Huckabee wins in West Virginia

I think it is CHEATING for West Virginia delegates to purpose to back Huckabee because he is not the candidate of choice for mist of West Virginia voters!

It is inexcusable for any McCain delegate to try and bully any other delegate to do anything! I expect their is some dishonest cheating going on in West Virginia and they should be ashamed of themselves.

Unbelievable! Now no one can deny the dirty little tricks that Huckabee and McCain have going together. Romney obviously won the first round so Mccain gave his okay on putting his votes to Huckabee so that Romney would lose the next round. Doesn't Mccain realize that he is just giving Romney more dirt to use against him. What a slime ball. Let the peoples voice be heard which was obviously for Romney.
Vote for Mitt Romney!

This makes the Winner Take All rule look pretty bad. I'm not a Romney fan, but I think he got shafted. But I also don't blame McCain's people; they are just playing the game within the rules. It's just the wrong set of rules.

Give me a break! You know full well that Romney won the first round and only by combining Huckabee and Mccains votes was Huckabee able to pull it off. Romney has had to, in a sense, run a campaign of one against two. Huckabee and Mccain are like two bullies on a playground that know they can’t win on their own so they play dirty tricks together to try and take the stronger candidate, Mitt Romney, down. The people of this country are taking notice and will not stand for these kind of low brow tactics and it will be the undoing of both McCain and Huckabee in the end.
Vote for Mitt Romney so that we can have a man of class and integrity running the White House!

More of McCain's dirty tricks! I don't know if McCain promised Guilliani, or Huckabee the Vice President Position if they would help him defeat Romney. This election is a joke. Romney is clearly the BEST Candidate for our country.

This is shameful. This alliance between Huckabee and McCain is disgraceful to American politics. Who does this? This kind of garbage undermines the American republic and the value of individual votes. This just gives more reason to not vote for these two bozos in the general primary. They continue to pander to each others causes and political gain which is nothing short of disgraceful. Huckabee backed McCain in New Hampshire and now Mccain for Huckabee. This is a sad day in America where candidates are cutting back-door deals to get political advantage and gain. I think this just adds to my intentions to vote for the only honest candidate in this republican race....Mitt Romney.

GREAT JOB GOVERNOR HUCKABEE!!

WE CAN WIN THIS!

HUCKABEE 08

Also under the rules, Paul was taken off the second ballot.

West VA caucuse...1st vote Romney 41%...50% required, 2nd vote McCains people told to throw in with Huckabee..other words a dirty filthy scam.

You have got to be kidding me. West Virginia votes Romney then McCain voters throw all their support behind Huckabee to keep Romney from getting the delegates. These two jokers, Huck and Mc, have formed an obnoxious union.

What is the Wal-mart thing Huckabee said this morning? “I think there are more Wal-mart Republicans than Wall Street Republicans.” When, in America, did we start admiring failure and condemning success? Wal-mart is notorious for low pay, avoiding benefits, and buying cheap foreign goods. Snapper lawn mowers quit doing business with Wal-mart rather than move their production from Georgia to China to meet Wal-mart’s demands.

Huckabee’s method of supporting the common man is no support at all. (I do not care if Wal-mart’s CEO is Huck’s major supporter).

McCain has little knowledge of economics either. Understanding the “Wal-mart Effect” is maybe a good primer for McCain.

Something really seems fishy here between McCain and Huckabee.

Huckabee can say nothing but good about the front runner McCain and then doesn't drop out of the race when he has no chance of winning after Florida. Not enough evidence for a conviction but there appears to be something there. Then, McCain tells voters in WV to vote the second time for Huckabee to keep the vote away from Romney, the individual the majority of WV’s liked as their first choice candidate. Add these together and presto – a shady back room deal between Huckabee and McCain. Maybe there is nothing there, as an average citizen we will never know, but it bothers me how this all went down.

THIS IS WHAT IS WRONG WITH WASHINGTON AND WILL NOT CHANGE WITH MCCAIN.

Vote for the citizen Romney not the career politician McCain!

This is reprehensible. McCain and Huckabee disgust me and I'm more determined than ever to make sure that neither of them make it into the White House.

While McCain derailed Romney by throwing his support to Huckabee, his actions clearly show that "Mr. Truth All The Time" is actually "Mr. I will Do Anything To Win" despite his claim to honor and integrity above all.

mccain is a loser.this is about the heart & soul of the conservative republican party

John McCain's campaign tactics is clearly a continuation of his backroom deal politics. We shouldn't be surprised as this is the same way he and Kennedy tried to sneak in that amnesty immigration bill. Fortunately all Americans on both sides objected to that stupid bill. McCain is clearly a liberal slim ball. If he wins the GOP nomination then there will be 2 Democrats to choose from. I am a Conservative Republican and I will throw my vote to the Democrats just because McCain cannot be trusted. He does not represent my Conservative values. Mr. Romney is a close as we have to a conservative. Plus, I would rather a Democrat get the blame for screwing up this country!

Second voting. What is this Florida all over again. We need to keep revoting until we get the outcome we want. I know, I know - McCain transferrred his support to Huckabee and this type of backroom deals is how politics is played... but it still looks slimy.

Mccain is a disgrace. Its obivous that Huckabee has been offered the V.P. to stay in the race. If there is a "Mccain - Huckabee" ticket I will vote for the democratic nominee

Crappy as it is, at least you have more than one on your ballot. I've been voting in the PA primaries since 1972, and it's always been over - 1 candidate! - by the time we vote.
Not sure what's worse. The slime, or no choice at all!

Governor Mike Huckabee is the best candidate running! He has won Iowa, he has won West Virginia, he is leading Tennessee and Alabama and tied for 1st with McCain in Georgia according to the polls.

He has the most exectutive experience of anyone running - Republican or Democrat
He was re-elected Governor of Arkansas until his term limits expired
He was named ONE OF THE BEST FIVE GOVERNORS IN AMERICA by Time Magazine
He is for real and he is AUTHENTIC - WE TRUST MIKE HUCKABEE!!!

Didn't all of you Romney supporters get his memo?, "No Whining. " Or at least that was his position yesterday.

Ron PAUL won THREE of the W.Va. Delegates...

Maybe I am missing something here....

The rule says that you must have 50% to win, if someone doesn't on the first vote, they vote again.

So if no one, other than the Paul people, move their vote, the election will never end.

Go Huckabee! They left you for dead but you've risen again. We can do this and we will make it to the Whte despit all the false negative comments.

I don't see where any rules have been broken, do you?

Before today, I was willing to hold my nose and vote for McCain. No more. I will never vote for McCain or Huckabee after todays stunt, and will stay home in November.

For all of the talk about a Mormon in the Whitehouse, if this is what the Baptist preacher pulls, it seems like it should be the baptists that we are afraid of.

Shame on McCain and Hackabee

In response to the comment by Steve...
Are you kidding me? You wanna say that they're whining? They are just pointing out how backward the system is and how that deal is just wrong.

Making the public aware of what happened isn't whining. It's called being informed... informed to what kind of guys McCain and Huck are - sellouts!

I really don't see too much of a problem here; the rules allow it. No rules were broken.

I'm no big fan of McCain (who is not a conservative) Romney (who flips flops for political purposes and plays the political game just as good as the rest of them). None of them are Ronald Reagan or Pat Buchanan. Romney is a bit of a hypocrite here, though. If Huckabee or Paul threw their votes to him, anyone wanna' bet we would've seen a different statement put out by his camp today? :-)

Excuse me, you Romney folks are ridiculous. A democratic system means the winning candidate has the support of a MAJORITY, not PLURALITY (50% plus one). The supporters of eliminated candidates can throw their weight behind someone else. So, how do you say Huckabee won but was not the choice of WV voters? Romney was NOT the choice of WV voters. He could not even muster a majority against a nationally non-viable candidate in a two-man race! If he weren't so evil and rude in the course of the campaign, maybe everyone would not hate him so much. And, btw, it looks like Ron Paul's folks went mostly for Huck too! Probably zero deal there. If you win 40% and the next person wins 35% but the rest prefer the latter, THE FORMER IS NOT THE PEOPLE'S CHOICE!!!!

Did you all whine like this during any of the other caucus type events that eliminated non-viable candidates after a first vote? I may be going out on a limb here, but I'm pretty sure the candidates and the citizens of W. Va. know how this game is played. If Romney isn't man enough to lose gracefully by the rules, then he isn't man enough to be the prez, either.

Americans should be scared. Very scared! To see in this day and age a candidate run on an unacclaimed but undisguised religious platform is frightening. Not that Huckabee will return us to the days of the Know-Nothings, but Huckabee's religious Populism is worrisome.

When noone wins in the first round of voting, the votes are not any candidate's to throw in one direction or the other. When you direct votes in one direction or another when they are not "yours", it is dirty politics and flat out wrong.