The Huckabee Delusion

[Gan]

In an interview with 1200 WOAI news during his swing through Texas, longshot Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee outlined a strategy which has him not winning the GOP nomination outright, but pushing the nomination to the September Republican National Convention, which he says will turn to him as the most ‘conservative alternative.’

The ‘brokered convention’ plan is in stark contrast to Huckabee’s previous sunny predictions of a sweep to victory in the primaries and caucuses on the shoulders of adoring family values conservatives.

Huckabee said his ‘brokered convention’ strategy is predicated on a victory in Texas, the country’s largest Republican state.

“We think Texas is an important state,” Huckabee told me. “We know how important it is to win Texas.”

Huckabee says with an upset win in Texas, and a win in the Ohio Republican primary the same day, Huckabee could deny front runner John McCain the nomination in the primaries.

“If we win Texas, I think it changes the dynamics of this race. It could well go all the way to the convention. If the convention delegates pick the president, chances are they would pick the most conservative. I would be the one they would end up picking, if that’s the criteria.”


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I wonder if he thinks he can walk 7 times around Texas, victory will be guaranteed...

Good old Huckabee, remember - he majored in miracles not mathematics.

Seriously enough, he and Ron Paul need to team up - they'd make a great couple.

Fucking wow.

[Warriorbird]

If he actually had a chance it'd mean something. I hope he decides to make a third party. I doubt even he'd be that dumb though.

[Warriorbird]

He's ultimately a pretty scary thing. Totally religious bonkers... totally not economically a Republican.

As a Rolling Stone reporter said


Mike Huckabee represents something that is either tremendously encouraging or deeply disturbing, depending on your point of view: a marriage of Christian fundamentalism with economic populism. Rather than employing the ­patented Bush-Rove tactic of using abortion and gay rights to hoodwink low-­income Christians into supporting patrician, pro-corporate policies, Huckabee is a bigger-government Republican who emphasizes prison reform and poverty relief. In the world of GOP politics, he represents something entirely new — a cross between John Edwards and Jerry Falwell, an ordained Southern Baptist preacher who actually seems to give a shit about the working poor.

But Huckabee is also something else: full-blown nuts, a Christian goofball of the highest order. He believes the Earth may be only 6,000 years old, angrily rejects the evidence that human beings evolved from "primates" and thinks America wouldn't need so much Mexican labor if we allowed every aborted ­fetus to grow up and enter the workforce. To top it off, Huckabee also left behind a record of ethical missteps in the swamp of ­Arkansas politics that make White­water seem like a jaywalking ticket.

[Latrinsorm]

I thought of part of this before, but when Obama wins the nomination and Bill Clinton leads a splinter group of racist white people from the Democrats (not that I think he himself is racist), it would be extremely fitting to have a Hilary/Huckabee ticket.

[Parkbandit]

I thought of part of this before, but when Obama wins the nomination and Bill Clinton leads a splinter group of racist white people from the Democrats (not that I think he himself is racist), it would be extremely fitting to have a Hilary/Huckabee ticket.


You should have kept thinking about it.

[Davenshire]

Just a thought and a fear I should really read up on.

John McCain is 71 years old. What happens if he dies of old age or an act of god whatever before the Convention. Won't the next highest delegate holder then take the lead? Or will all the delegates have the option of going wherever they want to.

I know that + huckabee/Romney scares the snot out of me.


May John McCain live a long time!

[Gan]

That scenario = President Obama.

[Lysander]

This country is great though. Some black man named Barack Hussein Obama who studied in a madrasa (muslim catholic school basically) has a very high chance of becoming President of the US. If this happened in Europe there would be total civil war ( I know, I lived in Stuttgart for 2 years).

[Tsa`ah]

This country is great though. Some black man named Barack Hussein Obama who studied in a madrasa (muslim catholic school basically) has a very high chance of becoming President of the US. If this happened in Europe there would be total civil war ( I know, I lived in Stuttgart for 2 years).

Do you believe everything sent to you in e-mail? Or are you jerking our chains?