Machiavellian Elegance
As General Patton said of war, I say of elections, “G-d help me, I love it!” The West Virginia Caucus that Huckabee won and Romney cried foul over was, indeed, a little less straightforward than it at first appeared. Romney dissed McCain for throwing support to Huckabee in order to deny Romney his rightful win. Of course, no one has a right to a vote or a win. We still use actual voters (or, I guess, caucusers?!). However, it now seems that McCain’s folk influenced Huckabee’s folk into getting the support of Ron Paul’s folk in return for letting three Ron Paul fans be delegates. In essence, they traded votes to another team for future draft choices. Wow! This is somewhere between Machiavellian and elegant.
All of which feeds into the conspirary theory I backed two weeks ago (and which has since grown in popularity): McCain will tap Huckabee as his running mate.
Chris
Conspiracy is way too loaded a word. How about plan or strategy? Coordinated effort would be good. My goodness if Huckabee and McCain are cooperating, they are the only conservatives to do so this season.
Cheers!
Jonathan
You got me, Jonathan. I plead guilty to a little blogging hyperbole. Sigh, it's so boring to have to be responsible!
Best,
Chris