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14 Apr 2008 02:12 pm

Mike Huckabee seems to be up to something and it doesn't look good.

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Maybe it's the Rapture countdown!

What a great piece of PR. The clock countdown turns an amateur "coming soon" website into a great viral piece of publicity.

A new album?

If it's counting down till the 15th, odds are it has something to do with the Fair Tax.

Count on Anonymous to throw up a stumbling block to exciting options.

Romney and Huckabee are going to join together for an intra-faith acapella singalong.

Count on Anonymous to throw up a stumbling block to exciting options. Ignoring that unpleasant bit of reality:

Romney and Huckabee are going to join together for an intra-faith acapella singalong.

Running against Mark Pryor in Arkansas?

1. He's learning how to tell time.

2. It's the 6,666th anniversary of the Creation.

3. Barr-Huckabee 2008, baby!

Oh please please please be filing to run for president. Come on 4 "major" candidates. It would make my month

Senator McCain is going to take the Governor aside and say, "My friend, I can tell you for a fact that the Earth is older than 3000 years and that man didn't saddle up dinosaurs. I was there."

Spring-time, mid-week squirrel-bbq?

$5 says McCain announces Huckabee as his running mate.

THIS IS EXCELLENT NEWS!! FOR HILLARY!!!

I agree with idiotic.

Huckabee's going to announce a squirrel shoot-off and BBQ contest against Hillary and Hulk Hogan.

Doesn't that look like McCain's logo?

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gosh, got to wait til noon tomorrow (cdt) to find out...breathless in anticipation!

He's gonna release his tax returns?

As Wash said in "Serenity": "Do we care? Are we caring about that?"

I vote for an exhibition of performance art by Huckabee involving auto-fellatio as the most likely event.

Not at all surprisingly, the countdown has reached 0 and moved into negative territory. No further news on the page.

The Math

Yes, Huckabee will be entering the presidential race tommorrow. Oh, and Bloomberg will announce next week that he also is running, on a fourth party ticket.

No, this is not some revolt of the two wings of the Republican party against the center, or some such. Look, the party's only got two right wings, and no center, anyway, and still manages. They certainly wouldn't fall out with each other over a mere matter of wildly conflicting principles and ideology!

No, this is not the breakup of their party it might seem to be, but is actually a carefully orchestated plan implementing the latest application of Higher Rovian Math. Their theoretical psychometricians, using tensor analysis of polling data from the last 60 years, combined with the results of NSA data-mining whose sophistication is such that I may have to have all of you killed for even referring to it, have made a breakthrough on the order of the results of the Manhattan Project, of stunning intellectual breadth and depth, and allowing the achievement of an electoral miracle, a Republican win in 2008. Their equations tell them that, where r is the number of Republicans in the race, and d is the number of Democrats, in 2008, a situation in which r=3 and d=1 allows electoral space-time to fold in on itself, and a Republican walks out of the resulting wormhole with exactly 270.148265 Electoral College votes, give or take 0.000001 or 0.000002. It involves pluralities and winner-takes-all, weighted sub-group analysis of party ID fracture zones, with Delaware bingo parlor proprietors playing a mildly surprising key role in the final outcome, and the Supreme Court warming up in the bullpen just in case the quantum mechanics break wrong. Look, the math is way beyond anyone reading this thread, so you're just going to have to trust me on this one.

Oh, and you heard it here first.


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