McCain-Huckabee: The GOP immigration drag queen ticket
Huckabee for VP? That’s the buzz.
It’s the GOP immigration drag queen ticket!
La Raza/The Race gives it two thumbs up.
Read and weep:
Mike Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas and defeated contender for the GOP presidential nomination, is currently at the top of John McCain’s short list for a running mate. At least that’s the word from a top McCain fundraiser and longtime Republican moneyman who has spoken to McCain’s inner circle.
All they need is sanctuary-friendly Rudy Giuliani as DHS Secretary, and the open-borders dream nightmare team will be complete.
Can someone please fast-forward to 2012? Please.
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I’d be happy to fast-forward to November, get this fiasco over with.
Huckabee as Gomer Pyle. What a team.
Well not if Paul and his supporters can help it by crashing the convention.
/sar off
“appeal to working-class voters in the critical “Big 10″ states of Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Ohio”
except for the tiny little fact that schmuck got his ass kicked in every single one of those states!
Michelle, this is fairly irresponsible — Trumpeting annonymous gossip from some two-bit economic pundit from U.S. snooze frankly diminishes you.
Why is it that the Republican Party keeps pushing me away? Don’t they want my vote? Don’t they want to win?
Buckaroo wrote:
“Two-bit economic pundit?”
I’ve been familiar with James Pethokoukis’s fine work since his days at Investor’s Business Daily back when I worked in Los Angeles 15 years ago.
Your knee-jerk trashing of a fine journalist diminishes you, not me.
Wow, talk about a counter-balance to La Raza.
I won’t vote for McCain if he picks Huckabee. I can understand the need to secure our borders, but Huckabee wants to stick his paranoid, Protestant nose in Catholic Churches to find illegals.
Not going to happen.
whatevs.
/i might give a whit if he would, say, name a source instead of trying to act like page 6 …
I might maybe vote McCain if he choices Mitt Romney or a real conservative for a running mate. If he chooses Mike Huckabee, that will be McCain’s way of flipping off conservative voters and I’ll vote for Mitt or a real conservative independent, if one ever steps up.
Yes, but who is running from the Republican party!
# 9 mm3
JSM is not going to choose schmuck for his running mate …
no “conservative independent” is going to “step up” — not this cycle anyway. As I say ad infinitum, there is a stark choice this nov. — JSM or hillbama. choose at your own peril …
Some months from now, maybe we will all look back wondering why conservatives didn’t give more attention to candidates Duncan Hunter or Tancredo when we had the chance.
Now, we’re hoping that a Veep can save us.
Local, I think it’s time we face the fact that we are avoiding.
The Republican party is NOT CONSERVATIVE. We need to take back the Party, or we’re screwed.
NOOOoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo… This nightmare just keeps getting worse!
“conservatives didn’t give more attention to candidates Duncan Hunter or Tancredo when we had the chance.”
jmo, but had tom simply not run and lent his support to duncan, duncan may have gotten some traction in the early contests. as it is, both combined never broke double digits, so we can “woulda coudla shoulda” all we want but several million voters in the primaries made their choice, plain and simple …
i don’t look for a veep to “save” us, i simply look for a veep to be a plus to the ticket [sanford, coburn, etc.].
“Can someone please fast-forward to 2012? Please.”
I’m so damned gun-shy after this mess that I’m afraid 2012 is going to bring us Chelsea Clinton (D) v. Jeb Bush (R) as our next choices.
I’m just not very optimistic here.
There will come a point when this country is simply no longer the United States of America. For whatever reason, the left wing is in charge and driving the policy of this country. The three candidates for President confirm this fact. I think about the consequences of ANY of the three becoming President and it is frightening.
By the way, I am not a conservative. Think of me as a “Neal Boortz” voter.
I will never leave this country, even if it leaves me. It is worth fighting for. But, please, does anyone have any ideas on how to get our country back? REAL ideas, not pie-in-the-sky stuff.
# 16 W9
fwiw, chelsea does not meet the age req. until 2016 …
# 17 R
removing the donk majorities in both congressional houses would be a start …
Or maybe:
Michelle Obama (D) v. Juan Hernandez (R)
The problem is in the Primary Process. Too many differing rules from State to State. Some are winner take all, some are split and some are open to Independents, etc. The conservatives were split in too many directions.
I’m not sure how to fix it though. It seems there should be a one day Primary, with the top three then in another run-off and then the top two. But that would be cost big dollars.
The idea being that once a person’s pick is filtered out, they should then be able to send their vote to someone else. Maybe the voting could be pick the top three choices in order of preference and if your top choice doesn’t cut it, they throw your vote to your next choice, and your next. Typing as I’m trying to think this out.
Well then, libocrat, one method of taking back or reshaping the conservative model is to withhold donations, or give only to Senate and House Repub. candidates, this cycle.
By merely going along with Juan Pablo in his quest to appeal to the middle, the Independents, and Hispanic votes, we are not discouraging McCain’s and Hernandez’ actions.
As Michelle said above, “can someone fast forward to 2012, please?”, when some resurrection of a conservative party can be had– hopefully, there will still be a recognizable US of A that year.
Anybody thinking about voting for Bob Barr on the Libertarian ticket? I disagree with a lot of things the Libertarians want to do….but I’m giving them serious consideration cause I think they are better than the other three possibilities.
Joy,
With all due respect, the PROBLEM is the MSM, which spoon fed us the one we got.
Local, you may well be right/Right. I am not one to cut off my nose to spite my face, but this possibility is sickening to me. Huckabee would be one heart attack away from being McCain Lite. My personal theory is that McCain feels good about himself when he meets someone in the middle. He gets used and abused by more savvy and evil libs.
I will vote for him, because the thought of a couple more Ginsburgs and a weaker military is not an option. I have a young son.
In the meantime, conservatives need to choose ONE guy and make all the noise possible at the convention and before! To do this we’d need to organize and I’m not sure just how to go about that. Maybe take a page from the Paulites. Someone like Michelle Malkin could perhaps lead the way. Hint to Michelle…
D
And again, the only other option I can see is Mitt because he would have been the winner had the cross-over/Independents, etc. not been involved.
Work – then all is indeed lost, because we’re not going to change the MSM anytime soon.
# 23 B
jmo, but please do not join up with the potheads and flush away your vote on the L’s …
Because this story is so horrifying, so crushing in every way, I am inclined to give it full credence. I have felt for some time that there was no way McCain was going to pick a conservative, such is his contempt for the base, and Huckabee was always a particularly horrid possibility.
In fact, given the intelligence and wisdom on the voter, (either party), who think the democrats are doing just fine thank you, this may work out well for McCain.
Either way, as far as the election this year, it’s essentially over. Something ghastly, either Obama-? or McCain-?, is slouching towards the Capitol and all we can do now is seek shelter and await its birth.
Joy,
That’s why I’m not very optimistic. The MSM controls the info most people get.
Something catastrophic is going to have to happen, I’m afraid, before we start getting any kind of straight info from the MSM.
In the meantime we have MM and others like her to keep us going, one foot in front of the other.
Joy, may I suggest J.C. Watts, in addition to Mitt, as VP?
Consider the advantages- successful executive in his own right; powerful and well respected leader in Washington; staunch conservative, from a state with a solid anti-immigration law, HB 1804?
# 27 J
au contraire, the lll networks [they are NOT mainstream] are diminishing in influence every day; not as quickly as the print media but is is happening …
# 20 W9
m.o. would certainly make for a an entertaining ride, tho not entertaining enough that i would foist it upon this country …
i don’t think juan’s a citizen – seriously — but that would be the least of his problems trying to get any sort of traction with the gop …
Show me Stars, show me Bars… I can guess the rest. This as it is can not stand.
Seriously, I’d rather have Joe Lieberman than Huckabuck. At least I know Lieberman is an honest man.
# 31 lmc
while JC would be a GREAT candidate, i’m pretty sure he’s done with elected office for now, and [sadly] maybe ever …
# 35 l
Lieberman is not going to get the veep slot either …
Local, J.C.Watts would be awesome.
Unfortunately, I don’t think J.C. could hang with McCain in good conscience.
Maybe?
Weird. I thought he stood a good chance of picking up some angry Hillary voters, but I can’t see any of them voting for Huckabee.
The Republican Party of Ronald Reagan is deader than a door nail. May God help us.
Local – I like JC Watts. He would be a good choice for VP!
If this happens, I may have to vote Libertarian. McCain
is hard enough to accept, but McCain and Huckster?
No way!
Could John McCain make a choice of alliances that are any worse?
Someone needs to tell him that Illegal Immigrants don’t have the right to vote.
“All they need is sanctuary-friendly Rudy Giuliani as DHS Secretary, and the open-borders dream nightmare team will be complete.”
I dunno. I think Chertoff is about as open-borders as they come. Not at all sure that Giuliani could out-open-border the Chertster-man.
Buckaroo, libocrat, methinks the question is, would McCain ask Watts in the first place?
In the circles I run around in, I hear J.C. has his ears open. As a Oklahoma st. employee, that’s all Im sayin…
Since we’re talking about change. I think the best way to avoid this again, is to change the selection process. The GOP needs to get together, and craft a new primary process. Since it is the GOP nomination, I think the GOP members should select the nominee. Kind of like the Dem’s Superdelegates. Let all elected members(Gov.s, Senators, Rep.’s, mayors, etc.) get together, and pick a nominee. Maybe even make it so each one gets so many votes they can give out to their selected, loyal constituents. This would also save millions for the General. Since “change” is the hot word right now, the GOP can take the lead on this one. They are going to have to do something, because after Rush’s Operation Chaos(which was a great idea) the Dem’s are definately going to get revenge next time around. Not that they didn’t screw us this year!
The local Minneapolis rag (the star tribune) says Pawlenty is at the top of the list for VP.
Maybe the McCain Team wanted to get some ink and pro-global warming wasn’t doin’ it for them. So they sent people out to fill the VP rumour mill.
Huckabee is a fruitcake. He and McCain would be renting out the Smithsonian to be a Mexican Consulate…..for a dollar a year.
They will by when/if Juan McCain gets to be POTUS.
Salukidog,
Rush instigated OP CHAOS because the Dems did meddle in our primaries and they voted for Mr. McCain.
“We are so screwed.” (Rush)
Maybe it’s ’shock and awe, bait and switch’
As in he’s trying to shock the bajeebers out of us and then anyone he picks will look better!
Not with MY vote!
Zorro, I was a young man and a Democrat when Reagan came to power. In fact, I voted for Carter on campus when I was 19, and Reagan won. Until Mr.Reagan came on the national scene in force in ‘79 the GOP had not had anyone even close to Conservative since ‘64 with Goldwater. The GOP will survive, it’s just bleak right now. As for the Demolib party, it’s slid left, lefter and leftist, since LBJ. The Democrat Party and it’s slide to socialism is very easy to explain. Very easy. Democrats have created a constituency of various groups that are COMPLETELY dependent on MOMMY GOVERNMENT and tax money for their very existance. The tipping point is getting very very close, where those on some sort of Gubmint DOLE, or those who rely on tax money for their very existance equals or surpasses the normal citizen who carries his or her own weight. There-in lies much of the Democrats power.
Saluki!! I think you miss the point. The GOP isn’t what you and I think/thought, it was.
Even Gingrich has sold out to Gore et al.
I remember NOT TOO LONG AGO, when Bob Barr and Lindsey Graham portended/pretended to be Conservative.
The LEFT sees ALL REPUBLICANS as HARD CORE RIGHT WINGERS. They are beyond goofy. G.W.BUSH, God bless him, isn’t really Conservative.
Someone please tell me the name of a GOP CONSERVATIVE with any leadership position/power or influence.
We need several dozen PAUL RYANS.
I can always hope.
I keep hoping to wake up from this nightmare soon.
Thats because the DEMS and the MSM picked this dud.
Joy/Local Yes, why can’t we get a JC Watts or a Michael Steele?
# 53 mm3
the nightmare ends, one way or another, on 11/4 …
the third largest party is the Contitutional Party. They are extremly conservative and they are much better than the Liberterian party. That is where I have moved my vote. As the Republican Party has definitely moved too far left for me. I suggest you all look up the Constituion Party website. Especially, if you call yourself a conservative.
# 54 Az
Steele has a buncha positives, but losing that statewide race in MD is somewhat a negative …
Constitution* oops
# 56 u
a wasted vote is a wasted vote, i don’t particularly care how many tenths of a percent it wastes …
A lot of rumor and speculation as to who the VP nominee will be. Anyone’s guess is as good as mine.
Buckaroo you make yourself out to be a fool when you demean the messenger of bad news without presenting verifiable countervailing facts yourself (RE: post #8). This is why in my opinion you have not yet presented a good reason to vote for McCain.
I’m afraid the real nightmare begins Jan 09.
# 60 l2r
your willful blindness to the oft-posted list of reasons to vote for JSM is not my problem …
Bingo that. I once had respect for Sean Hannity, his radio and FOXNEWS shows- until he kept inviting Giuliani every other day for an interview.
Duncan Hunter was excluded from a New Hampahire R. debate on FOX, because he only pulled 5% in Iowa.
As for a Watts or Steele VP selection? Even I think it’s unlikely, but only because McCain has bought into the ‘Maverick’ tag, again given by the MSM!
Buckaroo
There you go again!
You just won’t deal with what has been put forth, will you?
Choose Alan Keyes!!! Choose Alan Keyes!!!
Seriously, Huckabee has a great personality, and seems like an all around good guy…not that I agree with his religion or his politics.
However, I don’t think Huckabee will help McCain get any votes that he wouldn’t already be getting anyway. A guy like Rudy will pull in Independents and Reagan Democrats.
As an Obama supporter, all I can say is I want McCain to pick somebody who will embarrass him and bring down the ticket.
Choose Alan Keyes!!! Choose Alan Keyes!!!
You make me laugh Buckaroo…
It appears that for the most part, all HERE are in agreement that the GOP has left (pun intended) us. Whether we leave the GOP or take it back is the question.
I intend to do my utmost to take back the only viable option that I see.
I hope y’all help me.
mistress, you support Obama because………….
You don’t have a clue. Do you?
You support someone you don’t know.
# 65 mj
i don’t see JSM picking the only dude who has ever lost to b.o. in a statewide race …
# 64 l2r
“put forth”
wtf r u talking about? i’ve rattled off the reasons to vote for JSM numerous times, you ignore them due to your blind hatred — again, your problem not mine …
May I suggest borrowing a SluShop?
If John McCain picks anyone but a strong conservative for his V.P., I know that I can kick back and relax on election day, because I WILL NOT BE VOTING. After the whole mess is over, I would strongly suggest that conservatives unite and leave the republican party en mass. We cannot continue to share a party with people who share views that are polar opposites of our own. If you are just an “economic conservative” you are not a true conservative.
It’s a little too late in the night for me to start reciting the policy points from his websight Libocrat.
In post #67 you inferred that you were a Republican, and you are supporting YOUR nominee. Well I’m a democrat, and I’m supporting MY nominee. I would prefer John Edwards. However, if Hillary steals this thing with some Superdelegate crap(not likely), I’m voting 3rd party. That’s all.
“If you are just an “economic conservative” you are not a true conservative.”
wow, i guess the fact you post it renders it as holy writ …
/psst — JSM is a social conservative
website
LOL! Me, too. Except that, I will be quickly moving my savings completely offshore, outta the Pelosi’s and Reid’s hands.
It just keeps getting worse and worse. A baptist minister..Just what McCain needs to win over moderates and independents….What as freakin nightmare. Is he purposely trying to lose? Who is advising this moron? Really I am ready to say to hell with it and vote for the Messiah today.
RE: #70 “blind hatred”
Buckaroo that is calling the kettle black isn’t it?
Compared to McAmnesty, Huckabee is almost Tom Tancredo.
If McCain isn’t “moderate” enough on his own to win every moderate in America, then nobody can help him with them.
Sure, and I’m a Muslim communist.
I am willing to hold my nose for McCain, but if Huckabee is the VP nominee then forget it. My only consolation is that I live in NY which will vote Democrat anyway so that even if I did vote McCain it wouldn’t have mattered.
I’d still vote in the off-chance Republicans take back Congress as well as for sappiness in being fortunate to be able to vote. However, I do not know what I’d do for President.
Liberal, Conservative….Anyone who ties themselves to these two political monikers in this day and age is an idiot…I’m actually ….well…
McCain will lose moderates in droves with the clown that is Mike Huckabee
Romney gets my vote as well……
I heard JC Watts on Hannity’s radio show last week. He was defending Obama and his relationship with the Rev. Wright. I got the feeling that JC was going to vote for Obama.
Huckleberry = big, dumb goober.
I will be voting conservative for the local, state and federal representatives. I will not vote for McCain, I vowed in the 90’s that if this guy ever ran for POTUS I would not vote for him. He is far more liberal than I can stomach. I may as well as vote for Hill or Obama. I recall his push of McCain/Feingold and decided back then he was a Democrat with an R behind his name. No, my decision on McCain has been through careful observance of his character for almost 20 years. I don’t trust him, period. Besides if a Dem gets in we can be sure that the Repbulicans in office will stand up and resist anything coming down the pike. Not so if a POTUS has an R behind his name.
I will vote for Constitutional Party in the POTUS.
I’m with you. What are we going to do?
If obummer’s going into the white house, just hurt the democrats, I’d vote for him in a New York Minute, but they won’t be the only ones that will be hurt by that move. The whole country, every man, woman and child will suffer, as will the rest of the free world who are standing by us, as they see our armies deserting them, allowing Iran, the taliban, and Al Qadea to swarm all over Iraq and the middle east and hold the free world hostage, and Jimmy Carter will be right there patting them on the back.
I’ve only got one horse in this race—National Defense. Without it, you ain’t got doodly- squat. That’s my biggest worry about what’s her name and obummer getting elected. We won’t have a National Defense. That’s just my opinion, and I’m sticking to it, and voting for McCain.
Well, the office of the Presidency seems to be well and truly screwed at the moment, so my solution is to focus on Congress. Regardless of a President’s positions, it’s hard for him (or, perish the thought, her) to do anything without Congress’s support. I’m currently doing loads of research on my elections so that I can try to get involved in the campaigns later on, and I’d recommend that everyone else do the same.
I love this country too much to see it torn apart by a few blundering assholes who are convinced that they’re on a mission sent from God, and that they have to accomplish their own petty goals regardless of whether or not it’s right. Not one of the politicians running for the Presidency deserves it, and not one of them is competent enough for it. With the Congress in the hands of sane people, we at least have a chance to stave off disaster long enough to find a better President.
I did not read all of the comments, so I do not know if this has come up: We need to forget about the Republican party and vote for Bob Barr. It will probably be a write in for most states and in case you’re not aware, Bob Barr was a Republican representative from Georgia who is now running as a Libertarian for POTUS. Gees, I hope I have all of my CAPS in the right order.
Holy Moly… I just clicked over to HotAir to read what they were saying in regards to this same subject. Click “buzz” in MM’s article above.
There are two complete freaks posting like crazy (apacalyps & StOlaf). They make our trolls look like cute widdle puppies who are simply not potty-trained…
If McCain chooses Huckabee he’s an idiot. There are more people that he would lose in the middle to just gain a few mod-conservative Christians. Maybe McCain doesn’t really want it, or maybe the TriLat Comm. or others in charge, tell him that Obama must be POSTUS. He would win if he chose a young, conservative minority like Michael Steele or Bobby Jindal.
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absurd thought -
God of the Universe says
throw the election
you don’t really want the job
it is the socialists’ turn
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absurd thought –
God of the Universe says
be a conservative
in name only that is
vote Left on most BIG issues
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USpace
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I’m sorry, but Bob Barr is a clown.
Please sweet Jesus, let McCain pick someone like Paul Ryan. Please?? I promise I’ll never pray for the DEATH OF MOTHER NATURE again!!! Please!
# 91 s7
you wanna waste yer vote on barr, that would be your choice i suppose; pls. see the hostess’ post from earlier today, even she, amidst her JSM-hatred, doesn’t counsel that …
LESSER OF THREE GOP EVILS ….anyone!
USpace…
Good evening.
Froggy
# 94 l
paul ryan seems fine, tho do we really want another legislator and not an executive?
/jus’ sayin’ …
Buckaroo. Suggest a Conservative executive, and I’m on board.
Mitt Romney is one. Then……..
Too many bad choices here.
Buy food, guns, ammunition and expect tough years ahead.