Huckabee Pushing for Brokered Convention

From WOAI Radio comes an article claiming Mike Huckabee is placing his hopes on forcing a brokered convention by winning in Texas and Ohio, thus denying John McCain a walk-way victory for the primary.

Huckabee says with an upset win in Texas, and a win in the Ohio Republican primary the same day, Huckabee could deny front runner John McCain the nomination in the primaries.

“If we win Texas, I think it changes the dynamics of this race. It could well go all the way to the convention. If the convention delegates pick the president, chances are they would pick the most conservative. I would be the one they would end up picking, if that’s the criteria.”

Such a scenario would be better than we have now, as Huckabee would definitely be more conservative than McCain.

What I wonder is whether some of the candidates who have already pulled out of the race could throw their hats back in the ring. After all, even though Huckabee is better than McCain, he’s far from a conservative.

It would be good to have some real conservative choices back in the game, like Tom Tancredo or even Duncan Hunter. Hunter has an unassailably conservative record across the board. He hasn’t waffled on immigration, defense, marriage, pro-life issues, religious rights, crime, the war on terrorism, or anything.

Duncan Hunter is the man who should have been the GOP nominee. But in a choice of McCain or Huckabee, I’ll take Huckabee.

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