Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Mike Huckabee

It is mathematically proven that Mike Huckabee needs 123 percent of the remaining Republican delegates in order to secure the Republican nomination. But Mike Huckabee is still in this race. I don't think Mike Huckabee is selfish or stupid for sticking in the race, nor do I think that of Ron Paul or Mike Gravel. Huckabee is the only candidate left who believes in his beliefs. The fact is that there are still alot of Americans who believe that too. Mike Huckabee knows he will not be the next President, but he is just trying to show the Republican party and John McCain that those people are out there, and they want someone to represent them. I am not saying that Mike Huckabee wants to be Vice President, but I can see that happening. Either way, I think Huckabee is showing the party that they need an equal representation. Paul and Gravel are doing the same, but not as well. McCain knows now that he needs someone as his running mate who will cater to the extreme right wing, whether it be Huckabee or someone else.

Now Hillary Clinton on the other hand, I feel is hurting the party not helping. Huckabee knows he will not be President and his beliefs differ from John McCain's. Hillary and Obama's beliefs are fairly similar, they just have differnt ways of going about it. Huckabee does not attack McCain and pull up bad information about his past. Hillary wants to win so bad, she is doing anything and everything she can. This is hurting the party because it gives McCain more time to plot, and she is giving him material. This also shows me that all Hillary wants is to win, and doesn't really care about the people as much as she says she does. The way I see things, all Barack is able to do now is defend himself. He is constantly being attacked. Then she gives him crap for not saying his ideas and just being motivating. First of all, different sources have studied both Obama's stump speech and Hillary's and discovered that they both share the same amount of info about their policys. Second, it is his motivating and moving speeches that are getting record amounts of people and youth to the caucuses. He is making people want to be active in their government like they should be. If she would stop digging up information and stop giving John McCain material, he would be able to do more with speeches and start to unite the Democrats.

This stuff that Hillary Clinton is doing is very unappealing to me. I don't see how it is appealing to anyone. If it wasn't for the fact I don't trust Hillary Clinton anyway, a situation like this is what would send me over to McCain if Obama is not able to get the nomination.

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