Posted on 12/15/2013 4:46:32 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Former Arkansas Governor and Fox News Channel host Mike Huckabee weighed in on the escalating feud between establishment Republican politicians and conservative activist groups on Saturday. Asked for his thoughts on House Speaker John Boehner’s (R-OH) admonition of the idealized purism advocated by some outside groups, Huckabee sympathized with Boehner saying that governing is more difficult than activism and “politics is not theology.”
Huckabee began by saying that Boehner was not scolding the tea party movement but conservative groups that capitalize on that movement. He added that some of those groups appear to have an “all or nothing mindset” and that this mentality more often results in getting “nothing.”
“When the movement becomes, sort of, focused in a handful of groups that are raising funds to attack Republicans and the criteria for being attacked is the difference you might have in the tactic of the party, not the philosophy of the party, I think that is what Boehner and the others are really reacting to,” Huckabee continued.
“Governing is tough,” he continued. “Politics is not theology. It’s easy to be pure when you are talking about theology.”
Watch the clip below via Fox News Channel:
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If the party leaders fought this hard to preserve traditional American values and protect the Constitution -- as they were elected and promised to do -- the in-fighting would stop. Doesn't the emotionally-charged Johnny B realize that without the conservative base we'll lose the House, he'll lose his speakership (if not his job!), and the Democrat Socialists will have complete rule over Americans for the last two years of the petty tyrant's reign? I've concluded that Johnny B is not an idiot as so many are now saying ... he's a fool.
So true…and if it were not for the Contract With America conservatives of 1994, we wouldn't have had the House from 95 thru 2006 either. Ironcially, Boehner was part of that CWA take over in 94 mid terms….and the beneficiary of the 2010 TP mid terms….and he's fighting the very forces that made both of those possible……SO DAMNED MADDENING!!!
Notice how fat and slovenly he is looking... been feeding at the trough a little too long.
Answer that question, and you will understand why the time has come for a little old time fire and brimstone religion on spending restraint.
The MSM made the same accusations about Ronald Reagan, and he is literally the only political figure in the last eighty years who succeeded in pushing the pendulum a little bit back toward the Right...for a while.
Status quo Republidems.
They like their position and power. Win or lose the majority, they still get their turn at the money troughs. They are content with that.
I have said before that when the democrats hate you, the republicans hate you, the media hates you, Wall Street hates you, the TBTF banks hate you, the Unions hate you and the IRS is after you.......
We must be on the right track!
Every single one of these pigs are at the trough stealing our money and living large on our children's patrimony.
F'em all!
You better wake up Mayberry, liberalism is a theology and winning.
Pray America is Waking
“We must be on the right track!”
Seems more like the left track to me. Elections due in 2014, IRS abuses, Benghazi tragedy, Obamacare disaster, Middle East quagmire and Republican leadership running around like a chicken with it’s head chopped off!
He must love the Senate compromise on Obamacare or, hey Mike, how about that great example of bipartisanship on the nuclear option?
I’ve always been suspicious of Huckabee...
Never knew why... seemed fake, and I couldn’t put my finger on it.
This answers it.
I never liked Huckabee from day one. Not surprised by this, and who listens to him anyway?
I didn’t say you were, but the argument was made by others that were that Evangelicals could lay claim to the mantle of political conservativism simply by virtue of their religious beliefs. The theology was held up as the definitive litmus test of what it meant to be conservative.
I want to see him scold Ted Cruz.
“So, Huck has gone RINO”
I lke Huck personally but he was always RINO.
I am sure the loyalists sounded just like this in 1775.
FOX turns to Huck for a fair-and-balanced analysis of Boner’s (GOPe) attack on the Tea Party. I’m shocked at his defense of Boner (GOPe). Shocked, I tell you.
They like their position and power. Win or lose the majority, they still get their turn at the money troughs. They are content with that.
100% true…and FTR, check American Thinker tomorrow morning for an article on how to address this problem. It is ahead of the curve and ground breaking.
That's because you have good internal instincts and radar…..and I hope your radar has made the same sounds when Ricky Santuckabee appears on your screen as well……same thing, different sweater vest is all…..
Do you ever get shoulder cramps patting yourself on the back?
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