Everyone’s Entitled to Their Delusion, Part II
Mike Huckabee is finally flipping his lid. Check out this answer in his interview with Howard Fineman:
Fineman: How do you answer people who say that you ensured John McCain’s nomination by hurting Mitt Romney?
Huckabee: I find it amazing that people would say that I “hurt” Romney. Could it not be that he hurt me? Had he not been in South Carolina—and if Fred Thompson had not been there—I would have won. Would it have changed the universe for me? Yes, it would have. Why is it that my candidacy should disappear? Who is it that has the right to pull the plug on it? Is it my critics? My critics never supported me, so why would I sit around and act according to the chorus of critics? I’d rather act according to the chorus of my supporters.
As I said here, the nomination race is over. At this point, Gov. Huckabee would have to win 83.3 percent of the remaining delegates to win the nomination; McCain only has to win 40 percent of those delegates. What are the odds that both those things will happen? He has the right to continue but it’s unrealistic for him to think he’ll win.
What’s particularly unbecoming is his playing the ‘If my opponents hadn’t been in the race, I would’ve won’ card. Mitt Romney and Fred Thompson both had more credentials to be president than Gov. Huckabee has. Sen. Thompson has tons of foreign policy experience, federalist principles and a habit of cutting wasteful spending in Wsahington. And he voted to balance the federal budget four consecutive years.
Mitt Romney took over the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics when they were filled with corruption. He had to deal with the security of world’s athletes in the aftermath of 9/11. He built Bain Capital from the ground up. He has a long legacy of accomplishments.
Mike Huckabee has a quick wit and a mixed history of cutting and raising taxes. And he thinks that he’s the one who should be president? Shame on him for thinking that.
What’s been true all along is that Mike Huckabee’s never been more than a likeable second tier candidate. His sense of humor and his position on the disaster known as the Fair Tax are the only things that kept him in the race.
That’s hardly the resume of a first tier presidential candidate. That’s the resume of a first tier presidential wannabe.
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Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog
February 10th, 2008 at 7:44 am
RON PAUL FOR PRESIDENT!
WOOOHOOOOOOOO!
Who cares about Huckabee?!
RON PAUL BABY.
February 10th, 2008 at 2:15 pm
This is from Washington Post yesterday:
Fred Thompson Backs McCain
By Michael D. Shear
[Fred Thompson, the one-time Republican presidential candidate, endorsed Sen. John McCain Friday, calling on the party to "close ranks" behind the presumed nominee.
"This is no longer about past preferences or differences. It is about what is best for our country and for me that means that Republican should close ranks behind John McCain," Thompson said in a statement reported by the Associated Press...
The endorsement now may help McCain to coalesce the factions of the party around him. Thompson, who represented Tennessee in the Senate for eight years, is thought of well in the South, an area that McCain has not done well in.]
February 10th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
YOU are the one who is “flipping his lid.” McCain is about as welcome as AIDS to at least a third of the Republican base and he has no chance of winning—I am a man of some means and I’m willing to wager several thousand dollars on McCain losing if you want in. That “nutty” Huckabee is running a close second ought to give you a clue as to just how little hard core support McCain has. The Republicans sold us all out, we all hope they lose and rot in hell, and it is they who may have destroyed the country with their lies and incompetence.
February 10th, 2008 at 8:47 pm
Once again Fred is the only one with a lick of sense.
February 11th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
I too support Ron Paul.