Well, despite all the talking heads claiming that last night would blow Gov. Huckabee and Gov. Romney out of the race it appears to have made the likelihood of a brokered convention a certainty. Gov. Romney is going to stay in until the convention and Gov. Huckabee has committed to the same.I truly hope that Gov. Romney does stay in and fight. This thing is far from over. Gov. Romney won 7 states last night; Alaska, Colorado, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, Utah, and should have had West Virginia except for a backroom deal between McCain and Huckabee.
Given McCain's many liberal stances like McCain/Feingold, McCain/Lieberman and McCain/Kennedy I don't see him winning over the conservatives. Mike Huckabee has problems with anyone outside of Evangelicals, due to his flip flops on illegal immigration, taxation, national smoking ban and his compassionate, liberal agenda. This leaves a huge void that Romney can step into.
Romney has the ability to reach out to all facets of the Republican Party and can compete in any region of the nation. I do feel that he needs to stress his actual record as governor of Massachusetts more. He governed much more conservatively than is being portrayed by his opponents. While Gov. Huckabee and Senator McCain have governed and legislated to the left consistently.
The bottom line is we still have a long way to go. Us conservatives have to rally behind Gov. Romney. The Huckster has been able to convince many good conservatives that he is one of them. Trust me, I fell for it at first too.
Then I noticed that when he talks to liberal groups he pushes a nanny-stateism such as national smoking ban and environmental regulations that would increase the cost of gas and utilities and cause even more businesses to move over seas. Gov. Huckabee is also a strong supporter of open borders and so called compassionate conservatism. There is nothing conservative about that. The truth is, if you want to be compassionate you should be donating to the needy and volunteering your time; not expecting the government to take care of them with someone else's money.
Our nation is at a crossroad if we allow John McCain to win the nomination we unfortunately will live through a liberal agenda that will result in amnesty for 20 million illegal aliens and eventually citizenship for their relatives, global treaties that will further chip away at US sovereignty, and an increase in taxes.
The Democrats will get everything they want, but the Republicans will take all the blame. We have already been down that road with President Bush's no child left behind and failed amnesty. No matter how much President Bush gave the Democrats they attacked him as not having done enough. So the President squandered the Republican majority for nothing. Do we really want a President McCain or Huckabee who would be even worse because they actually hate conservatives?
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I will never understand how anyone can say that Mike Huckabee is conservative. His record as governor of Arkansas was not conservative, his campaign is not conservative, and his support for John McCain is not conservative.
Did you know that John McCain was endorsed by Republicans For Choice? Mike Huckabee's support for and willingness to team up with John McCain is the complete opposite of conservative.
If you want a pro-life, open-borders, hot-tempered, liberal President the vote for John McCain.
If you want an open-borders, pro-amnesty, tax-raising, nanny-state, religion-prejudiced, liberal President then vote for Mike Huckabee.
I agree with you. Conservatives either need to get behind Mitt Romney as the conservative candidate or prepare to vote third party.
I think you basically said it perfectly so I don't have much to add and I did hear on Rush about Republicans For Choice supporting McCain. I agree Huck is a complete sell out for supporting McCain.
Did see the new email out from Romney's campaign. I posted it, they are going to fight for the nomination. It is about time we seen some fight in a Republican. This thing is far from decided. We are going to win it.
While it is true that there were "backroom deals", don't think for a second that Romney's camp was not attempting the same thing. In fact, the Ron Paul people accepted Camp Huck's deal of three delegates after turning down Camp Mitt's offer of five delegates.
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Since Mitt's out of the race I am not going to argue with you on this. But, I do disagree. As for Huckabee, he needs to go run for Senate. He is young. If he wants to run again in 4 or 8 years he can. But, he needs to prove that he is actually a conservative. He can start by getting himself elected to the Senate, a seat we badly need to pick up and then actually establishing a conservative record through votes and advocating for conservative principles.
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