McCain selection for the Vice Presidency seem to be of great interest to Hunkabee these days and we could assume that for a moment Mike Hunkabee is wheeling and dealing in the background for this election. McCain choice could help unite the party and could win the election against one of the most Marxist liberals in he history of the Democrat party.
Hunkabee seems however less interested in uniting the party and more interested in losing he election. Perhaps thinking he would be the great white conservative savior in 2012 if McCain loses!
Hunkabee seems to open his mouth recently chastizing and warning McCain not to pick Romney for the Republican Party Vice president. Before November’s election McCain cannot win a election without the Mormon vote. There remains the question: did Huckabee undermine Romney’s campaign because of bigotry? What seems to many Mormons is that he did in southern states such as North Carolina and Florida where there was a chance of Romney winning.
Given current American voting trends , he would have no chance if he even thought about picking the Huckzbe as his Vice President without the swing states of Nevada (about 10% Mormon), Oregon (4%) and New Mexico (4%) will swing to the Democrats.
Remember that President Bush lost Oregon by a couple thousand votes in 2000; New Mexico by a few hundred and picked it up in 2004 by an equally slim margin.
Besides losing swing states in 2008, Republicans could also lose solidly red states if McCain embrace the Vice President with this kind of bigotry.
What would losing a large voting block in, if not the states of, Utah (1.8 million Mormons), Idaho (15%), Wyoming (14%), and Arizona (6%) (you don’t hear McCain bashing Mormons, do you?
In fact he’s done just the opposite) do for Republican hopes in 2008? Defections of Mormons in Colorado (131,000) and California (750,000) might cost a few Republican congressional seats. Losing the most-solidly Republican block in the country, the Mormons, or even putting it in play, would turn red states blue and eliminate any hopes of Republicans holding Colorado in the Senate or retaining the White House.
Mormons are tolerant folks, but they don’t tolerate anti-Mormon hostility, especially the bigotry that has been demonstrated by Huckabee’s supporters and, by extension Huckabee, for Huckabee’s failure to call them on it.
So, when all of these Mormons decide that they are not going to tolerate an anti-Mormon bigot along side McCain, will Mormons in those states vote for a third party or just stay home?
Both options are being openly discussed in Mormon circles. If it is a third party, Mormons trend Libertarian; but that is beside the point. I have many Mormon friends who see Bob Barr the former Republican turn Libertarian, as a alternative to McCain, if he picks a intolerant Bigot. How could a Mormon vote for McCain with a Vice President be who is completely intolerant of their faith?
Mormons have marched along supporting the candidates of the evangelical right for decades (who voted more reliably for Bush or Reagan than Mormons?
Some Mormons and many others he happens to be talking to are ready to leave the party if Huckabee is nominated for Vice President or his anti-Mormon campaign continues even when his nomination is impossible and should not be tolerated in the party. He seem to think that without the Momron vote McCain can still win? I wondering what Huckabee is smoking?
What if Idaho, Utah, Nevada and Arizona turns blue? Impossible? Not if a anti-Mormon is on the Republican ticket. Many critics say Romney can’t win without evangelicals, well, Huckabee or any other Republican can’t win without Mormons in 2008. It’s a two-way street. No Republican will win the presidency in 2008 without Mormons.
Before anyone discounts the idea of blue Mormons, consider that Harry Reid, the Democratic leader in the Senate is, a Mormon, who, despite being a Democrat, has enjoyed splitting the typically Republican Mormon vote in Nevada.
More telling is that Utah County, the home of BYU and the most densely Mormon and Republican area in Utah had a Democrat representing it in Congress for most of the 1990s.
If anyone has any questions about how strongly many Mormons feel about this, let me say that they are more likely to support Mike Huckabee for Vice President as Jesse Jackson would support David Duke.
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