Wednesday, February 06, 2008

Mike Huckabee and a Brokered Convention

The Anchoress is predicting a brokered convention for the Republicans. Here's how that's going to play out. Mike Huckabee is going to support John McCain. Game over. It will take about two minutes to work that out.

Mike Huckabee is staying in the race because he hates Mitt Romney. Rudy endorsed McCain for the same reason. Small wonder after Mittens burned through tens of millions of dollars sliming everyone else. Mitt easily ran the most negative campaign of the bunch and his surrogates in talk radio and the blogosphere tripped all over themselves to see who could be the most vile and hate-filled. Dig this post from Hugh Hewitt spreading disinformation about Fred Thompson's cancer.

The moral of the story is that hate doesn't work. It didn't work for the Kos Kids against Joe Lieberman and it didn't work here.

Our good friends over at Stopthe ACLU are wondering if a white knight will come in to save the "true conservatives" during the convention. No way.

All the money in the world can't elect an empty suit that tries to slash and burn his way to the nomination.

2 comments:

John said...

Underestimating the opponent is a classic mistake.

This was a year to catch the people running away from the D ticket. If it goes into the convention for the republicans, whoever emerges will be too little too late.

There is always a cost when you break out the baseball bats. The healing and support wont be genuine and it will be transparent.

Like Romneys money in the campaign, betting on a gop victory in November isnt a good bet if a choice isnt made soon. IMHO

John
http://reformedville.reformedblogs.com

B-Daddy said...

KT,
I agree that it is game over and McCain will be the nominee. I predict he will tack right on illegal immigration and judges and that will be enough to pull in the rank and file conservatives. As for the talking heads, they've dug themselves a deep hole. I'm feeling bad about Dean's Caliente ticket though.

And I always tell my chillins, "It's never as good as you hope when your guy wins and never as bad as you fear when the other guy wins."