Huckster – You’ve Officially Over-Stayed Your Welcome

The Huckster has indeed over-extended (to use the modern day PC verbiage) his welcome. He has hung around this primary season about a month longer than he should have creating what I, and millions like me, hope is a false sense of inevitability in the Juan MexiCain campaign. At this point all Huckster is doing is splintering off votes from Mitt Romney. And I say this with a level of confidence as certain as day is light and night is dark.

For sure, there is a bigoted element in the supporters of Huckster that will refuse to vote for a Mormon. This I also say with a level of confidence as certain as day is light and night is dark. Huckster plays on the evangelical notion that if it isn’t written in whatever officially approved bible they embrace, it is not so. These are the same morons who are willing to ignore 2000 years of Christian tradition in the name of a myopic theology known as Sole Scriptura. To this minority, yes I said minority, of Americans, the most qualified person in this race to be our next President is not worth their vote. They would rather back someone who has the chances of winning this race somewhat equivalent to that of Mahmoud Iwannajihad becoming an Israeli citizen.

In the latest Rasmussen Daily Presidential Tracking Poll (2/4/08), Huckster is polling at 22% nationally. John “The Breck Girl” Edwards was polling higher than that in a 3 person race before he dropped out. Huckster is in a 4 man race and he can’t match Johnny’s numbers in spite of winning Iowa.

In that same Rasmussen Daily Presidential Tracking Poll (2/4/08), Mitt Romney and Juan MexiCain are neck and neck. The poll has MexiCain up 33% to Romney’s 30%. But with a +/-4% margin of error, that is a literal statistical dead heat.

Cartoonist Bob Gorrell

So why is the Huckster sticking it out? Now I don’t have any proof of this but the Conventional Wisdom prevailing in the Conservative Blogosphere seems to come to the conclusion that he’s sticking because of some yet undisclosed back-room agreement with Juan MexiCain. I understand that this is tin-foil hat wearing conspiracy theorist stuff, but it seems to make sense.

Huckster and Juan are using the evangelical Conservatives’ loyalty for one of their own to splinter the conservative vote which would naturally go to Mitt Romney if Huckster wasn’t playing religion bigot. Notice that Huckster has been on Romney for the whole race. He was the one who first attacked Romney for being a Mormon. It has been Huckster who has made this a contest about religious beliefs not Mitt. Juan is soaking up the benefits from this division and collecting the delegates to the convention.

I firmly believe that Huckster will win one, maybe two, states later today and will publicly acknowledge the futility of his campaign by the end of the week. This in spite of the fact that his campaign has been a futile effort since he announced his intentions of seeking the nomination.

For us FredHeads who are now supporting Romney, we can only hope that today is a split with Mitt taking a majority of delegates from Juan. This will throw the nomination into the hands of the voters in the late voting states like Ohio.

And what about Ron Paul (in the event you’ve forgotten, he’s the 4th in this race)? Sorry to inform the PaulBots infesting the Blogosphere but his measly 6% (no wonder he’s so easily over-looked) and a second place finish in Nevada isn’t going to quite be enough to snag the nomination. The Ron Paul campaign is another exercise in futility.

UPDATE 0445 EST

Discounting the 51 delegates which have been awarded to those who have dropped out or soon will (Paul and Huckster) the magic number to secure the nomination is 570. Romney needs 493 and MexiCain needs 477. To say that MexiCain has this wrapped up is not only pre-mature, it is a down right lie.

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