by Karen on February 10, 2008
While there’s some rumbling that the Democratic National Convention might involve tear gas this year it appears that the GOP higher-ups are getting a bit worried about Huckabee’s popularity. Huckabee took all the delegates for Kansas and won Louisiana by 1 percent just to have the GOP declare McCain the winner in Washington after counting only 87% of the returns.
It would be one thing if McCain was leading by a significant number of votes, but he wasn’t. Only 242 votes stood between him and Huckabee which is less than a two percent lead with about 1500 votes unaccounted for.
Amusingly, the party leader appears to be a bit surprised that anyone would consider a party disenfranchising it’s own members to be a bit on the bizarre side of things. Apparently no one told the Washington branch that you scrap the other party’s votes, not your own.
by Karen on February 5, 2008
Huckabee’s won all 18 delegates for West Virginia with 52% of the vote.
Huckabee won with the support of 52 percent of the state’s GOP convention delegates on the second round of balloting.
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney came in second with 47 percent of the vote, and Sen. John McCain of Arizona was backed by 1 percent of the delegates.
Romney was ahead in the first round of voting in Charleston but failed to get the majority needed to win.
It appeared supporters of McCain, who placed a distant third on the first ballot, moved over to Huckabee, helping him carry the day.
Mitt Romney, who only received 47 percent of the vote (the other 1 percent went to McCain) is furious over the loss. His campaign manager Beth Myers even released a statement accusing McCain of cutting a “deal” with Huckabee just to block Romney from winning:
“Unfortunately, this is what Senator McCain’s inside Washington ways look like: he cut a backroom deal with the tax-and-spend candidate he thought could best stop Governor Romney’s campaign of conservative change.
“Governor Romney had enough respect for the Republican voters of West Virginia to make an appeal to them about the future of the party based on issues. This is why he led on today’s first ballot. Sadly, Senator McCain cut a Washington backroom deal in a way that once again underscores his legacy of working against Republicans who are interested in championing conservative policies and rebuilding the party.”
Maybe it’s just me, but I think they’re a just a wee bit sore about losing, eh?
by Karen on February 1, 2008
Kenneth Copeland is claiming that Mike Huckabee supports him in his “holy war” against Senator Grassley and that that during a conversation with Huckabee about the investigation Huckabee literally screamed:
“Are you kidding me? Why should I stand with them and not stand with you? They’ve only got 11 percent approval rating.” And then he said, “Kenneth Copeland, I will stand with you.” He said, “You’re trying to get prosperity to the people and they’re trying to take it away from ‘em.” He said, “I will stand with you any time, anywhere, on any issue.” That settled that right there. I said, “Yeah, that’s my man! That’s my man, right there.”
I find it hard to believe that a Baptist, much less a Southern Baptist such as Huckabee, would support anyone preaching “prosperity” as it’s usually considered to be a corruption of “biblical” Christianity. So, either Copeland is lying (and I don’t think he is) or Huckabee is just another hypocrite who’ll say/do anything to get the support of the faith-heads.
Here’s the video of Copeland making the claim:
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