting Romney, remember this: Romney has never been in trouble with the law. Huck was indicted how many times? Huck has lived off the government or parishoners his entire life. I believe he is staying in the race because he is afraid of what he will do to earn a living if he drops out. Right now he is living off the contributions of honest supporters like you.
You will like this site —-> EvangelicalsForMitt.org
February 4th, 2008 at 12:22 am
Vic,
I’ll share a few things with you. First, I am not an evangelical. I am a believer but not an evangelical. As of yet, I have not contributed to any campaign- mostly because I need all my pennies to pay for $3.58/gallon milk, $2.10/dz eggs and $2.89/gallon gas.
I don’t care that Romney is a Mormon- I care about that fact that he seems to be unsure of his convictions. I understand that people can grow in their beliefs and convictions and things change as you mature. That would explain why I thought abortion was OK when I was in college but now I’m against it- I don’t see my views ever changing back to pro-abortion. Of course, I’m just barely old enough to even run for President. What I can’t figure out about Romney is his change of convictions at an age when his beliefs should be rock solid. He seems to blow in the direction of the wind and not stand firm in what he believes. The other thing about Romney is his lack of governmental experience. I don’t believe that four years is enough. Tell me why he may lose his own state and why the major paper in Boston doesn’t even support him? What do they know that the rest of us American don’t? I know Romney was/is a large business owner, turned around the Olympics and has vast business experience but I don’t think running a country is like running a business. A business is out for profit and the bottom line. When you run a country you have to think about the person at the bottom and how the decisions at the top trickle down. I don’t feel that Romney can think like that.
You mentioned ‘everybody’ at least twice. I don’t know who ‘everybody’ is because I know I’m not included. You all can assume McCain and Huckabee made a deal- but until something is announced I won’t believe it or endorse it. I learned long ago what happens when you ‘ass-u-me’ anything.
I agree that McCain’s personality leaves a lot to be desired. He is definitely not my first choice- but since I’m only left with three he is my second choice. I will choose him based entirely on governmental experience- his military/ foreign relations experience doesn’t hurt either.
You never addressed what I said about press coverage. Do you think press coverage makes or breaks a candidate?
And finally, I found it interesting that the best thing you could tell me about Romney (maybe to sway me?) was that he has never been in trouble with the law? By the way, indicted doesn’t mean convicted- innocent until proven guilty.
February 4th, 2008 at 12:40 am
Anita, to your last paragraph, please read this objective and fair analysis and you will understand partly what all of us have known for over a year now:
http://politicalscene08.blogspot.com/2008/02/leadership-and-electability-indices.html
Be sure to examine carefully the two tables contained in the post. To view them clearly, be sure to just click on each table and they will expand.
Your first choice is actually McCain, because Huck cannot and will not win. No presidential candidate has ever been elected unless they garner a very high percentage of non-evangelical votes. Huck cannot garner more than 5%; you make up that 5% obviously. And though you are not a religious bigot, many still supporting Huck are.
February 4th, 2008 at 12:45 am
Anita, I forgot to answer your question as to why Romney. It would take me weeks to explain it all. Not to take anything away from Huck’s background earning a living from the government, but he is in the shadow of Romney as to accomplishments in his life.
Here is a start. In this link you will find some of the top pro-life (national), evangelical leaders of America including the most conservative minds of America. When you get to this site, be sure to scroll down the page to see what you would like to find:
http://myclob.pbwiki.com/Why%20I%20Support%20Mitt%20Romney%20for%20President
February 4th, 2008 at 12:56 am
Anita, yes, I agree on the MSM. McCain has all but been annointed the Republican nominee by the liberal MSM.
The reason frankly that Huck has been marginalized and not taken serious by the MSM is due to his obvious lack of foreign affairs knowledge and depth as he proved on several occasions when he stumbled badly in questions. Also, he is evasive in every direct question, preferring to deflect hard questions with humor and then go on the offensive.
Never has GMR said anything of a personal nature about Huck. Not one time. Just about everything Huck says in the news now, regarding GMR, is going downhill; it is almost always personal. None of it is based on any issues. Just tonight on Fox News at a news conference Huck went off on GMR invoking his populist talk referring to Romney as the rich man who wants to buy him and buy the election….. yada, yada, yada. He has NOTHING to talk about in the issues. His only offensive approach is to be offensive in nonsensical personal ways. That is his manner. It has been that way from day one and it is the way he is now.
A vote for Huckabee or Paul is definitely a vote for McCain. Therefore every supporter of Huckabee is definitely a supporter of McCain. Based on McCain’s recent statements of how he would not have nominated “an Alito”, we know for sure he will not nominate the strict constructionist judges that true conservatives will. If you have any intention of EVER overturning Row v. Wade, you FOR SURE do not want McCain. All true conservatives know that and the ones that don’t, we are trying to enlighten.
February 4th, 2008 at 2:28 am
Vic,
I went and visited the three links you suggested.
First, I didn’t ask ‘why Romney?’ but I went and read your reasons anyway. You are very articulate and made a clear case for Romney but I still don’t agree. There lies the beauty of America- we can disagree.
Second, I checked out the site with the charts. It would have been more interesting to me if Huckabee was included but then it doesn’t matter because I wouldn’t call the article “an objective and fair analysis” either. The writer should post it somewhere else and say ‘he is an undecided independent voter’- it would have more credibility. I love the part where the Romney supporter says that Romney is the standard he will compare the other candidates to.
Third, I visited EvangelicalsForMitt and found a few things worth a chuckle but it just made me realize it ultimately comes down to ‘who do you like the best’. They referred to Huckabee as the tax and spend guy. I find that funny because to me Romney is the ‘increase fees and leave a deficit guy’. It also mentioned other candidates and their crappy marriage records- but all I could think about is ‘Huckabee is still married to his High School sweetheart.’ There really wasn’t anything there to change my opinion.
Lastly, I won’t agree with you that a vote for Huckabee is a vote for McCain- Ron Paul maybe but not Huckabee. Only 7 states have voted so far- I will wait until after Tuesday before I may (or not) agree with you. At this point a vote for Huckabee is a vote for Huckabee. I will wait for the results on Tuesday- the polls have been seriously wrong recently and to drop out based on polls is ridiculous.
I’ll stop by after Tuesday to chat with you again.
February 6th, 2008 at 12:25 am
I really wish that Huckabee would stop! he would never win the nomination. He is so spoiling it for Romney…I am gonna do everything I can to show I support Mitt. I will put a sign in my yard…post on every blog I can think of. Post bulletins daily on my myspace….I am fed up with Huckabee spoiling…..
February 6th, 2008 at 4:54 pm
Hey Vic,
I said I would come back after Tuesday. I would like to share some of my thoughts if you will indulge me.
Let me say that both Romney and Huckabee performed well last night. Of course not as well as either one of us hoped- but well.
I want to say first that this is the first election year that I’ve been so involved in the primaries. I’ve always voted but I’ve never been involved and aware. I think I may go to my first political rally if the opportunity presents itself.
The main thing I want to address is the comment “a vote for Huckabee is a vote for McCain.” The spoiler reference is the main reason I responded to this article at all. Based on my inexperienced analysis (for Super Tuesday only) that comment only applies to California and Delaware. In California, Romney and Huckabee combined would have beat McCain by 83,774 votes. In Delaware, Romney and Huckabee combined would have beat McCain by 1,424 votes. If we want to turn it around and say that ‘a vote for Romney is a vote for McCain’- that only applies to Oklahoma. Huckabee and Romney combined would have beat McCain by 70,756 votes. The other states McCain would have won whether or not Romney or Huckabee had dropped out. McCain would have won CT by 18, 299; AZ by 18,893; IL by 18,244; NJ by 105,354; NY by 76,280 if the Huckabee/Romney votes were combined. Of course this assumes all of Huckabee’s votes would go to Romney or all of Romney’s votes would go to Huckabee which you and I both know would not happen. I didn’t include Missouri in my analysis since only 21,740 votes separated 1st place from 3rd place. If I wanted to be technical on that I could call Romney the spoiler for Huckabee. I only addressed the states where McCain was the winner since I’m addressing the spoiler reference. My conclusion is that it is not fair to refer to Huckabee or Romney as a spoiler. They both did very well in their own right.
Now here is my little pipe dream- cue some fluffy music. . .
I would like to see a Huckabee/ Romney ticket. I would love for Huckabee to call Romney and say “Lets have a man to man talk. Meet me at the hotel on 10th street, room 100- no family, no friends, no advisers, no press. Just you an me.” Then they spend however long it takes to sort through policies and positions. Huckabee can teach Romney all about the Fair Tax as it is written and Romney can teach Huckabee how to come across as an economic conservative even though he raised fees/taxes. Once all the details are hashed out they can do a joint press conference to share the President Huckabee / Vice-President Romney ticket. Then they can campaign the rest of the primaries together supporting each other and the general election. Maybe they can convince Ron Paul to endorse them and drop out. Ron Paul does have a small vocal following that would be useful. Huckabee and Romney need each other. Huckabee doesn’t have name recognition beyond the south and Romney is still perceived as a flip-flopper on the social conservative issues. At their press conference they can come out and say something like ‘they did the Christian thing and let bygones be bygones. The things said in the past were political maneuverings on both their parts. Now that the Super Tuesday vote is in they know they need each other to win the GOP nomination.’
Vic, I’ll stop there as this has turned into a rather long post. Thanks so much for taking the time to share your views in a very civil way. I’ve enjoyed our back and forth conversations.
Anita
Nebraska