{"id":4731,"date":"2008-02-16T07:53:46","date_gmt":"2008-02-16T07:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/02\/mike-huckabee-will-not-be-mcca.html"},"modified":"2008-02-16T07:53:46","modified_gmt":"2008-02-16T07:53:46","slug":"mike-huckabee-will-not-be-mcca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/02\/mike-huckabee-will-not-be-mcca.html","title":{"rendered":"Mike Huckabee will not be McCain&#8217;s running mate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.townhall.com\/Columnists\/RobertDNovak\/2008\/02\/16\/hillarys_mcgovern_problem\">According to insiders in the McCain campaign<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Insiders close to Sen. John McCain&#8217;s presidential campaign have put out the word that there is absolutely no chance that his last remaining major opponent for the Republican presidential nomination, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, will become McCain&#8217;s vice presidential running mate. McCain personally likes Huckabee, and McCain&#8217;s campaign has not wanted to antagonize Huckabee&#8217;s evangelical supporters, whose backing will be needed in the general election. But McCain&#8217;s close advisers reject a place on the ticket for Huckabee, who is unacceptable to economic conservatives.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to insiders in the McCain campaign: Insiders close to Sen. John McCain&#8217;s presidential campaign have put out the word that there is absolutely no chance that his last remaining major opponent for the Republican presidential nomination, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, will become McCain&#8217;s vice presidential running mate. McCain personally likes Huckabee, and McCain&#8217;s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Mike Huckabee will not be McCain&#039;s running mate - Reformed Chicks Blabbing<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/02\/mike-huckabee-will-not-be-mcca.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mike Huckabee will not be McCain&#039;s running mate - Reformed Chicks Blabbing\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"According to insiders in the McCain campaign: Insiders close to Sen. 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