Huckabee aids McCain
Skeptics have long accused Mike Huckabee’s “http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3021 that many Christian conservatives have said they will spoil their ballots come the November elections to avoid voting for him.
The Huckabee campaign cut a deal in West Virginia with McCain supporters to give Huckabee McCain’s votes, denying Mitt Romney, McCain’s main rival, a win. The result: while Huckabee officially won the state, McCain is likely to seize the nomination by denying West Virginia’s delegate pool to Romney. Huckabee accepted a role as spoiler, probably in exchange for a promise of a position with the McCain administration if, by some miracle, McCain takes the White House.Romney partisans were livid about the “backroom deal” between the Huckabee and McCain camps, which were supposed to be ideologically opposed. Beth Myers, Romney’s campaign manager, said, “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.” Huckabee also reaped the harvest of religious hatred he has sown, with religious right voters wary of Romney’s Mormonism.
An astounding number of Republicans are opposed to McCain, from talk jock Rush Limbaugh to James http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=547, who, since the death of Jerry Falwell has become the Grand Old Man of the Christian Right. Dobson said he despises the fact that the Republicans “seem poised to select a nominee who did not support a constitutional amendment to protect the institution of marriage, who voted for embryonic stem cell research to kill nascent human beings, who opposed tax cuts that ended the marriage penalty, who has little regard for freedom of speech, who organized the gang of 14 to preserve filibusters and who has a legendary temper and who often uses foul and obscene language. I cannot and I will not vote for Sen. John McCain as a matter of conscience. But what a sad and melancholy decision this is for me and many other conservatives.”
Christian conservatives have long been abused by politicians. Many observers pointed to Huckabee’s cynicism. While banging the bible he accepted donations from a http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=2817 dedicated to promoting research on human life through destructive embryonic stem cell research.”