Game On!
Nathan Greene
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Ok, lets just get this out of the way; I jumped the gun last week when I said that the Republican nomination was over. I was wrong, and while I have egg on my face, it pails in comparison to the amount of egg on the face of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham and the Romney campaign.
All last week we were lead to believe by the above mentioned, that it was a two man race for the Republican nomination between the Moderate John McCain, and the Conservative Mitt Romney. The only time they mentioned Huckabee’s name was when they were claiming that he was playing the role of spoiler.
Well they got one thing right; it is a two man race between a moderate and a conservative. They just got the candidates wrong, its McCain vs. Huckabee and the role of spoiler was played by Romney.
Now I’m sure some Romney supporter is going to rush to his defense and tell me how many states he has won. The problem for Romney is he isn’t winning the states he needs to if he wants to paint himself as a successful general election candidate.
Romney has won 10 states thus far, six “red” states and four “blue” states. However the six “red” states that he has won only give him 28 electoral votes in the general election if he wins those states. On the other hand, Mike Huckabee has won a total of 6 states, all of them red. Those six states make up 53 electoral votes, with most of them located in the south where Republican’s have to win in November. It’s also worth noting that the Rush, Hannity Ingraham supported candidate wasn’t even competitive, he finished 3rd in all of the southern states.
Last night McCain met expectations, Mike Huckabee exceeded expectations, and Mitt Romney bombed. The southern conservatives sent a loud message to Mitt Romney; you’re not the conservative standard bearer. I have to wonder what would have happened to Romney if Rush and Hannity didn’t coo all over this guy for the past few weeks? He received a ton of free media, he pumped in millions of his own money into his campaign, and yet he has a handful of mountain states to show for it.
Huckabee once again finds a way to steal the headlines. Before any votes were cast today nobody would have been surprised if Huckabee would have only won his home state of Arkansas. By the end of the night he won 5 major states, and has established himself as the southern conservatives many of us have said he was for a long time now.
As the race to the nomination heads to Kansas and Louisiana on the 9th the race is now between John McCain and Mike Huckabee.
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