Huckabee says McCain made “huge mistake” suspending his campaign and trying to delay debate

1 comment September 26th, 2008

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who unsuccessfully vied with John McCain and a raft of other candidates for the Republican presidential nomination, SAYS it was a “huge mistake” for McCain to suspend his campaign and seek postponement of the debate scheduled for tonight.

“You can’t just say, ‘World stop for a moment. I’m going to cancel everything,’” Huckabee said.

Well, I guess this means Mike Huckabee won’t be John McCain’s running mate

2 comments May 16th, 2008

Any notions Mike Huckabee might have had about running for vice president on the Republican ticket probably died with the stupid joke he told today about somebody pointing a gun at Barack Obama.

As I said here the other day, I don’t figure John McCain would have picked Huckabee for the second slot anyway.  This should pretty much cinch it.

HERE’s the story about the joke.

UPDATE: Here’s a video of Huckabee delivering his thigh-slapper:

Oh, yes! Please, please, let this happen!

8 comments May 13th, 2008

Frankly, I don’t think John McCain is so dim as to make THIS CHOICE — but we can hope, can’t we?

Predictions for Do-or-Die Tuesday

1 comment March 3rd, 2008

Here’s the deal: Barack Obama is a cinch to win in Texas and Vermont, while Hillary Clinton likely will win in Ohio and Rhode Island.

If Hillary somehow loses in Ohio (which could happen if the bad weather expected there holds down turnout among her supporters more than among Obama’s), her candidacy is over.

John McCain will easily defeat Mike Huckabee in the Republican contests, but voter turnouts on the GOP side will be relatively slim, as has been the case all along this season.

Huckabee might want to look into this

Add comment February 18th, 2008

We’ve got a looming moral crisis HERE, folks, and it cries out for Mike Huckabee or some similarly righteous busybody to rally America’s forces of decency for the battle against the evil agenda of the gay hordes.

Running on empty

2 comments February 6th, 2008

THIS makes sense to me.

McCain wins Fla.; donnybrook looms

2 comments January 29th, 2008

For John McCain, the Republican presidential primary in Florida was a do-or-die situation, and HE DID IT, defeating Mitt Romney and the rest of the field by a respectable margin.

The victory makes McCain the front-runner for the nomination, but much of the party’s conservative base still despises him and likely will redouble efforts to stop him.

That end would be well-served if Mike Huckabee got out of the race, but he said tonight that he’s in for the long haul, even though he, too, dislikes McCain.

Huckabee’s candidacy is a lost cause, to be sure, but the votes he  garnered in Florida apparently helped McCain stave off Romney.

Rudy Giuliani, who predictably finished a distant third in Florida,  likely will drop out soon and endorse McCain.

The Republican race remains, if not wide open, still competitive as the campaign moves forward to Feb. 5. It’s going to be fun to watch the fur fly.

Florida prediction

Add comment January 29th, 2008

Today’s Republican presidential primary in Florida is fraught with suspense and implications.

The winner will become the clear front-runner for the nomination, and Rudy Giuliani will have to do well or fold his tent.

I’m not terribly confident of this prediction, but I wouldn’t be surprised if Mitt Romney  prevails over John McCain by 4 or 5 percentage points.

Romney’s momentum going into Feb. 5 will be greater than McCain would enjoy if he were the winner in Florida.  Understand, McCain still has a big problem with the party’s right-wing establishment, and he’s constantly demonized  on talk radio.

This crowd sees Romney as the only guy who can stop McCain.  Yes, some of them would have preferred Fred Thompson, but he’s out of the race. Can’t Huckabee do it?  He’s out of the question because he scares the hell out of the party’s economic and foreign policy conservatives. And the even the social conservatives are a little nervous about his bleeding-heart populism.

So, if Mitt wins today, he’ll be the presumptive nominee, with McCain demoted to long-shot status.

And Rudy will be gone before the weekend.

It’s been a fun month, hasn’t it?  All this winnowing in both parties.  All these sudden swings from week to week. The record turnouts of voters.  No wonder the cable TV ratings for political news are soaring.

Flash! Huck woos finger-lickin’ vote

4 comments January 28th, 2008

Food for thought:

Mike Huckabee, who tried to ingratiate himself with South Carolina voters by claiming to share their love for FRIED SQUIRREL, is now SAYING that Mitt Romney doesn’t know how to eat fried chicken.

Matters like these are said to be important to Southern voters.

What happens when Rudy drops out?

Add comment January 24th, 2008

It’s becoming INCREASINGLY LIKELY that Rudy Giuliani will come in third or fourth in the Republican primary in Florida next Tuesday and will be finished as a presidential hopeful.

So where will his supporters go?

I think most of them would be naturally inclined to go with John McCain, whose image as something of a maverick is closest to Rudy’s.

But if Mitt Romney wins in Florida, he’ll have a momentum — a seeming inevitability — that could draw a lot of erstwhile Giuliani people.

In short, the bulk of the Giuliani crowd will gravitate to the side of whoever wins in Florida.  (And that winner won’t be Mike Huckabee.  He’s history.)

As I said here last week, I  expect Romney to be the nominee.  McCain’s problem is that he needs independent voters to prevail.  But some of the upcoming primaries are open only to registered Republicans, many of whom aren’t too keen on McCain.

Moreover, in some of the states where independents will be allowed to participate in the Republican primaries, McCain will find himself in competition with Democrat Barack Obama for those voters.