Posted on 11/23/2008 10:37:09 AM PST by foutsc
I think Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney are both good men, and they both need to withdraw from Republican presidential politics. The running gun battles between the Huck and Mitt camps are not healthy for the conservative movement. Huck is a slick, smiling gut-fighter who easily lapses into thinly disguised anti-Mormon conceit and liberal tinged populism. Mitt is a wildly successful businessman who is also an ideological chameleon. I am tired of the bickering between these two men and their fervid supporters. Like matches and gasoline, each man is good in his own way, but mixed together they cause a conflagration that can only damage the conservative movement. And the arguments that spring up around this dreadful duo traffic in religion and personality rather than substantive issues. The ongoing argument has devolved into a third-world political mudball fight where the faithful worship their political idol and smear and demean the opponent. We need substantive debates on core issues, not personality contests. And these two shape-shifters and their cohorts have generated light and heat and sparks but very little substance. And for this reason I also believe we need to take a cold-eyed view of Sarah Palin. She is a woman of great accomplishment, but we need to drop the mythology and ask if she really has the foreign policy credentials to be president. Let's be honest, president Bush had no foreign policy experience, and I think that worked against him and the nation. President-Elect Obama does not, but it remains to be seen how that will work out. If it works out well for him, then Sarah Palin can make a case for herself by pointing to President Obama's success in spite of his inexperience. She can then make a case based on judgment and her Alaska record, which I think would put her in good stead. We need to drop the politics of personality and judge our candidates on the merits of their ideas and experience.
I wouldn’t trust Mike Huckabee as far as I could spit...
I don’t despise Romney nearly as much as the Huckster, but neither of them are the future of the GOP. I say Palin and Duncan Hunter are.
The MSM will be delighted to have Romney, Huckabee (and Buchanan) serve as the voice of the GOP in order to ensure the Dims retain the presidency and both houses of Congress. Put a bad face on the GOP (like McCain) is SOP.
Why?
Agreed.
Let Mitt write op-eds, start a PAC, raise money and/or campaign for people.
Let Huck do the same or concentrate on his talk show.
I don’t want either one of them to run for office again, unless Huck wants to take on Blanche Lincoln in Arkansas.
Agreed.
Let Mitt write op-eds, start a PAC, raise money and/or campaign for people.
Let Huck do the same or concentrate on his talk show.
I don’t want either one of them to run for office again, unless Huck wants to take on Blanche Lincoln in Arkansas.
Mitt I can do without—he is from MA, the home of voters supporting the most liberal bunch of deviants on the planet. Huckabee has been impressive when it comes to impromptu question and answer—he is obviously an intelligent guy putting Hussein and his followers further down on the list of the young and the stupid.
Huckabee ran for the sole purpose of taking Mitt out. I’m not a Mitt Romney fan in particular, but I don’t see much of a future for the GOP when religious bigotry is part of strategic machinations behind the scene in party politics.
And once again,, Hucks foreign policy experience was?? Mitts foreign policy experience, was,, the olympics and being a missionary after high school?? By this standard a well-traveled person becomes a foreign policy wonk?
Bullcrap. Sarah is just fine. And the problem with foreign policy “experience” isnt that they don’t know enough about the bizzare demands of funny foreigners, It’s that the American isnt a true believer in OUR system and nation.
Its amazing the standards people demand Sarah meet that nobody else has to.
Religion is very important to a lot of people. I would neveer vote for a Muslim. Call me a bigot - I don’t care.
All RINO’s, at every political level, seriously need to go away forever! Either the GOP really does become an all around conservative political party on all of the issues, or the Republican Party really does remain in the political minority for awhile, if not for even longer. Seeing many GOP leadership positions in both the next House and the next Senate still going to “establishment” Republicans instead of going to “new blood conservative” Republicans makes me believe that the GOP will be a minority political party for a long time. Also, there are still many others from within the GOP who keep pushing for the entire GOP to “move to the political middle” instead of “completely moving to the political right and staying at the political right for always”. The more restless conservatives, in total, will become, the longer that all of conservatism really remains as a political minority throughout the entire U.S.!
Huck enjoys being a star and I have no doubt he will run for president again. This new fox show for him is a platform for his new run for 2012. When I listen to him he sounds charming and he may seem conservative but something underneath is not right with him. I believe Romney would be good in the financial area but people don’t trust him trying to be a conservative as far as leadership in the GOP.
The Drive-Bys are out early pushing Huckabee and Romney so that we can have a repeat of 2008 in 2012.
All, don't let this happen. We need to push the next generation of candidates such as conservatives Jindal, Palin and Pence.
“Call me a bigot - I don’t care.”
Congratulations to you, love the mindset. It’s long overdue that our side stops caring about the name-calling and other criticisms from the left that keep us from thinking properly and exercising proper judgement. Screw them, and I won’t be voting for any Muslims either.
Funny, you would never vote for a muslim....but many who would never vote for a Mormon either may have in fact helped elect a muslim.
It’s a sad state of affairs when the GOP is arguing about which liberal is the more conservative.
What nonsense. Obama was electable and HE has the Foreign Policy credentials? What matters is winning elections.
I believe Bobby Jindal is part of the future, too.
Actually, it’s more important to argue over who has the best hair. /s Personally I would pick Palin.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.