Gallup: Huckabee Favorite For McCain V.P.
The Swamp:
by Mark Silva
It’s probably a sign of a GOP campaign not long finished that the first names which come to mind among Republicans thinking of a running mate for Sen. John McCain are Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney.
Yet, with word this past week that McCain, the senator from Arizona and presumptive Republican nominee for president, had started compiling a long list of running mates, it also seemed a question worth asking. The Gallup Poll did just that, asking Republicans to volunteer some names. Gallup found no groundswell for anyone.
In fact, Democrats John Edwards and Bill Richardson slipped into the list, with about as much apparent support among those surveyed as retired Gen. Colin Powell, the former secretary of state in the Bush adminstration and chairman of the joint chiefs of staff who has hinted that he might like Barack Obama.
Here’s the Republican public’s list for McCain’s consideration:
Huckabee, of Arkansas: 18 percent.
Romney, of Massachusetts: 15 percent.
Condoleezza Rice: 8 percent.
Fred Thompson; 4 percent.
Ron Paul (remember him?): 2 percent.
Rudy Giuliani (remember him?): 2 percent
Charlie Crist (Florida governor): 2 percent
Joe Lieberman., of Connecticut: 2 percent
One percenters: Colin Powell, John Edwards, of North Carolina, Tim Pawlenty (governor of Minnesota), Newt Gingrich, of Georgia, and Bill Richardson, of New Mexico.
The findings are based on a survey of 453 Republicans conducted March 24-27, with a possible margin of error of plus or minus six percentage points,. Which means, statistically, that Powell Edwards, Gingrich and Richardson have about as much apparent public support as Rice.
For more, see the poll.
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Sounds like a lose,lose ticket to me.
Good thing for McCain the dems are putting up two of the worst candidates in recent history.
G-d help our country if this is all we’ve got for leadership!
April 6th, 2008 at 8:27 amI would hope that John McCain is not that stupid. There is nothing to gain from Huckleberry and everything to lose.
April 6th, 2008 at 8:40 amIt’s not all we’ve got, it’s all the power brokers have offered, well strung puppets.
April 6th, 2008 at 8:41 amHuck or Newt works for me …
April 6th, 2008 at 8:55 amExactly WHO did they “poll”? I wonder if it was the “Evangelical” community.
I’m all out of ideas …
Wake me when it’s time to vote.
April 6th, 2008 at 9:00 amNo Huck and no Romney. After they’re off the list, we can start negotiating in earnest
April 6th, 2008 at 9:13 amThis VP slot needs to go to the person that is going to be the defacto GOP Presidential nominee in 2012 or 2016. Thats the most important reason to have one. I think the best person may be someone who didn’t run for president in this election cycle.
April 6th, 2008 at 9:17 amBring on Bobby Jindal
April 6th, 2008 at 9:18 amJohn A. Boehner (R - OH) or Governor Haley Barbour (R - Miss.) anyone?
I absolutely LOVE Boehner’s backbone and balls. And he’d fit right into the future GOP slot
KBoomr113
mentions. (IT IS about the future of the White House and the Presidency at this point … McCain, I think, would be ‘pushing it’ for a second term … his Veep is highly important).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nr83lpjB_s
http://johnboehner.house.gov/
Barbour is a [sinfully] unsung hero, in MY opinion, of Hurricane Katrina. What he and the folks in his state did after Katrina went pretty much totally ignored by the fucking MSM. They grabbed their balls, bent their backs, and beat their hands and feet to the bones to clean up and rebuild … amid the damn pouting, bitching, begging, and moaning of New Orleans in the MSM.
April 6th, 2008 at 9:33 amWell, as long as we’re throwing names out there, I’m for Haley Barbour…
April 6th, 2008 at 9:33 amYet another reason I’m not a Republican. That center of the road mentality will only end in a head-on collision.
April 6th, 2008 at 9:34 amThe last thing we need is another Arkansan politician in the White House. Huck seems like a friendly guy and all, but what is needed is someone who can make difficult, sometimes unpopular decisions.
April 6th, 2008 at 9:35 amI’ve slowly come on board for Juan McAmnesty, but if he chooses Fuckleberry as VP, there is no chance in hell that I’ll vote Repug. Huckster is a real piece of shit.
April 6th, 2008 at 10:41 amGreat, if we try hard enough, we can piss off every one on the right. Sadly, it could happen, Huck and Mac will be able to work together for illegal immigrant rights while saving the world from global warming(coldening?) with a little social engineering thrown in for good measure. Those two could actually manage to lose this for us and assure Democrat control of all branches for several generations to come.
April 6th, 2008 at 10:45 am300 plus million, give or take 20 mil illegals, and this is the best we can come up with—-
April 6th, 2008 at 10:48 amlast call folks, it’s closin time!
Like I said … Wake me in November.
April 6th, 2008 at 11:04 amI’d prefer Paul over Huck!
April 6th, 2008 at 11:19 amI pray that it’s not Dingleberry, er Huckabee…
April 6th, 2008 at 12:39 pmRON PAUL!!!! tell me you’re kidding !!!!!!!
Ron Paul is a flippin nut case !!!!!!!! Worse than McCain, worse than the Huckster. You got to be kidding.
April 6th, 2008 at 1:05 pmbd,
I was
Just trying to illustrate how low on the totem pole I put huckasuck. While Paul has some good points, fine points that I like, his isolationist foreign policy is outdated and dangerous. And right now, I’m voting for the guys who will win the war and support our troops above all else. And if that means holding my nose and voting for the mccain/huck ticket, by God I’ll do it.
I think though that this poll is kinda dumb. The LEADER for the vp nom is 18 percent. Not to mention there’s plenty more time for better conservatives to show up before we all clamor for the Democrat-lite mccain/huck ticket.
April 6th, 2008 at 2:35 pmMcCain Veepstakes: Fred Thompson?!?
April 6th, 2008 at 3:17 pmhttp://www.bloggernews.net/114988
THOMPSON VISITING MCCAIN THIS WEEKEND
April 6th, 2008 at 3:20 pmhttp://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/04/05/863020.aspx
Gallup: Huckabee Favorite For McCain V.P.
it will never happen, inside the DNC headquarters last Nov. through Jan. staffers were referring to Huckabee as “The Glass Jaw”
April 6th, 2008 at 4:08 pmJust when I thought I’d seen the last of Schmuckleberry.
April 6th, 2008 at 5:09 pmTime for the Maricopan candidate- Joe Arpaio.
April 6th, 2008 at 10:51 pm