A Reeaaalllly Dumb Question???
| Now why would we want the Loser, to the Loser in 08 – to be our Republican Nominee in 2012??? now Mitt was supposedly the rightful nominee in 08 but along came that shiesterHuckster and we got stuck w/ McLame right? – just like now Santorum is the rightful (conservative) nominee and along comes Newtie and we could get stuck w/ Mittens right? hmmmmm……. so i guess Newt is the present day Perot, and Mitt is BillyBoyClinton – kinda fits too, they’re both moderates….. |
Publius Prime 
The answer’s been answered, but for the record, here is the answer again:
The McCain and Huckabee campaigns collaborated with each other through the 2008 delegate process in order to keep delegates from Romney who was a strong contender for the republican nomination and rivaled McCain throughout the 2008 primary. It was widely thought by many that the McCain campaign instructed their delegates to switch over to Huckabee in order to avoid a Romney victory. In the state of WV, Romney was ahead by a wide margin in the polls. Since McCain was significantly ahead of Huckabee nationally, but only ahead of Romney by 17 delegates, McCain could easily give up the WV delegates to Huckabee, but not to Romney. In the end, Huckabee won the WV vote with 52%, Romney finished second with 47%, and McCain–whose support went to Huckabee–with only 1% of the vote.
See also what Glenn Beck and others have said on this same topic:
http://conservativesamizdat.blogspot.com/2011/04/mike-huckabee-did-collaborate-with-john.html
See also section “Relationship with McCain campaign”:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Huckabee_presidential_campaign,_2008
By the way, you haven’t answered the question of why you want a loser who lost in his own Pennsylvania senate seat? Or a disgraced former speaker of the house??
HA you wish – still have not answered my dumb question though EE…???…….
Ha ha nice try. Santorum’s the mclame in this matchup. Gringorich couod be the huckster. But I think mitt is so far out ahead on this one, not gonna matter.
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