Super Tuesday February 7, 2008
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Observations based on a life in politics and working in the U.S. Congress:
Huckabee has known for a long time that he can’t win the nomination. He’s staying in it to wield his delegates at the convention to bargain McCain into the VP spot, or, if he can’t, some juicy cabinet post. Remember, Huckabee is unemployed. He needs a job.
By staying in before Super Tuesday, Huckabee has made it clear that he doesn’t give a rat’s ass about the future of the Republican Party or of constitutional government, for that matter (McDole, sorry, McCain, will destroy both). If he did, he would have dropped out before Super Tuesday and endorsed Romney. Instead, he stayed in, knowing he would draw off votes from Romney, killing his candidacy. Two perceived conservatives against one “moderate,” given the GOP primary vote, means the “moderate” wins. By continuing his candidacy, the Huckster killed off Romney while sucking up to McCain in a patently obvious ploy to be VP.
What he fails to realize is that McCain won’t pick him as VP. Two reasons:
First, he brings nothing substantial to the ticket. He’s McCain’s clone on the key domestic issues of immigration, taxes and spending and on foreign policy, which is, keep spending gazillions of taxpayers’ money on the various wars and in Empire Building.
Second, the vice-presidency, in the words of one who held the office (Cactus Jack Garner) “ain’t worth a bucket of warm spit.” That goes for the VP candidate as well. One of the most seductive political siren songs to presidential nominees is that whom you choose as your running mate means something. You have to “balance the ticket.”
Baloney. History spanks that approach every time. The fact is, nobody casts their vote based on who the vice presidential candidate is. If McCain picks The Huckster, thinking he’s going to get conservative support, he’s picking somebody who agrees with him on almost all the issues conservatives hate McCain for.
I agree that Huckabee was blatantly sabotaging Romney’s chances and stacking the deck for McCain. It was not a surprise though considering Huckabee’s past. I believe McCain is the worst thing that could possibly happen to the integrity of the Republican party. To say he is a moderate republican is bologna. There is nothing that makes him anything but liberal. McCain-Feingold, the “league of 14″, McCain-Kennedy, pathetic border patrol as border state legislator, fiscal spender…the ONLY thing I can see that makes him ANY better than Hillary is his health care plan. Other than that it may be worse for him to win than Hillary or Obama. If he gets it, then there will be times that congressional republicans are forced to go along with him for party reasons and will not be able to oppose demolition of conservative statutes. At least if a Dem is president, congress can vote against the garbage…sorry for the rant…just can’t believe the party let this happen.