Sean Hannity Goes On Crying Jag because Huckabee Wins a State!!!

I have been listening to Sean talk about how "unfair" it was that Huckabee won WV. Good grief it was a Caucus!!!

He said said that spreading the West Virginia results was tantamount to manipulating the election and that was going to lead to voter suppression. (Really so Romney can go to Nevada on the day of SC and that is great but this is bad?).

He even said that what happened in West Virginia was questionable.(what? It is a caucus) I thought Sean was a "great American" but he seems to be trying to defame our elections on dubious grounds. It is sort of like the Iowa Caucus. If your person didn't get 15% the other people try to get you to vote for your candidate. Wow as I am typing this he has Team Romney on complaining. What a Cluster####.

Huckabee wins WV and you would think it is 9/11. GOd helps us in a few hours. Why are they upset. Well the New York Times reports this morning
An interview with John McCutcheon, a state consultant for Mitt Romney, made clear why he is expected to win easily.
“We have had the only organizational presence in West Virginia to speak of,” said John McCutcheon, a state consultant for Mr. Romney. “It’s all Romney all the time.”

Mr. McCutcheon, who has been working with Mr. Romney since 2006, when he had only a national political action committee. The campaign’s field director, Wendy McCuskey, was hired over the summer. In all, the campaign has three paid people in the state, along with hundreds of volunteers.

Early on, the campaign had believed West Virginia might be one of the early voting states before Feb. 5. Even after it became clear that would not happen, the campaign still poured out significant resources in the state.

Mr. McCutcheon described an ambitious county-by-county ground operation, complete with phone-banking, direct mail and radio advertisements, compared to only modest efforts made by all the other candidates.

“Any presence that has come in has been last minute and skeletal,” he said about the other campaigns.

Oops. For more go this great post Romney seeths with impotent rage as West Virginia decides for Gov. Huckabee—more on Romney’s ridiculously low ROI for his every campaign dollar

I am sorry that if Mitt could not get over 41 percent on the first ballot. Huckabee had 37 percent. Does Sean expect them to amend the rules so his guy can win?

He is in full meltdown mode. The silliness needs to end. Conservative commentators need to either work for campaigns or try to faciliatate different views of conservative opinion at their day job.

The Rebellion he is seeing is people getting tired of it. Romney though in all his public statements the last 24 hours has said he is depending on "talk Radio" to get him the win. Good grief.
The problem with that for Team Romney is that they are then associated with every outbust like we are seeing across the spectrum today that these people make. It is indeed incredible.

I think this is a crucial mistake and it needs to be laid at the hands of Romney's campaign staff.

The Romney camp had a terrible morning anyway. GO see Romney forced to eat his unfortunate comments about Sen. Dole

What would have been the proper thing to do? Perhaps something radical perhaps like call Huckabee up and say Congrats.

There is a perception, rightly or wrongly, that Romney is not a very nice guy. That would have done wonders for him. Now potential Super Tuesday Voters who are watching the TV or listening to the radio and about to go vote just hear whining and "ITs Not Fair!!"

Update Newt is on now!!!!!

He is taking done of Hannity's BS
Newt says it is funny because Mike won and he wasn't supposed to. HaHa,
Newt blames Fred for SC loss. Says Fred was a spoiler for Huck, and Huck would have won. HaHa.
Newt is denying conspiracy.

Ha, Newt said that Huck said that "Huck's base won't go away."
He said that Huck will do well.
Newt just said that "Huck could shape the Republican platform to the more conservative part of the party."

Sean is ticked.

Newt said that "Huck entered with no base, won Iowa on shear guts, and said that Mike has every right to stay in the race."

HaHa, Newt said that "Huck has a better personality and relationships. "

Oh this is painful to watch.

Update II- Huckabee Campaign Manager Reminds Romney Camp about their Meme about No Whining-
By JAKE TAPPERLITTLE ROCK, ARKFeb. 5, 2008

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee's cell phone was ringing. On the other end was his campaign manager, Chip Saltsman. "Are you sittin' down?" Saltsman asked in his Tennessee drawl. "I've got some news for you from West Virginia." "What is it?" Huckabee asked.

Story The Note: Super Tuesday, Super Tense"

Our guys on the ground in West Virginia have been working really hard," Saltsman said, "and the news is you only won by a couple votes." It took a second for Huckabee to process what Saltsman was saying. "

Wait — did you say I won by a couple votes?" Huckabee asked. "That is great news!" Huckabee Takes First Super Tuesday ContestSuper Tuesday began with Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., holding 93 delegates, and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney holding 77. With his West Virginia win adding 18 delegates to his total, Huckabee now has 58 delegates. The winner of the GOP nomination will be the first to amass 1,191.

The West Virginia news provides some well-needed wind at the back for Huckabee, who hasn't won a contest since the Iowa caucuses. He, Romney and Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, who has four delegates, all campaigned in West Virginia on Tuesday. No winner emerged after the first round of voting at the West Virginia GOP convention, though Paul — who came in fourth — was eliminated. Romney led with 464 votes, or 41 percent, followed by Huckabee with 375 (33 percent), McCain with 176 (16 percent) and Paul with 118 (10 percent).

Video The Bottom Line on the Super PrimaryAs voting continued to a second round and it was clear McCain wouldn't win, many McCain supporters jumped to back Huckabee. With the support of those supporters who had gone in the first round for Paul and McCain, Huckabee squeaked past Romney for a win in the second round of voting.

Huckabee garnered 52 percent of the vote to Romney's 47 percent. "Unfortunately, this is what Senator McCain's inside Washington ways look like," griped Romney for President campaign manager Beth Myers. "He cut a backroom deal with the tax-and-spend candidate he thought could best stop Governor Romney's campaign of conservative change."

The Huckabee campaign denied there was any deal. "I'm sorry, I thought the Romney campaign sent out something (on Monday) saying there's no whining in politics," said Saltsman. "He got beat — period. Once again showing that Governor Romney's millions of dollars can't buy the election." Saltsman added that the loss impedes Romney's message that if Huckabee dropped out of the race he could unite the conservative wing of the party, defeat McCain and win the nomination. "If Romney got out of the way we could unite the conservative part of the party," Saltsman said.

Bob Fish, the CEO of the West Virginia Republican Presidential Convention, responded to Romney charges of a deal by telling ABC News: "Welcome to politics." "To anyone who speaks of 'a deal,' being made, as if that's critical, I guess I would say: 'Welcome to politics.' This is exactly what happens when you have an election of this type," Fish said.

One Romney adviser said glumly, "It's always a possibility when you don't win on the first ballot of these." is looking south for wins tonight, to his home state of Arkansas. He also hopes to pick up significant chunks of delegates in Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee and Oklahoma, and perhaps some others in states that aren't holding winner-take-all contests such as Minnesota and Montana