TheBluesMan
Moderator Emeritus
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Unfortunately, I can see McCain getting enough delegates for the nomination before the convention. I'm just hoping that Huckabee will have enough to steer the platform in the right direction a little bit.
Huckabee is the only true Republican running. McCain, Obama and Mrs. Bill Clinton are all Democrats.
Insurgent Republican giving up dream of winning in primaries
By Jim Forsyth
Friday, February 22, 2008
In an interview with 1200 WOAI news during his stop in San Antonio, 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 contract 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.”
Huckabee says with an upset win in Texas, and a win in the Ohio Republican primary the same day, Huckabee could deny front runner John McCain the nomination in the primaries.
“If we win Texas, I think it changes the dynamics of this race. It could well go all the way to the convention. If the convention delegates pick the president, chances are they would pick the most conservative. I would be the one they would end up picking, if that’s the criteria.”
Despite the endorsement of McCain of Governor Rick Perry and both of the state’s Republican senators, a victory by Huckabee in the Texas Republican primary is a longshot, but is not out of the question. Social conservatives of the type who have flocked to the Huckabee candidacy control the levers of the Texas GOP, and have the ability to turn out large numbers of evangelical voters in early voting, and on primary day.
“I’m like one of those tiny little basketball teams in the Final Four, and nobody thought they could get there,” Huckabee said. “I think its a credit to the commitment of those who have been supporting me.”
Unfortunately, I can see McCain getting enough delegates for the nomination before the convention. I'm just hoping that Huckabee will have enough to steer the platform in the right direction a little bit.
Huckabee is the only true Republican running. McCain, Obama and Mrs. Bill Clinton are all Democrats.