Would you vote for John McCain?

[Soundbreaker Welch?]

I think I would, though I was hoping Mitt Rommey would win.

That's assuming Mike Huckabee doesn't pull off a spectacular coup at the convention!

[ToughOmbre]

Originally Posted by Soundbreaker Welch?

I think I would, though I was hoping Mitt Rommey would win.

Considering the alternative(s), it's a no-brainer.

TO

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

I am still undecided but I sure as hell am not voting Democrat.

[syscom3]

Under protest, I will vote for McCain.

Under absolutely no circumstance would I ever vote for the "Huckster", or for a McCain/Huckster ticket.

I would venture to say that even a Huckster running as VP would permanently destroy the GOP, by driving the more moderate republicans out of the party.

[oldbikewrench]

Regardless of who wins the office of U.S. President I will still respect the office, its elected official, and continue to be a good citizen. I will be to voting for Mike Huckabee though.

[magnocain]

I like Huckabee the most, but McCain is a close second.
Huckabee 99%
McCain 80%
Rommey 45%
Obama 20%
Clinton 0%

[Njaco]

I could not vote for Huckabee after what his son did years ago and his reaction to it. Just flotsam from my job.

But if it came down to it, McCain would get my vote, only because I believe he would make a better CIC than the others, especially the dems. Still rooting from Romney.

[Thorlifter]

Originally Posted by magnocain

I like Huckabee the most, but McCain is a close second.
Huckabee 99%
McCain 80%
Rommey 45%
Obama 20%
Clinton 0%

That's close for me

Huckabee 99%
McCain 80%
Rommey 45%
Obama 0%
Clinton 0%

I'll vote for my deceased dog before I vote democrat. McCain scares me. Some of his policies, he is no better than Hillary.

[freebird]

Originally Posted by Njaco

I could not vote for Huckabee after what his son did years ago and his reaction to it. Just flotsam from my job.

But if it came down to it, McCain would get my vote, only because I believe he would make a better CIC than the others, especially the dems. Still rooting from Romney.

What did his son do? What was the reaction?

[Njaco]

Just a quick article about it but from what I read his son was involved, Huckabee intervened and his son went on to make Eagle Scout which, to me, is kinda ridiculus, given the Boy Scout creed. But from what I've read, Huckabee's actions were a bit.....suspect.

Son?s Past Could Come Back to Bite Huckabee | Newsweek Periscope | Newsweek.com

A Son’s Past Deeds Come Back To Bite Huckabee
By Michael Isikoff and Holly Bailey | NEWSWEEK
Dec 24, 2007 Issue | Updated: 2:51 p.m. ET Dec 15, 2007

As Mike Huckabee gains in the polls, the former Arkansas governor is finding that his record in office is getting more scrutiny. One issue likely to get attention is his handling of a sensitive family matter: allegations that one of his sons was involved in the hanging of a stray dog at a Boy Scout camp in 1998. The incident led to the dismissal of David Huckabee, then 17, from his job as a counselor at Camp Pioneer in Hatfield, Ark. It also prompted the local prosecuting attorney— bombarded with complaints generated by a national animal-rights group—to write a letter to the Arkansas state police seeking help investigating whether David and another teenager had violated state animal-cruelty laws. The state police never granted the request, and no charges were ever filed. But John Bailey, then the director of Arkansas's state police, tells NEWSWEEK that Governor Huckabee's chief of staff and personal lawyer both leaned on him to write a letter officially denying the local prosecutor's request. Bailey, a career officer who had been appointed chief by Huckabee's Democratic predecessor, said he viewed the lawyer's intervention as improper and terminated the conversation. Seven months later, he was called into Huckabee's office and fired. "I've lost confidence in your ability to do your job," Bailey says Huckabee told him. One reason Huckabee cited was "I couldn't get you to help me with my son when I had that problem," according to Bailey. "Without question, [Huckabee] was making a conscious attempt to keep the state police from investigating his son," says I. C. Smith, the former FBI chief in Little Rock, who worked closely with Bailey and called him a "courageous" and "very solid" professional.

Huckabee called Bailey's account "totally untrue" and described him as a "bitter" exemployee. "I asked him to resign because he had so alienated the entire state police," he said. "It had nothing to do with my son." Brenda Turner, Huckabee's then chief of staff, and Kevin Crass, the Huckabee family lawyer, also disputed Bailey's account, although both acknowledged talking to him about the dog killing. "I asked him, 'Is it normal for the state police to … investigate something that happened at a Boy Scout camp?' " Turner says. "We wanted the same treatment that anybody else would get." (Animal cruelty in Arkansas is a misdemeanor, not a felony.)

The details of the incident remain murky. The Animal Legal Defense Fund got an anonymous fax that summer alleging that David Huckabee and another youth had been involved in the hanging of a stray dog at the camp on July 11. A local animal-rights activist, Joyce Hillard, later contacted the camp director. Notes of Hillard's report to the defense fund read, "Boys confessed & were fired. Dir. is making excuses, saying dog was sic & boys were putting him out of his misery." (The director told NEWSWEEK only that a stray dog was "put down" and that the counselors were fired for violating the Scout credo to be "kind.") The father of the other counselor was quoted by the Arkansas Democrat Gazette in August 1998 as saying that his son found the dog "hung over a limb and choking." David Huckabee did not respond to requests for comment. (In April of this year, he was arrested—and paid a fine—when he forgot to remove a loaded gun from his carry-on luggage at Little Rock airport.) His father told NEWSWEEK that his son did not engage in "intentional torture." "There was a dog that apparently had mange and was absolutely, I guess, emaciated." A campaign official says David "regrets" the incident and notes that he later made Eagle Scout.

© 2007 Newsweek, Inc.

[magnocain]

Thanks for the info, but I'm still for Huckabee

[Arsenal VG-33]

Strangely enough, I find myself drawn towards Ron Paul. I like what he says, and how he says it. Unfortunately, he doesn't have a chance in hell. My 2nd choice has always been McCain. I'm just glad Romney is out, I couldn't stand him.

[Erich]

any chance the pick could be by the people instead of supposed popular govt. electoral vote by state ? probably no, personally they can all go to hell in a handbasket, 08 is gonna be bad whoever gets in. My mtn retreat is looking more favorable each and every day

[Bucksnort101]

personally they can all go to hell in a handbasket, 08 is gonna be bad whoever gets in. My mtn retreat is looking more favorable each and every day

Got to agree with you 100% on that comment. Got a spare room in your retreat for me?

[renrich]

Mrs Hussein Obama says for the first time in her adult life she is proud of her country(presumably the US) I hope that all the WW2 veterans who helped defeat Hitler and Tojo, the men who kept South Korea free from the fate of the North Koreans, the men who tried to keep South Viet Nam free from communism, the men who freed Kuwait from Hussein and the men who have freed Iraq from Hussein don't feel slighted!