Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has been trying to bolster his flagging campaign by spreading the word that a vote for former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee is actually a vote for Arizona Sen. John McCain, but wouldn't that work the other way, as well?
Consider, Huckabee is running well in many of the states in which voting will take place Tuesday and is considered a much more accessible, less self-serving candidate than Romney. So wouldn't it be just as simple for conservatives to rally around Huckabee, who isn't a johnny come lately to conservative viewpoints like Romney, and who has shown an ability to connect with voters without throwing millions of dollars of his own money into his campaign.
Romney's a desperate candidate who realizes this is his one shot at the presidency and it's slipping away from him. He also is the scariest of the candidates remaining in the 2008 presidential race.
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An addition: Fox News Channel just showed the national poll results which have McCain leading by a sizable margin with 34 percent over Romney at 21.6 and Huckabee at 19.8. In other words, Huckabee is in a statistical tie with Romney when the margin of error is considered, but FNC's Carl Castle kept hammering on the idea that Huckabee was taking votes away from Romney and made Huckabee sound like some kind of villain for remaining in the race. At the same time, Castle estimated that Romney has spent $50 million of his vast fortune on the race and he can't pull away from Huckabee. Sounds like a fiscal conservative to me.
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Matt Blunt has been saying don't waste your vote on Huckabee.
Poll are polls. Rasmussen shows Romney and McCain tied at 30% nationally with Hucklebee rather far behind at 21%.
You have it backwards.
Every vote for Huckabee is a vote for John McCain.
Both Huckabee and McCain will throw us all under the bus when it comes to illegal immigration.
I live in Arizona. You have no clue what a disaster open borders has been. No clue at all.
Both McCain and Huckabee are only too happy to sell this country's sovereignty and financial future for $.10 on the dollar to please a foreign country run by a corrupt government.
I know Mexico.
I also know John McCain.
PLEASE DON'T DO THIS TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE!!
Huckabee's just haning in for a VP nomination from McCain - he's not thinking about America's future - only his own.
Whether a McCain/Huckabee ticket wins or loses the election - it is a guaranteed loser for the American people.
Step back and take a bigger look at the picture.
Polls are polls. Take a walk back through history and see how many times the polls were wrong. Research Huckabee and Romney to see who has the best record being govenors of thier states. Who was in office longest? Huckabee comes out ahead everytime. Do some homework! Take time to really listen to Huckabee, then search your heart and then vote for the man who has our country's best interest at heart. Mike Huckabee
Sunshine,
You want me to "search my heart". Oh great.. a touchy, feely liberal response.
Anyone who would sell my COUNTRY out is not someone I will EVER support. Huckabee will do just that.
Except that Huckabee is only a conservative in the Bible thumping sense. Actually, they're both drawing votes away from the most principled conservative to run for President since 1996.
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