Huckabee Kinda Wins Kinda Big in West Virginia
It's crazy time in Wild West Virginia today!
After an initial round of voting, Mitt Romney had a small, but insufficient, lead over Mike Huckabee in the state's archaic GOP convention (in which men barter pigs, moonshine and daughters for delegates… or something like that.) John McCain, who had not been campaigning in the state, was in third place.
So, with no clear majority winner in the, they did what they had to do and lopped off the biggest loser. Which, to everyone's amazement, was Ron Paul. Imagine that. And then they voted again.
Now, ordinarily, you'd think that subtracting Ron Paul from the equation would make things more sensible. But not in West Virginia.
Apparently, all the McCain supporters, already knowing they were bound to lose, dropped their McCain votes and opted instead for Huckabee, because he's essentially a neutered dog. And because he's not Mitt Romney.
So, Romney loses. McCain loses, but less so. And Huckabee gets a sad, pathetic kind of win. Brilliant!
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I don't understand why Ron Paul isn't more popular in the polls! I keep reading that he has a much bigger internet following than any other candidate, so what is the problem? Are the people who are online not going out and voting? And if not, why not? The whole point of Ron Paul's message is that the individual has to take power of their own destiny. It can't be up to the government or anyone else to control our destinies. Don't people realize how important voting is? I think a big part of the problem is that it's not widely advertised when and where to vote, which is so wrong, seeing as how that's the way our country is supposed to be run. It's just more proof of how the media is trying to control the population.
Most West Virginians didn't even know about the convention today. Heck, I didn't know until yesterday and I work for the State Senate! My Republican friends thought they'd get to vote in May (like our votes would matter by then).
With these teeth I'm a shoe in for eatin corn through a picket fence.
But with these teeth I'm sure to win the eatin corn through a picket fence contest.