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Huckabee: Romney engaged in “voter suppression”

Apparently, trying to convince the electorate to vote for you and not the other guys qualifies as “voter suppression” in Schmuckabee’s book.  From You Decide 2008:

Huckabee’s accusation followed Romney’s remarks to FOX News last week, in which the former Massachusetts governor said: “A vote for Huckabee is a vote for McCain, and if they want John McCain as their nominee … that’s exactly what the vote would do.”Huckabee then cast Romney’s comment as an attempt to keep voters from going to the polls.

“If you try to discourage people from voting for somebody, what else would you call it? Isn’t voter suppression when you try to keep people from voting a certain way, by anybody’s definition? … Isn’t that voter suppression, suppressing the vote, pushing it down, keeping people from feeling comfortable and going and making a vote? I think that’s exactly what it is,” Huckabee told reporters during a stop in Chattanooga, Tenn., on Monday.

But Romney, speaking in Atlanta, dismissed the charge, saying Huckabee has misused the term.

“First a couple of rules in politics. One, no whining. And Number 2, you get them to vote for you. And so I want them not to vote for Mike Huckabee and not to vote for John McCain and to vote for me. … That’s not voter suppression. That’s known as politics,” Romney said. “I want people to vote, but I want them to vote for me.”

Are we then to surmise that the Huckster has engaged in some “voter suppression” himself in his career?  I mean, he was the governor of Arkansas, and I’m assuming he campaigned for that job, asking folks to vote for him.  I also assume he’s done the same thing in this campaign, asking folks to vote for him. Chuck Norris endorsed you, dude…don’t humiliate him!

Quit whining and drop out, Schmuck.  Your siphoning votes away from a real man.

February 5, 2008 - Posted by crushliberalism | Huckabee, Romney