Fox, CNN, and MSNBC have reported that Mike Huckabee has won the Kansas Republican Caucuses. Apparently, the conservatives are still not willing to get behind McCain. He still seems to have a lot of conservative resistance to overcome.
As for McCain, a friend of mine was at the dinner that McCain attended near Baltimore on Thursday, after the CPAC speech. He asked him to explain his immigration policy. McCain looked at the floor when he mentioned immigration, then walked away. The gentleman never even had a chance to ask the entire question.
Huckabee may get a lot more traction if McCain can’t even answer the questions of the party faithful. I doubt that guy will work very hard to get McCain elected with that kind of treatment. JMHO.
With 100% of the precincts reporting, the final tally showed Mike Huckabee winning by 36 points with 60% of the votes, compared to John McCain’s 24% and Ron Paul’s 11%.
February 9th, 2008 at 2:47 pm
John McCain’s immigration policy is here:
http://www.johnmccain.com/Informing/Issues/68db8157-d301-4e22-baf7-a70dd8416efa.htm
He talks about it all the time including in the CPAC speech.
Your 3rd party account of a friend’s story requires quite a suspension of common sense to believe in the manner you have presented. Why would would anyone stare at the floor when asked a question he gets asked all the time? Did he drop a fork? Did he walk because maybe he didn’t hear your friend? Maybe he had to go potty? Maybe George Bush came by and your friend just isn’t as important as he thinks? Is your friend a McCain supporter or acidic prone to exaggeration?
February 9th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
But a good win for Huckabee here. Keeps things fun.
February 9th, 2008 at 3:22 pm
Not even worth worrying about. McCain will roll in any primary because primaries don’t measure a candidates enthusiasm. What caucuses measure is a candidate’s enthusiasm from his supporters. This is why, short of another terrorist attack, McCain has absolutely no shot in November. I’m getting ready to load up on the dumbocrat to win in November at any betting site I can find. Kind of ironic, thanks to Bush’s awesome job against terror, the dumbocrat will roll to victory.
February 9th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
McCain – my friend is one of the top state party activists and very sane, even-keeled and respectable. There were also other witnesses. He does feel strongly about immigration, but he wanted to speak to McCain – to speak to him directly about it – give him a chance. McCain did not have to pick up a fork, although he may have had to go to the bathroom to rid himself of some bulls**t.
February 9th, 2008 at 3:43 pm
MBT – McCain would have to sit on the john for quite a long time then. I’m still going to vote for Mitt in my state primary. Makes choking down my vote for McCain in November a little easier.
February 9th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
34 point loss? McCain had Dole’s endorsement. The beginning of the end for McCain? Without Romney endorsement and active campaigning McCain is finished.
February 9th, 2008 at 4:50 pm
Brian, I think you’ve moved from late night beer to afternoon pot.
MBT and Kungpow (kinda fun joining you two):
All of this infighting reminds me of George Washington’s farewell address:
“Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally. It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with illfounded jealousies and false alarms; kindles animosity of one part against another foments occasionally riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which find a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passion.”
–George Washington
That passage is ringing a familiar tone this year. The more I listen to all of the balloon screeching from a rabble minority faction in the Republican Party, the more I think McCain (and George Washington) had the campaign financing issue right.
February 9th, 2008 at 6:12 pm
Rabble minority? Hmmm…. no. Not a rabble minority. This has nothing to do with party in my case – McCain is rude, he is too eager to compromise with Kennedy, while he tells a Republican colleague to F*** off. I’m not a minority. And the minute that we’re not allowed to have different opinion, we become Democrats.
McCain walking away from a fmaily man, who asked him an honest question is rude. It also makes me question his judgment.
Note, however, I have always maintained that I will vote for him – that is party loyalty.
February 9th, 2008 at 6:13 pm
McCain, you and me and KungPow together? Is that legal in California?
February 9th, 2008 at 6:23 pm
Minority Rabble? 43% of the Republican Electorate support McCain. That would be a minority. In fact, which state has McCain garnered over 50% of the vote? ala Mike Huckabee in Kansas this morning? That is a serious question. Where has McCain garnered more than 50% of the vote? Romney did it numerous times, and now Huckabee is doing it, but McCain? Can’t get it done. He can’t get a majority of the Republican vote, let alone the 98% he’ll need in November.
February 9th, 2008 at 6:24 pm
McCain – My beef with McCain is with his most unpresidential behavior toward a member of the party base that he will need this November.
“Opening the door to foreign influence and corruption (Keating Five?)” cuts both ways in my book; his most uncivil behavior toward a friend of mine reminds me of another George, McGovern that is, who told a youth on the campaign trail to “Kiss my ass.”
February 9th, 2008 at 6:27 pm
MBT – Legal in California? I thought it was the law. Along with pot from vending machines and banning USMC recruiters.
February 9th, 2008 at 7:17 pm
MBT, any Republican patriot worth her feathers would be proud to be called rabble. Just ask Samuel Adams. As for you and KungPow together, Chinese dinner for 3 comes with Kung Pow Chicken so count me in. Anything is legal in California. Just ask Gavin Newsome.
Brian, 43% would be a plurality. How long do you really want to complain about the people’s will? And to what end? Regardless the other 57% aren’t acting like spoiled children. It’s a minority, my friend.
KungPow, that’s a good point about George McGovern. His party had such an acrimonious nomination process that Dems got clobbered in 1972.