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DCortez, Houston, Texas — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:12:13 GMT

Too bad Romney didn't leave after NH. He stole so many Huckabee votes.

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Cory, Tampa, Florida — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:16:29 GMT

Huckabee's last stand was Iowa, if he cared about america and not his personal agenda to aid McCain and be VP, he would have dropped out after South Carolina and we would have a conservative and true republican as our nominee. Now we have to hope that as we rally around McCain that he doesn't forget what party he represents over the next four years. I will still vote republican, because a horrible republican is better than the best democrat for the country. In a way I want the democrats to win, so that as the country gets so thoroughly messed up over the next 4 years that they have to take the blame for it.

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Steve, Los Angeles, CA — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:16:52 GMT

Funny there's mention of the only Republican who not only never voted to raise taxes, never voted for an unbalanced budget. There's still a candidate, who raises the most money from the military, Republican voters can support. Ron Paul has lots of cash on hand and will be in it till the convention.

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Wendy PA — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:22:36 GMT

Nominating McCain is like giving George Bush a third term. Come on, America. It's time to unite behind Huckabee.

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tim, St. Paul MN — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:22:57 GMT

Woohoo!!!!! take that radio talk show hosts and liberal media that has TRIED to shut Governor Huckabee down- He took his case straight to the people and BEAT the Romney money machine...ina a state he wasn't even predicted to do well in...Maybe Romney should drop out of the race and stop taking votes from Huckabee!!!!!! 18 delegates for the real Governor...Congratualtions Governor Huckabee-YOU DESERVE IT!!!!

“I want to make real sure that he (Romney) understands something. This old Arkansas boy is not for sale. He doesn’t have enough money to buy me. I’m not some troubled company that he can buy, sell off the assets and send us home. There’s a whole lot of people like me in this country who are tired of people waving their checkbooks at us and making us think they own us and they can buy us. Well you can’t buy us. You can’t even rent us. We’re not for sale. We’re going to the polls Tuesday and we’re going to show America this country is about ordinary people who believe in the extraordinary power of the American dream and we’re going to prove it at the ballot box Tuesday.” - Governor Mike Huckabee on Monday Feb 4th

It's NOT THE PUNDITS, the pollsters, the Radio hosts, or establishment POLITICIANS, it's the PEOPLE WHO DECIDE! Way to shut their FAT mouths Governor Huckabee!!!!

I predict Huckabee will be in play in Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina, Mississipi, Texas, Louisiana, Kansas, Nebraska, & Ohio & even Wisconsin....but go ahead and continue to underestimate him and you will get shocked once again!“I want to make real sure that he (Romney) understands something. This old Arkansas boy is not for sale. He doesn’t have enough money to buy me. I’m not some troubled company that he can buy, sell off the assets and send us home. There’s a whole lot of people like me in this country who are tired of people waving their checkbooks at us and making us think they own us and they can buy us. Well you can’t buy us. You can’t even rent us. We’re not for sale. We’re going to the polls Tuesday and we’re going to show America this country is about ordinary people who believe in the extraordinary power of the American dream and we’re going to prove it at the ballot box Tuesday.” - Governor Mike Huckabee on Monday Feb 4th

It's NOT THE PUNDITS, the pollsters, the Radio hosts, or establishment POLITICIANS, it's the PEOPLE WHO DECIDE! Way to shut their FAT mouths Governor Huckabee!!!!

I predict Huckabee will be in play in Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina, Mississipi, Texas, Louisiana, Kansas, Nebraska, & Ohio & even Wisconsin....but go ahead and continue to underestimate him and you will get shocked once again!

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Philip — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:23:15 GMT

aren't those delgates of Romney's up for grabs now? Huck could get a fair number of those if he lasts till the convention. I hope he stays in keep things interesting with McCain so Newt will come in and save the GOP at the convention.

Gingrich '08

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PBrown — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:27:25 GMT

I am sick of Huckabee....Is he a paid staff memember of Morning Joe....I am so sick of seeing his FACE....You talk about someone who needs to go away....Huckabee is one of them....And I am not a Romney or McCain Supportter

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Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:28:39 GMT

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Dave, North Carolina — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:29:16 GMT

DCortez,

What do you think Huckleberry has been doing all along?

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Class Warrior, D.C. — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:30:28 GMT

The Huckster needn't worry---I'm sure God will reach down and personally endorse him. Or rig the votes. Or something.

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Steven Rinehart — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:36:38 GMT

Game over!!! Bob Dole won again, and Bob Dole will lose again in November. Only problem is by then half of Mexico will be voting in the U.S. Presidential election in 2012 and no real conservative will ever win or be nominated again. The conservative party as we know it just died with Romney.

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M. Boley — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:41:01 GMT

Huck will lose... simply because he won't take the northern third of the state - most densely populated and most liberal. McCain will do well there with the moderates. Huck will probably do all right in the backward part of the state - extreme SW VA - where dancing is still banned and snake handlers still preach... but that's all he'll get.

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tom veil, burbank ca — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:42:16 GMT

Why is Virginia the "first test"? What about Louisiana, Washington, and Kansas?

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Bob, AL — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:42:16 GMT

Huckabee was the best choice for the Republicans. Being from the Deep South, I have always had family ties to the Republican Party and I can say that I am an Eisenhower Republican. But the neo-con movement of the last 45 years has brought the party down and their use and control of the media by Clear Channel among others is actually hurting more than it's helping their cause these days. Just look at how people are inculcated with the feelings that they should bend over backwards to have the 'conservative' moniker, lest they be ostracized as a hated “liberal”, “socialist” or some other designation in a child-like and ridiculously extreme ‘all or nothing’ scale of acceptance and rejection of fellow human beings. The Republican Party of the people and its members, not its radio talking heads, should really define itself again in the 21st century and discover the kind of compassionate and pragmatic conservatism that needs to manifest itself in actual policy to keep it from collapsing. “Conservative” needs to start being literal for the Republican Party again in both foreign and domestic policy. Borrowing money from foreign enemies, not balancing the budget, going to war so a few in power can make profit, huge tax cuts and subsidies for the super-wealthy when the economy and the dollar are bleeding, these are policies of the neo-con "conservatives". But these policies are not conservative by any sense of the literal word, they are in fact RADICAL. The word “conservative” by Rush Limbaugh's standard is more like a cult member nickname than anything else these days. So to all who fall over themselves to have the conservative nickname yet do nothing to be truly conservative in their mindset or behavior, who are complicit in the Republican Party's downfall, I say count me out. Just listening to John McCain and the other Republican candidates tout their perspectives on the world I think one of two things are true, either they are really stupid or the bar is still very, very low in just how much sense you have to make to the typical Republican voter as a candidate to get their vote. Either way, the rest of the country, more and more people every day, are just not buying that Disney movie "We good guys, they bad guys" black and white viewpoint of our country and our world anymore. If John McCain or Mitt Romney are the best the Republican Party can do, then the party deserves to lose and lose big in the general election this year.

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justthinkinoutloud — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:44:01 GMT

Let me just say that NO ONE named Huckleberry will ever be POTUS, Not to mention that he wants to rewrite the bill of rights modeled after the bible. Give it a rest evangelicals, it is not going to happen. Your efforts would be put to better use by supporting anyone who has a broader appeal to voters from coast to coast.

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Roger, St. George, Utah — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:44:07 GMT

Too bad Huckabee didn't leave before Florida. He stole so many Romney votes.

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JJ in NJ — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:48:33 GMT

He has, however, already cemented serious consideration for the #2.

Huckabee is a very scary guy. On TV, he's personable, self-effacing, and funny. He can even take on Stephen Colbert. But when he's talking to evangelical groups, the affable face comes off and the theocratic gargoyle that lurks behind it is in full view.

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Kira, Utah — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:49:08 GMT

Right, "stole". Except that Romney won far more votes and delegates and states than Huckabee. Too bad Huckabee didn't drop out. Romney could have beat McCain if Huckabee wasn't in it solely for the purpose of thwarting Romney... We'll see how well your guy does now that McCain won't be helping him out (like in WV). We'll also see how many people flee the GOP in order to vote for someone with integrity (go Obama!!)

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dlott, SLC Utah — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:51:46 GMT

Mike Huckabee is a religious fanatic. How many delegates can a guy who said, "I believe it's a lot easier to change the constitution than it would be to change the word of the living God" get? His interpretation of the "word of the living God", leaves too many people out in the cold. The only reason he even stayed in the race was to ruin Romney's chances of a nomination. Now that Romney has left, and mark my words, Huckubee will leave in the next week, just long enough to make it not so obvious why he even stayed in. Mike Huckabee is a spoiler and a hater. Not exactly the virtues of the one he professes to follow.

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amadeus, Newport, RI — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:52:11 GMT

it will be a McCanin, Huckabee ticket. Get ready for the dems i the white house.

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David, Atlanta, Georgia — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:56:07 GMT

Too bad Huckabee didn't leave after NH. He stole so many Romney votes.

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MK,MO — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:58:33 GMT

clintons unsavory connections will come into play now, her and bill's experience in arm twisting and corrupt political shenanigans is unmatched, they will do what ever it takes regardless of legality or what's right to further their dynasty, their lust for wealth and power always trumps fair play, couple this with the fact that the republicans are salivating for a hillary nomination, because they know they can beat her in the general, and you have a situation that is sure to become very ugly and dishonest, with the american citizens wishes tossed to the curb

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pat huntington ny — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:59:09 GMT

Huckabee has ZERO, that's Z-E-R-O chance in getting the republican nomination....thank God because we dont' need a christian fundamentalist from the christian reconstructionist movement in the white house.

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Houston — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 19:00:58 GMT

Lee Holmes from yesterday [[Garbage. ''common dreams''is a leftwinged website which typically shills for George Soros. Expect no veritas from the likes of these. ]]

It is a fact that John McCain's life was saved by a Vietnamese civilian named Mai Van On. It is a fact that McCain broke under torture and made false "confessions" to his North Vietnamese interrogators. There is absolutely nothing dishonorable about any of that except the fact that McCain lets his campaign operatives and the news media avoid acknowledging these facts. That is a lie of omission, and it _is_ dishonorable.

Lee Holmes complains that these facts aren't facts because they were published by Common Dreams, a progressive web site that was run by "aging Marxists." Ignoring for the moment that it is a McCarthyite lie to call Common Dreams a Marxist web site, Common Dreams didn't even have anything to do with the article other than reprinting it. It was written by Ted Rall, a syndicated editorial cartoonist and author, who has absolutely nothing to do with Common Dreams.

Here's the link to Rall's original article:

http://www.uexpress.com/tedrall/

Here's a link to an article on Mr. Van On saving McCain from 1997 so this is clearly not some "swift boat" attack on McCain:
http://archive.southcoasttoday.com/daily/05-97/05-10-97/a12wn060.htm

Or maybe Holmes thinks the evil Hillary Clinton planted this story way back in 1997 to use it against him in 2008. Those Clintons, they'll do anything!

Only lying liars of the whacko rightwing believe that facts ought to be ignored just because they don't like them and they're printed on a "liberal" web site. As Steven Colbert has observed, facts have a liberal bias.

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JOSH, IDAHO — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 19:01:52 GMT

to all huckabee fans, don't think Romney stole my vote from you, he didn't! I won't vote for huckabee unless its him verses clinton and then it'd be a tough one to swallow. I'm now firmly nestled in the Obama camp. Romney inspired me and hucks selfish quest for attention is only going to hurt the election process. My best wishes to Mr. and Mrs. Romney, i'll gladly support you in any future bid!

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JW, Denver, CO — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 19:02:58 GMT

If Romney was ever serious about being a conservative candidate, he owes it to his constituents to cede his delegates to Huckabee.

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GsonJagnath — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 19:08:02 GMT

Now the Pundits can eat their shoes. All along they cried HUCK is spoiling Phoney Romney's chances. In the last debate they did not give Huck any respect.
Look now. IT IS A TWO MAN RACE. HUCK IS IN IT.

Money cannot buy the election. Phoneys are never elected. People are smarter than the Bought out experts.

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Jerry CHui, Oakland CA — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 19:10:36 GMT

Talk is cheap, We need substance. People who are greedy for money and power usually are good speakers, like Reagan, who managed to fool the entire nation into believing that he had done a lot, while he was the laziest president ever. Reagan and his wife had literately turned the WH into a circus Hollywood style, with them being the clown and actors for 8 years. Many woman, children, and minority people are still suffering financially today because of Reagan.

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Jerry CHui, Oakland CA — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 19:11:16 GMT

We just can't trust a rookie (If not worst) with the most important job in the free world just because he is a great SPEAKER.

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CoachNY — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 19:13:01 GMT

Too bad Huckabee didn't leave before Iowa. Then we'd have a conservative nominee: Romney

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Quark — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 19:17:27 GMT

If the Republicans want to be sure to take the Presidency this election, they should recruit Condoleezza Rice to run as VP. I think we'd find the U.S. has no problem with "a" black person or "a" woman running. Just give us a real choice. Something other than Billary or Obama.

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Vincent DiCarlo — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 19:24:20 GMT

Thanks to Domenico Montanaro for the most intelligent comment on this development that I've seen in the hour or so since it became known that Romney withdrew.

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Vincent DiCarlo, Davis, California — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 19:25:19 GMT

Thanks to Domenico Montanaro for the most intelligent comment on this development that I've seen in the hour or so since it became known that Romney withdrew.

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Caleb Jones, Seattle WA — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 19:44:04 GMT

If Huckabee gets VP nomination I'll vote for a democratic president for the first time in my life. Neo-conservatism scares me more than the things that scare me about the two democratic candidates.

Personally, I'd LOVE to see a McCain-Powell ticket. Colin Powell is one of the political victims of the Bush administration and he deserves an opportunity to serve his country with respect.

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Stine, Huntington, MA — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 19:44:43 GMT

I used to think I was a Democrat, I was wrong.

Ron Paul will make me a Republican. If the Republican party actually cared about being conservative (smaller government, lower taxes, less wasteful spending like Iraq for example - if we stay there it WILL destroy our military, our economy and our country!) they would throw their support behind Ron Paul. Ron Paul is a true conservative Republican. Ron Paul has taught me that I like Republican ideals (as they should be, not as they are now.)

If Ron Paul got the GOP nomination, he would MOP THE FLOOR with ANY Democrat, period. He believes in the constitution, and so do we!
RON PAUL Revolution! www.ronpaul2008.com

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Diderot, Boise, ID — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 19:44:58 GMT

Jerry CHui is right about Reagan and Obama, another beginner who speaks well (sometimes). The White House is too important for people who lack epxerience and savvy. Obama has neither. He has no substance and his campaign is mainly a personality cult.

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Mike in Illinois — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 19:45:04 GMT

What everybody is failing to see is that Romney all though he claims to be a conservative was champion of the liberal state health care plan in Massachusetts, which by the way this year alone is already 400 million dollars over budget and is expected to increase. So what Huckabee is a christain. So what he said he would try and change the constitution, do you really think he could? And if you have a problem with the values by which the constitution was found (read bible here) then you have a basic problem with this country, not with the man. Huckabee is the only one who wants to change Washington from the inside out with the Fair Tax. If you haven't heard of that maybe you should read the legislation that is in front of congress and find out for yourself.

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Petey — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 19:45:08 GMT

Condoleeza Rice would not be a good draw for Republicans as a VP. Not many blacks will vote for her. By the way, why is everyone blaming Huckabee for staying in the race. The guy won several states because the people wanted to vote for him. I find it amazing that people suggest he drop out so Romney would pick up votes. If the Huckabee people really wanted to vote for Romney then they wou;d vote for him. It amazes me that we don't feel it makes sense to allow voters in other states to have a say on the available candidates based upon who we feel should be a more representative of our individual values rather than who can better represent a conservative base.

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GsonJagnath — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 19:49:54 GMT

A MAN'S WORTH IS PROVED ONLY WHEN HE IS FACING THE CHALLENGES. HUCK PROVED HE IS A MAN OF CALIBER.

Entire Money Machine, Bought out Media, Pseudo-Conservatives have written him off even before the real battle began. In the last debate they were not even allowing him to talk. NOW THEY HAVE LEARNT, IT IS THE PEOPLE WHO DECIDE THE WINNER, NOT THE MONEY, NOT THE LOBBYISTS, NOT THE PUNDITS.

HUCK IS STILL STANDING ON HIS FEET. HE STOOD STRONG WHEN THE CHIPS ARE DOWN, HE FOUGHT AGAISNT ALL THE ODDS TO PROVE HIS WORTH.

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Rifle — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 20:05:56 GMT

JJ in NJ said....

"He has, however, already cemented serious consideration for the #2.

Huckabee is a very scary guy. On TV, he's personable, self-effacing, and funny. He can even take on Stephen Colbert. But when he's talking to evangelical groups, the affable face comes off and the theocratic gargoyle that lurks behind it is in full view."

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Please....many of New Jersey's politicians are as filthy and corrupt as the day is long, and its been that way for decades. New Jersey is a putrid, stench-ridden cesspool...an industrial vomitorium and a toilet that stinks to high heavens.

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Snycheck — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 20:08:41 GMT

Heh, Good Luck taking Virginia, Upchuckabee. John Warner has endorsed McCain, and we Northern Virginians find your brand of polisticking repugnant. Go back to the Ozarks and leave us alone!

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JB, Idaho — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 20:23:38 GMT

i as a romney backer will be outraged if any of his delegates go to the huckabee camp! Huckabee shares a spot with clinton at the bottom of my consideration list.

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Mark West, Marion, Indiana — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 20:27:31 GMT

Is Huckabee to get out of the race because he's an evangelical? Is that it? Can you name something he favors you can't live with? What would you do in his shoes? You'd scramble to get the attention of Romney's delegates and then try to win Kansas,Virginia, Ohio, Louisiana, and Texas- in short, you'd try to get the nomination, wouldn't you? How can you suggest McCain has to be the nominee now? If he wins, fine, I'll support him in November. I'll stop there before I get started on the Senators and former Senators at CPAC who don't want someone who's not one of there own to get the nomination. Let's not let CPAC alone decide who gets the nomination. Now McCain is trying to write Huckabee's obituary. Not so fast, my friend.

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KYJurisDoctor, BGKY — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 20:28:45 GMT

Bye-bye, Flip Flopper Mitt Romney. We hardly knew you -- or your sorry attempts to buy the Presidency!!

http://osi-speaks.blogspot.com/2008/02/breaking-news-mitt-romney-will-bow-out.html#links

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Dave, Tn — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 20:40:09 GMT

Quark I'd vote for that. She's never fallen back on the girl card or race card either. Something Bull Clinton and wife have tried and failed to make Obama do. I'd love to see Condi rip the head off any democrat in a debate.

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DA TX — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 20:42:56 GMT

SHAWN HANNITY, BILL OREILLY, AND FOX NEWS CAN STICK IT, THEY KILLED HIM RIGHT BEFORE S CAROLINA FOR GULLANI. HE WOULD BE WAY AHEAD OF HIM, THEY KNEW HE HAD NO MONEY, SO THEY INVITE HIM ON TO KILL HIM, IM THROUGH WITH FOX HANG IN THERE HUCK

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cons3rvative — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 20:54:48 GMT

Go Huckabee!!! He's a real conservative and yes he has a long way to go, but he's the underdog when the media hasn't given him much love!

Also, Chuck, what's up with your penmanship? lol, I watched you write the delegates on the screen and thought..man that guy has chicken-scratch!

Also, give my love to Joe and Mica!

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Jason, Boone, NC — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 20:56:26 GMT

Cory from Tampa, You listen to the media to much. Romney should have dropped out after NH. Thompson should never have been in the race, then we would be looking at a true conservative and someone that actually cares about the average American

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dlott — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 21:02:12 GMT

GsonJagnath wrote: NOW THEY HAVE LEARNT, IT IS THE PEOPLE WHO DECIDE THE WINNER.

Spoken by a true Huckabee supporter. (GsonJagnath probably won't even understand what I am talking about.)

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grassboots, newton, iowa — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 21:32:51 GMT

"Huck will probably do all right in the backward part of the state - extreme SW VA - where dancing is still banned and snake handlers still preach... but that's all he'll get."

The Romneyites and liberals can't make an argument without insulting the electorate and making excuses for Romney's losses:

They just hate Mormons
They just don't understand the issues
They are backwoods
They aren't really trying to win
They are moderates
They are independents
They are just from the south

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grassboots, newton, iowa — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 21:36:06 GMT

Kira wrote: "vote for someone with integrity (go Obama!!)"

Just like Limbaugh and Coulter, folks like you, Kira, show how little conservatism lies in your bosom.

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grassboots, newton, iowa — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 21:37:57 GMT

"Huckabee has ZERO, that's Z-E-R-O chance in getting the republican nomination"

And that means Mitt has less than zilch!

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grassboots, newton, iowa — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 21:42:50 GMT

More True-Conservative Romney supporters, who kept there masks on just long enough to show themselves like their fearless leader:

"I'm now firmly nestled in the Obama camp."

"If Huckabee gets VP nomination I'll vote for a democratic president for the first time in my life."

Like Ann coulter and Rush Limbaugh, they are CINOs.

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Kira, Utah — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 21:44:58 GMT

JW, Denver, CO- it doesn't work that way- he doesn't get to decide where his delegates go. Even if he did, it wouldn't give Huck enough to win. Romney dropped out to help the party unite behind the front runner (even though the party doesn't like him), not to divide it further. Besides, Huckabee isn't a fiscal conservative. He is only a conservative socially- and on those grounds he is WAY over the top.

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Jackie R. Kingman, Az. — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 22:31:16 GMT

Osama--Bilary---McLame--Huckabee--I just sent a small donation to Huckabee, wish I could afford more. It is my way of letting him know I support him for president. Win or lose, he is a good man for this country, he has brains, a good sense of humor, and goodness knows we all need some laughter sometimes to ease our hearts and he is smart to catch our attention in that way so we will listen to his ideas on how to straighten out this country. He has my vote.

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Bob Cory, Altricham, England — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 23:48:58 GMT

As an English person I am fascinated to see that God is a right wing conservative in the USA. In the UK (short for the United Kingdom of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland) God is a Marxist who favours gay priests and taxing the rich. Also turns out that God wants to introduce Sharia Law into the UK according to the Archbishop of Canterbury (the Anglican equivalent of the Pope)
Whereas in the USA God supports Huckabilly.

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FairTaxjeff, Macon, Ga. — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 23:59:48 GMT

am I missing something here? "Conservatives" are upset that Romney pulled out and many now vow to vote Democrat, yet Huckabee either wins or is close to winning in almost all the "conservative" States. Why aren't the "conservatives" backing Huckabee now? All the responses I've read here ignore the Fair Tax. ALL the candidates, Democrat and Republican say "this is what I will do..." (about any issue). None of them are ever asked "...ah, and just HOW is it you will do that ???". The Fair Tax isn't Huckabee's idea, it's been around a long time. The Fair Tax is the ONLY "idea" that answers "this is HOW we will do it". It's researched and a bill in Congress complete with "HOW" to do it instructions. The Fair Tax is SWEEPING economic reform on a huge scale - even this supporter thinks it's a little scary to make such a dramatic change. But the supporters of the income tax of 1913 were facing the same challenge - instituting a 1% tax on income, when income had not before been taxed.

FairTax-ers support Huckabee. I don't care if he says "Merry Christmas" or "God Bless" from the White House (as President or VP) as long as he pushes for the Fair Tax

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Andrew Jacobson, Vancouver, BC — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 00:25:10 GMT

How could any right-thinking Christian possibly think of voting for Huckabee?!

Supporters apparently have not seen his extremely offensive and blasphemous ridiculing of our Lord with his prank of feigning a very worldly phone call from G-d when he was called to give the invocation (an opening prayer) at a Republican convention. Check it out on YouTube.

Such vain usage of the Lord’s name is in direct violation of the commandments.

Anti-Mormon bigotry in some evangelical states overpowered what should have been their concern about voting for such a man who makes a mockery of the Lord in open public. I guess that’s typical of a people who believe that they are saved with a one-time expression of faith and are afterward free to blaspheme the Lord since they’re already supposedly irreversibly saved by grace without any need to exercise faith further or obedience or be repentant and seek the Holy Ghost afterward.

Huckabee should be denounced for what he is, but worldly-minded people don’t care about such things, and evangelicals usually don’t seem to care what happens after their one-time prayer of “accepting Jesus.”

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Alan Washington, DC — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 08:46:40 GMT

Haha you know you are dead when you turn on your own. Democrats will sweep in 08.

Virginia: Huckabee's post-Romney test

Allan Mahoney — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 11:49:27 GMT

Face it folks, what the right wing of the Republican Party really wants is another "chicken hawk" for President! You know who you are! You like the tough talk about fighting Islamic extremism as long as it's someone else doing the fighting!You love the flag waving and see yourselves as the true defenders of our freedoms. John McCain makes you feel inadequate, so you come up with all kinds of excuses for rejecting him.There hasn't been a draft in this country for 35 years, so there are a lot of you out there now. You are the " chicken hawks". You are "weasels"!

Virginia: Huckabee's post-Romney test

Butch Porter — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 17:33:38 GMT

Here's the deal...Huckabee is NOT going to exit the race whether or not he loses Virginia...He's going to stay in and gather up at least as many delegates as Romney has. Why in God's name wouldn't he do that?

He will DEFINITELY win more total delegates than Romney if he stays in...therefore he will DEFINITELY have significant clout at the convention.

McCain CANNOT win more than the needed 471 before March 4th...period. He will have to debate Huckabee (and Paul) later this month...period. There is good reason for this to happen because if Huckabee is GOING to concede, then the two can have a little GOP love-fest to unite the party around McCain's Iraq agenda (while pissing off Ron Paul). Everybody wins.

But if Huckabee makes (yet another) comeback...(and winning Virginia would probably be required) then who knows?

Virginia: Huckabee's post-Romney test

Sas Tarr, Boston MA — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 17:51:01 GMT

Too all TRUE CONSERVATIVES and ROMNEY supporters:

It was not our call to make Gov.Romney (whom we all dearly respect) quit the race, it was his well-formed decision. For many of us Mike was a number 1 choice but we would support Mitt if Mike would decide to quit the race. Now, there is still hope to stop McCain and win the general elections (which McCain has no chances to win). Stop listening to "polls" and "news", they are not getting any money from us and they ignore us. Prostitutes they are, most of them. They are saying it is impossible to gather more delegates than McCain, but fail to remember that there is a brokered convention if no single candidate gets 1191 delegates. Listen to your heart and principles, stand up if you think you would be the only one who would stand, just because STANDING FOR YOUR PRINCIPLES is ALWAYS RIGHT. Let McCain win if he can, but not by your vote. Join yourself, bring your family and friends. Vote many times :) (joke).

Virginia: Huckabee's post-Romney test

Karmen,Fayetteville, Ga. — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 18:19:17 GMT

Keep going Mike Huckabee, I'm with you 100%. You are in my prayers !!!!!!!