Huckabee: A Deadlocked Convention is My Goal

[sabra]

Source: WOAI News

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.”

Read more: http://radio.woai.com/cc-common/news/sections/newsarticle.html?feed=119078&article=3314257

[Angela Shelley]

1. My goal is to be a millionaire, without working!

[TwilightGardener]

2. I wish the circus was over so this clown would go home.

[Finite]

3. Hey, don't knock this useful idiot

The longer he stays in the contest, the more it tears the Repubs apart.

[Angela Shelley]

4. Go, Hucky, Go!

[coalition_unwilling]

15. I toyed with switching my party registration to Repuke for the

California primary just so I could vote for HuckaJesus (for the pure entertainment value he provides) :)

[Javaman]

16. I want that convention locked so tight that...

extra strength exlax couldn't free it up!!

:rofl:

[Frank Cannon]

22. A LOT of fundie whackos are going to be mighty pissed off...

if this clown doesn't get the nomination.

For decades, the corporatocracy has been milking these fools for just about every dime they don't tithe to their churches. They've promised to end abortion, enforce male-female marriage, and bring the Bible back into the public schoolroom--all without ever REALLY intending to do a damn thing.

Now the chickens have finally come home to roost.

[bunkerbuster1]

20. I love the Huckster!

Don't ever change, babe.

[Tarc]

5. Are there any Texas polls for the Republican side?

I'd be curious to see how close he is to winning there over McCain. That'd be huge.

[RainDog]

6. hope he gets his wish

and I hope he wrests the nomination from the hawks. He's the talibornagain candidate and he's already made lots of commercials and speeches talking about altering the constitution to meet "god's standards," something the founders would have smacked down faster than Ann Coulter drops her skanky drawers.

The dems could and should use this to ask -- are we a democracy? and quote (with written words) founding statements about "no religious test" (with talibornagain republicans talking about their unwillingness to vote for anyone who's not them) and the Jefferson quote from the Danbury Bapt. church, and have pictures of democrats of all faiths together as a contrast.

I think, if Huckabee gets the nom, the northern repubs will HAVE TO cross party vote b/c they have SEEN what Bush's talibornagain pandering already got us... and if Huckabee gets the nom, dems should also show his remarks and Bush remarks to show that his issues are the same.

AND the Noah's Ark story at the Grand Canyon -- I mean, sure their are some dumb ass people who would be offended by noting that this isn't the right forum for such a story, but those who would be offended will not vote demo anyway, since they think we're = to satan.

It's a tricky issue to broach in the U.S., so I doubt dems will go for it, but Dean (kisseskisseskisses you smart and liberal man) could find a way to approach this... an "infomercial" in which Dean says the thing he got reamed for about Iraq, and then how he was telling the truth and was right, and let him talk about being right about religion as a matter of conscience, not state. He could talk about his protestant b.g. and his wife's Jewish b.g. to illustrate it's not right to inject one section of one belief (highlighting fundies aren't the only Christians, just the most vocal) to the exclusion of all others in matters of science, for instance. Science belongs in the classroom, religion belongs in church..

or show scores for U.S. kids in math and science and note the long, long fight with fundies about teaching evo. in the classroom, with clips of various judges who have ruled against this, and parents who aren't raging whatevers, but simply people who aren't stupid and don't want religion taught in a science class. Dean could highlight that he was a doctor and how imp. science is to discovering cures for disease, etc. and how the fundies waste money for schools, or whatever pushing this fight again and again and again when the issue has been settled in favor of evolution over and over again across the nation.

[jasmine621]

8. It might be "brokered" but he will not get the top of the ticket.

Watch for these names: Hagel, Hunter, Barbour. Hagel would be formidable against Obama or Hillary. I am really worried about McCain not being the GOP top of the ticket. I think either Hillary or Obama would whip the crap out of him, no matter who his running mate would be. If the Dem candidates are smart, their campaigns should be looking into the positions of the three men I just named and preparing a camapign focused on either of them. Romney will not be at the top but he might be the VP. The Christian right would never go for him at the top but they might take him as VP.

[katty]

7. good, let Huck run

[Zorro]

9. Huck Republicans

I like the sound of that.

Huck all Republicans, I say. Tag them as all religious nutjobs.

[McCamy Taylor]

10. Operation Brokered Republican Convention!

[Lone_Star_Dem]

11. You're not getting the respect you deserve, Huck.

You should just go third party and demand they take you seriously!

:rofl:

[yardwork]

12. I agree - Third party all the way. Run, Huck, run!

[Lone_Star_Dem]

13. There's no way they'd let him though

The man would "disappear" before that would happen.

I just read where even in Texas if the Republicans had a "conservative" third party choice it would divide their vote to the point either of our candidates would hold the majority.

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However, a conservative third-party candidate could skew the results -- and spell trouble for McCain, according to polling results. In that scenario, 19 percent of Texas poll respondents said they would vote for the third-party candidate, 37 percent for McCain and 41 percent for Obama.

If Clinton were the Democratic nominee, 23 percent said they would vote for the third-party candidate, 37 percent for McCain and 38 percent for Clinton.

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/02/21/texas.poll/

[MilesColtrane]

14. The man is delusional.

It's not going to happen, but thanks for staying in, Quixotabee.

[scarface2004]

17. hucknuts has my vote!

i hope he blows the repubs up real good!

[sofa king]

18. Yessss! Ssssnakes for Huckabee!

[thevoiceofreason]

19. Can I borrow this? I always want to give proper credit.

[sofa king]

26. Oh, in that case, you'd better credit the person I stole it from.

http://religionroundtable.blogspot.com/2007/05/snake-handling-on-rise-in-baptist.html

I usually capture the image and post it from my own mothership so that I don't hog the donor's bandwidth.

Judging by the superb sense of humor of the blogger in question, I doubt he or she would mind much.

[bunkerbuster1]

21. How funny would it be if Obama clinched before McStain?

Pretty damn funny, I think.

[Canuckistanian]

23. Woohoo! Go, Huck!

You show them bastids what it means to FIGHT!

[Endangered Specie]

24. yeah my goal is to lose weight and grow a 11 inch wiener.

see which one of us gets there first.

[goforit]

25. LOL!!!!......Huckabeee!!! Who WIILL have the last laugh???