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Huckabee's Rise
Why it happened, what it means.
The Weekly Standard ^
| December 4, 2007
| Dean Barnett
Posted on 12/04/2007 5:09:12 PM PST by Clintonfatigued
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To: Travis McGee
So you believe that Huckabee’s present stance on illegal immigration is a fraud? That he is indeed an open border, let them come as they please, no restraint, candidate and that his send um home, build the fence, prosecute um stance as found on his website is a ruse?
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posted on
12/04/2007 6:12:39 PM PST
by
topfile
To: Clintonfatigued
Huckster is from Arkansas. Enough said.
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posted on
12/04/2007 6:24:05 PM PST
by
HighlyOpinionated
(http://auntiecoosa.blogspot.com -- read, learn, blog, or get out of my way.)
To: SkyPilot
Knock if off with the spamming of those images or face suspension!
To: Clintonfatigued
what does it mean? it means the Rockefellers have a *lot* of money, and a *lot* of influence, and now have two horses in this race, one male and one female.
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posted on
12/04/2007 6:34:04 PM PST
by
chilepepper
(The map is not the territory -- Alfred Korzybski)
To: E. Cartman
Thompson and Hunter are the real conservatives (Tancredo's a Johnny one-note), Giuliani's an emotional favorite, Romney's the Manchurian Republican and Huckabee's just downright scary.
Huckabee scares me more than Ron Paul -- I'm not exaggerating. That he's doing so well in the polls is terrifying.
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posted on
12/04/2007 6:40:33 PM PST
by
BfloGuy
(It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we can expect . . .)
To: Clintonfatigued
Now, the shoe's on the other foot. With Huckabee ascending, there's a chance that other wings of the Republican party will have to settle for a nominee who's not altogether satisfactory. Personally, I don't much like the populism shtick. I've seen no indication that Huckabee has a mastery of our perilous geopolitical situation. I would also be more comfortable with a candidate whose résumé isn't inferior to Bill Clinton's. A big chunk of the party will support Huckabee only because he's preferable to the Democratic candidate. That's not a recipe for a smashing turnout, and not indicative of an altogether healthy party. Huckabee: the enigma. This is a guy who I don't have much common ground with at all. He's pro-life, and I am with him there. Strangely, he's also pro immigrant, which I find refreshing because I don't fear them nor buy into the "bad for America" demagoguery. I think that he would appoint good Justices for the SC but I would be concerned about their ability to decide cases that involve commerce.
So, there's nothing left for me to do if he becomes the nominee other than to hold my nose tightly. If he's the guy, he's the last line of defense in the path of future legislation passed by a run-away and Democrat controlled congress. Yes, I'll be holding the nose tightly.
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posted on
12/04/2007 7:00:55 PM PST
by
LowCountryJoe
(I'm a Paleo-liberal: I believe in freedom; am socially independent and a borderline fiscal anarchist)
To: Clintonfatigued
Huckabee's Rise Why it happened,
we weren't buying into Ron Paul what it means
not much.
Huckster stands for Government deciding health issues, higher taxes and amnesty for illegals. He will not get the nomination.
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posted on
12/04/2007 7:01:12 PM PST
by
infidel29
(Voting for Paul? Might as well make it Ru Paul, he's got better legs.)
To: Admin Moderator
Thanks. I was dithering about whether that was just a poor attempt to be funny or constituted an attack on someone’s religion.
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posted on
12/04/2007 7:04:41 PM PST
by
patriciaruth
(http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1562436/posts)
To: topfile
Fred Thompson should meet your needs as well as those of fiscal conservatives. He’s the best consensus candidate we’ve got.
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posted on
12/04/2007 7:06:16 PM PST
by
RockinRight
(Rumors of Fred Thompson's death have been greatly exaggerated.)
To: RockinRight
To: topfile
Fiscal conservatives always get dumped on. No one seems to want to limit government intrusion into some area area of economics that was previously reserved to the individual. Economic liberty is out and rank populism is in.
Do you fiscal conservatives feel the same?
No, we feel worse but yet cling to every bit of optimistic news that can be scrounged from a society that embraces the negative.
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posted on
12/04/2007 7:12:17 PM PST
by
LowCountryJoe
(I'm a Paleo-liberal: I believe in freedom; am socially independent and a borderline fiscal anarchist)
To: Strategerist
Free trade is a pillar of convservatism. Ever read what Karl Marx said about free trade?
To: RockinRight
Sure I agree, But Fred is having a tough time getting traction. Feuding with Dobson certainly didn’t help.
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posted on
12/04/2007 7:35:07 PM PST
by
topfile
To: topfile
Dobson jumped the gun and said something he shouldn’t have, and Fred felt insulted.
I don’t think either of them meant it but it happened.
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posted on
12/04/2007 7:36:58 PM PST
by
RockinRight
(Rumors of Fred Thompson's death have been greatly exaggerated.)
To: Clintonfatigued
Huck can raise money from the last untapped resource this election year, the religious right. The MSM knows this, and is boosting him to grab that cash, which they know will be spent on them.
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posted on
12/04/2007 7:37:04 PM PST
by
hunter112
(Hillary Clinton - America’s Ex-Wife®)
To: infidel29
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posted on
12/04/2007 7:39:25 PM PST
by
Eric Blair 2084
(Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms shouldn't be a federal agency...it should be a convenience store.)
To: RockinRight
I was watching that and if you review the tapes, you’ll see someone in the middle the cheering Fred and Dobson on......Hannity!
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posted on
12/04/2007 7:40:26 PM PST
by
topfile
To: Clintonfatigued
To: topfile
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posted on
12/04/2007 7:41:10 PM PST
by
RockinRight
(Rumors of Fred Thompson's death have been greatly exaggerated.)
To: topfile
I just watched the youtube video.
The fact is, Dobson is one of those guys that’s so fixated on the social aspect of conservatism, that he fails to acknowledge the Constitutional boundaries that we have to adhere to. Or, SHOULD adhere to.
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posted on
12/04/2007 7:46:12 PM PST
by
RockinRight
(Rumors of Fred Thompson's death have been greatly exaggerated.)
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