Posted by
Logical Party on Wednesday, February 06, 2008 7:58:06 PM
Conservative Delusion
By David DiBello
The Conservative party is done, for now, which is very difficult for them to accept. Rather we have candidate Mitt Romney, the chameleon conservative, and conservative talk show hosts like Hannity and Limbaugh, whining about the effects of a split vote caused by Mike Huckabee. This is nonsense.
I underscore Huckabee’s angst of such pompous pretention on behalf of Mr. Romney to suggest that supporters of Huckabee would immediately support Romney, or that the former Arkansas governor should withdraw from the race. After yesterday’s results, Mike won five states to Mitt’s seven; couldn’t it be said that Romney has maxed out, and Huckabee should be given a shot at his supporters?
First, I would also suggest to Mr. Romney that supporters that can be swayed to vote for another are not loyal or that committed. Why vote for someone if you really want to vote for someone else, especially if that someone else is ahead of you in the polls?
The real reason this is a ludicrous suggestion befitting of whining losers, like coach Belichick worried about an opposing player’s foot on or off the field rather than with beating that player while he was on the field, is that Huckabee’s views are in direction opposition to Romney’s and more in line with McCain. Huckabee aligns himself with the worker, as opposed to the man who will lay him off; Romney was a turnaround specialist that lays people off, and a believer in less taxes and less government, which will also lead to layoffs.
Huckabee, as McCain, wants tax cuts for forgotten middle class Americans, while Mitt wants another round of Bush tax cuts focused on the well off. Romney was pro choice, then pro life, supporter civil unions, now opposes, while Huckabee has been consistently pro life and against civil unions, like McCain. Romney hates illegal immigration, that is now, while Huckabee and McCain want corrective measures to secure borders and steps to citizenship for those here.
The suggestion is, in the absence of Huckabee his supporters would chose McCain, as witnessed by the southern state vote last night won by Mike, with the silver medal going to McCain. Half of Romney’s wins have been small uncontested caucus states like Wyoming and Maine that other candidates forgone due to lack of financial resources and the small delegate count.
The biggest litmus test as to where supporters would go is in the selection of a Vice Presidential candidate. If Romney where smart, he would make a deal with Huckabee to be his running mate, allowing Mike to drop out. However, Huckabee’s supporters will go to McCain based on symmetry of policy and beliefs. The worst case scenario is they will split Mike’s vote, leaving it a “push.”
Romney is too smart to play that hand for revealing the fraud of his conditional statement. It also shows that conservatives are history for this election cycle because if they were really close, Romney would be in the lead, McCain and Huckabee fighting for the other to pull out. It’s easier for Romney and conservatives to complain about a fictional possibility that does not exist to cover their deficiencies, and the fact that they are finished.