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UPDATE (7:26 AM): Ack! She’s at it again! But now she’s feeling persecuted and marginalized. Poor, fragile thing. Sniff….

ORIGINAL POST: More McCain and Huckabee hate is emanating from Michelle Malkin’s Web site. Now she’s wagging a bony, accusatory finger at the fact that the Huckabee campaign is calling for an investigation of the Washington State caucus results. From The Seattle Times:

The results of the state Republican caucuses were called into question today after presidential candidate Mike Huckabee challenged the party’s declaration that Arizona Sen. John McCain had won the delegate count.

Huckabee’s campaign took issue with the fact that Washington state Republican Party Chairman Luke Esser called the race Saturday night with 87 percent of the precincts counted. At that point, McCain was ahead of Huckabee by 242 delegates out of the 13,000 counted, Esser said. The Huckabee campaign contends there were another 1,500 or so delegates not counted.

In the face of the Huckabee protest, the state Republican Party quickly resumed its count today, a bit sooner than it had planned.

[…]

Esser’s acceleration of the count hasn’t altered the Huckabee campaign’s intent to investigate. Its lawyers should reach the state by late today, said James P. Pinkerton, a campaign spokesman.

“This clearly requires a full excavation as to what happened,” Pinkerton said. “The political impact of calling an election before all the votes are counted is pretty seismic. Chairman Esser should fully explain what happened and why to the satisfaction of all Washington state Republicans and all Republicans nationwide.”

Okay, I think I understand why Huckabee wants this deal investigated. Why, indeed, did Esser call the campaign with only 87% of the precincts counted?

Even Malkin seems to understand that part:

If something fishy happened, it should be exposed.

Agreed, Michelle. But then she goes off onto a completely unrelated (and bizarre) tangent and tries to manufacture some sort of McCain-Huckabee conspiracy theory:

I will add this, though: Imagine if it were Romney challenging the Wash. results and continuing to press on with his campaign instead of Huck.

Can you imagine the recriminations and ad hominem attacks that would come his way for refusing to step down and fall in line and “close ranks?” [Emphasis added.]

Say what? What does EX-candidate Mitt Romney have to do with the caucus results in Washington State, for Christ’s sake? He’s gone. He quit. He didn’t compete. He wasn’t there. I’ve looked around the internet and haven’t seen any indication that Romney is commenting on this ruckus. So why are you whining about it, Michelle? If Romney isn’t having a petulant frenzy about the Washington State thing, why should you?

As for “recriminations and ad hominem attacks,” I can’t find any indication on the Malkin site that she mentioned, much less condemned, the nasty McCain swiftboat flyers that were surreptitiously propagated during the South Carolina primaries:

These flyers were paid for and distributed by Vietnam Veterans Against John McCain. Check out the logo at the bottom left of the flyer.

Yep, paid for and distributed by non other than the Swift Boat Vets For Truth.

So where’s the indignation there, Michelle Malkin? Or does your moral compass have a manual on and off switch? Do you believe that fair play and decency should only apply to people who have received your moral approbation? Really, now….

So Malkin continues:

Yet, none of that has been directed at McCain’s good friend, Huckabee, who’s playing hardball and amassing his power base for the future.

Ooops! There’s that funky “conspiracy” thing she’s trying to make up (out of whole cloth) and foist on her minions.

Heee! Ain’t it great?

So she ends her post with this thought:

Interesting dynamics at play here, no? [Wink, wink.]

No. Not really. Not really interesting at all.

Wink, wink.

In closing, I’d like to point out that a couple of people who commented on Malkin’s post were able to see through the bullshit.

ThackerAgency said:

COME ON Michelle. PLEASE refrain from calling Romney (the multimillionaire) a ‘victim’. Romney’s decision to drop out of the race was HIS DECISION.

Romney was hemorrhaging money because he was buying TV commercials demonizing everyone else in the field. I personally have a hard time having sympathy for him.

He would still be in the race now if it didn’t cost him so much. The reason Huckabee is still there is because a. he didn’t drop out (though everyone is asking him to) and b. because his campaign from the beginning has run on a shoestring budget.

Save your sanctimonious woe is me Romney is a victim rants for victims that truly deserve it.

If Americans think that a multi millionaire several times over is a victim then our society deserves to fall to people who understand what victimization truly is. Romney isn’t a victim.

And dominigan said:

Ok, I’m not sure where this herd is going. A lot of these comments would be more appropriate on dKos.

So it sounds like the Washington State GOP chairman tried to throw the race to McCain using a trick as sleazy as the Democrats would use (in the same state no less).

Then we have Huckabee challenging the results based upon these sleazy tricks.

And… most people here want to shoot the messenger? Where are your principals?

I don’t really care for Huckabee, but if the Washington State GOP Chairman is pulling this crap, then it needs to be exposed! I don’t care who the messenger is, this needs to be cleaned up!

Way to go, dominigan and ThackerAgency.  I’m with you!

I’d like to point out that I’m not the only person who’s noticed Malkin’s cynical anti-McCain rants. Check out Bill Jempty’s post on wizbang for his look at the very same Malkin post. (Sometimes it does a guy’s heart good to realize that he’s not the only one who “sees something fishy”.)

Sorry, Michelle.  I couldn’t resist.

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