Huckabee rejects Scarborough's Romneyganda

I've been going after MSNBC host Joe Scarborough a lot lately because that station is letting him run around unchecked for countless hours as an "objective journalist." I'm fine with "objective journalists" injecting a little bit of opinion here and there, but there isn't a moment when Scarborough is on camera that he isn't spinning stories for Mitt Romney. It's ridiculous and I can't think of any other news anchor on cable or network television that is allowed to feign the role of an unbiased reporter while incessantly pushing a campaign's narrative.

If MSNBC wants a pro-Romney point of view then they should get a neutral moderator and bring in talking heads from all sides. But having a Romney propagandist moderator defeats all efforts at neutrality. Add in MSNBC's go-to conservative talking head Pat Buchanan -- whose sister is a top adviser to the former Mass. governor -- and it might as well be a Romney campaign strategy session.

And I'm not the only one calling Scarborough and MSNBC on the spin overkill. On Thursday's Morning Joe, Scarborough spoke with Mike Huckabee (above video) and attempted to bait him into agreeing that the only reason John McCain was on his way to winning the GOP presidential nomination was that "there were three conservatives splitting the conservative vote." In his words, this gave McCain, "the moderate," room to sneak through. Scarborough also promoted the spin that "conservatives are coalescing around Romney."

Huckabee's candid response was that Romney was never a conservative until he decided he wanted to be president. And the punch line about Romney's "conservatism" was priceless: "Here's a man who didn't hit political puberty in the conservative ranks until 60 years old."

So, once again, is Scarborough really fair?

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[westernillstud]

Huckabee is right on! Right on Governor!

[404errorfilenotfound]

Huckabee really destroyed Romney here.

[nrobyar]

Huckabee was the true consistent conservative. Only because Romney had personal wealth and rich friends did he make ANY headway at all. Huckabee was authentic. He is right on target about Romney and why he didn't ring true and people were so turned off by him. All Romney's money could not buy him the votes!!! Huckabe got more delegates per $ spent than ANY candidate!!! Pure message and charisma!!

[geargemartin]

i can find no flaw in your analysis. i still hold out hope the conservative base will come around. with them and moderate independents i believe there's a chance McCain might prevail. i just pray its not a forlorn hope.

[Brad2070]

I will vote Mccain. Many will sit out, it will happen just like the 2006 Congressional elctions. This is why I never bought Mccain as the "most elctable". I have said this for months and months Obama will win the nomination and Presidency. I dont like it, but watch the way he speaks the masses.They follow him blindly. I say he is dangerous individual.

[Brad2070]

Its not this particular cycle that conservatives are concerned with they fear that if you reward this more moderate voice Republicans will slowly drift away from conservative principles much in the fashion of how over time Democrats have drifted farther left. Atleast that is my fear.

[geargemartin]

for conservative republicans to sit out the election because of their disapproval of McCain would be disservice to our nation and our party. to refuse to vote would all but guarantee a democrat victory. that to me is a greater evil than a Mccain administration.

[geargemartin]

i voted huckabee in florida. you must have misread my reply to truthforamerica. as to sitting out the race, i've voted republican in every election sense 1964. i'm not about to stop now. my commitment to the republican party and the united states is more important than my disappointment of our presumed nominee. their is no perfect candidate but with a 80+% conservative voting record i can live with McCain. a democrat in office would be a disaster for our nation.

[Bongonesia]

gearge,

I agree with the first part of your paragraph--Huckabee should remain in the race and keep fighting McCain.

As for the second part, some people (evangelical James Dobson, in particular, I'm thinking, and maybe myself when the general election arrives) won't even vote for McCain, as a matter of conscience.

Is it worth keeping the Republican party strong if its leader is liberal?

[Bongonesia]

It may be too bad that you voted for Romney, because in certain states it was Romney who split the conservative vote, not Mike Huckabee.

[geargemartin]

agreed, but time is running short. right now i like the idea of Huck staying in the race as a reminder to McCain not to take conservatives for granted. mike huckabee keeps the mainstream conservative mantle alight. but it's important that should McCain get the nomination, we as republicans must give him our support or risk a dangerously liberal president. a moderate that leans right (McCain) is far more preferable to a out and out socialist.

[Brad2070]

All we hear is how Huckabee is stealing Romneys votes, but I dont see it that way SC would have been won if not for Thompson and yes Romney. Lets look and see whose still in the game now. Now that Romeny is finally out of the way and Huckabee is holding his own they say "step down". Yes its a long shot, but its a shot well take it over a Mccain nomination.