Posted by
RightTeacher on Thursday, February 07, 2008 9:10:23 PM
No, I don't want to elect him. Be serious.
I want debates. I want Lincoln-Douglas debates, but I will take joint press conferences, if that is all we can get.
If Romney was still in it, I wouldn't think McCain would want more debates. He would look badly in comparison (and, yet, McCain is "my guy"--MMM (my man Mitt) now becomes MMM (my man McCain), or it will in time).
If Huckabee bows out, there will be no debates. No news of any kind until the convention. We would be surrendering all of these news cycle to the other guys.
If Huckabee stays in, we can have debates. They should contrast the positions of these people (that is what debates are supposed to do--though someone should tell the democrats), and that, of course, would be the war on violent Jihad. That is a message we need to keep in front of the public for as long as possible, as often as possible, and as in depth as possible. And, as long as Huckabee doesn't mind being McCain's straightman as he trumpets out debate after debate of his credentials on the issue and the strength of his position against terrrorists, then it would do McCain good.
It is the least that Huckabee can do. I can't imagine a less gracious speech than his speech Tuesday night. He said that people were saying it was a two-man race and he agreed, but he was one of the two men! On what could he possibly base that on? At this time, Romney still has over a hundred more delegates than Huckabee. Huckabee has not had any support at all outside his base. Romney, of course has support from the places where he has lived. But he also won caucus states and he won many "silver medals." Romney may not have done as well as we had hoped, but, as Romney tells us, he did get four million votes to McCain's 4.7 million.
A two-man race, indeed!
Well, as long as he is staying in, we may as well get some use out of him.