Hazelbaker Alert!!!: Jill Is Speaking the "Truth" Again... :Hazelbaker Alert!!!

by: Nick Lento

Sat Feb 09, 2008 at 06:35:41 PM EST

From todays NYT......
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02...

Asked if he saw any cost to staying in the race, Mr. Huckabee thought for a moment before answering: no.

?I have nothing else to do,? he said with a smile.

A likely story....the Huckster can't lose at this point; he's primed to be the VP or maybe even pull off some kind of "miracle".  Worst case scenario (for him) he emerges as the "go to guy" for the right wing fundamentalist evangelicals....who are the grass roots core of the Republican party.   He sure couldn't do much worse than Pat Robertson.

So, what does our old pal Hazelbaker have to say...

Mr. McCain?s campaign said the results on Saturday made little difference. ?Our campaign fully expected to fall short in the Kansas caucus,? said a spokeswoman, Jill Hazelbaker. ?John McCain is the presumptive nominee in this race and our path forward is unchanged by today?s results. Our focus remains the same: uniting the Republican Party to defeat Democrats in 2008.?

Not wanting to take the race for granted, Mr. McCain had given up plans to travel to a security conference in Germany over the weekend. Instead, he spent Friday campaigning in Kansas as well as Washington, which was also holding caucuses Saturday, and Virginia, where the primary is Tuesday.

Still facing fierce resistance from prominent conservatives, Mr. McCain was spending Saturday making phone calls in an effort to line up more endorsements and unite the party behind him.

Mr. McCain has 703 delegates so far, Mr. Huckabee, 190, and Ron Paul, a former congressman from Texas, 42.

Of course, McCain has to be considered "the odds on favorite" to win the Republican nomination......and if the Republicans believed in representative democracy (even to the flawed extent that we Democrats do) Huckabee wouldn't have a chance in hades of winning; but the resentment of him from the doctrinaire Limbaugh/Romney wing of the party (who see McCain as some kind of lefty liberal because he's against torture and for modest campaign finance reforms etc) is such that, when you add the anti war Ron Paul faction voters who might split off....you just might see Huckabee eking out some more majorities in "winner take all" Republican primaries!

Yes, it would be a long shot; but this seems to a year in which anything's possible!  

It'll be interesting to see if McCain has the chops to debate Huckabee one on one!  Let's see if he dares to bring up the question of evolution and Huckabee's stated belief that every word of "the" (as if there was only one version! ;-)  Bible is literally true.  That discussion would be fun to watch.

Go Mike Go!!!