Republicans act true to form

Only Republicans could believe in running an election and they trying to stop the counting of the ballots in the middle as soon as their favorite is in the lead. The Washington Republicans are refusing to count the last 13% of the ballots and have declared McCain the winner even though he's only leading by less than 2%.

Republican Mike Huckabee says he's not ready to concede Washington state, even though the state Republican Party has declared Arizona Sen. John McCain the winner of Saturday's caucuses.

On NBC's "Meet the Press" this morning, the former Arkansas governor said his campaign is looking into some legal issues, without going into specifics.

Huckabee's campaign blog, though, offers this: "The Washington State GOP, with 87.2 percent reporting, discontinued the counting process. We are looking into the matter. We are committed to making certain EVERY vote is counted. We will keep you posted."

McCain won 26 percent of delegates, Huckabee won 24 percent, Texas Rep. Ron Paul finished with 21 percent, and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who has dropped out of the race, got 17 percent.

Seems to me we've seen this kind of behavior before. Florida 2000 comes to mind. It seems to be a Republican habit.