Posted on 12/09/2007 4:55:31 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
single issue voters were going to be the death of the Republican PartyYou are right.
Larry Kudlow interviewed Huckabee last Friday, and then discussed the interview with a panel of guests. Kudlow also made his regular Friday appearance on Hugh Hewitt’s show.
Conclusion: Huckabee is not a conservative, he is a populist and many of his views are compatible with Dem policy.
Links are here:
http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/blog/g/b9385a66-23c2-43d2-9c1b-7a723434c163
Neither guy’s ego will allow him to play 2nd fiddle to the other.
No more Clintons. No more Bush’s. No more presidents from Arkansas.
Morning, rodguy911 and everyone. Thanks AB and congrats to last weeks winners for their posts.
I will get the munchies out this morning and watch the fun.
I thought Romney’s speech on religion was great and very misreported or interpreted by most everyone with a dog in the fight. Like Rush, I thought it was fantastic and well timed. It amazes me nobody seems to think it’s important to ask religious questions to other candidates in either party. Although I’m sure Hillary would say she’s very religious (wink-wink) and the media would buy it.
I’m saying that in December of 2004 Gov Dean was set to win Iowa, and he actually came in third.
We do not have a clear picture of what the people who will actually show up at the caucuses on Jan 3 will do, just by relying on polls.
| PROGRAM |
VIEWERS |
CHG |
|---|---|---|
| NBC MEET THE PRESS |
4,390,000 |
+338,000 |
| CBS FACE THE NATION |
2,562,000 |
+206,000 |
| ABC THIS WEEK |
2,905,000 |
+250,000 |
| FOX NEWS SUNDAY |
2,015,000 |
-241,000 |
| CNN LATE EDITION |
476,000 |
-101,000 |
As recently as 30 (and even 20) years ago Huckabee would’ve been the perfect southern Democrat.
Big government anti-abortion nanny staters.
Precisely, and it is a shame that too many “middle” Americans are now looking to nanny government to take care of every need.
It bodes very poorly for a conservative future in the USA.
I think Huckabee is surging simply because he is the only one the Pro Lifers trust. There seems to be a three way civil war going on here in the Republican Party. The Republican Establishment vrs the Libertarian-Small Govt Conservatrives vrs the Social Conservatives.
Both the Small Govt crowd and the Establishment have taken the Social Conservatives for granted. I think they are about to get a really big surprise about just how much weight the "value voters" can add to a candidate's campaign. It going to get really ugly here for us. None of the sides involved here have any notion on how to compromise with the others.
It bodes poorly for any kind of future for the US.
###### AP's terrorist-cameraman, -> Bilal Hussein goes to Iraqi judiciary system.
###### Fox Entertainment Group aquires Beliefnet. Beliefnet, the largest online faith and spirituality destination, will become part of Fox Digital Media.
###### Unworthy News for MSM! -> War is twice as popular as Congress.
###### Deep Job Cuts @ San Diego Union-Tribune -> Circulation has sharply declined echoing a nationwide trend.
###### The Real "W" -> Glenn Beck's off-the-record meeting with W. Beck left the White House stunned and awestruck with his sense of Bush's command of the situation. "He is clear and focused, and there are no hems and haws. I would not want to sit across the table from him as an enemy. He said a few things that were breathtaking, and my immediate response was, 'Why are you not saying this?' and he explained. I can't quote him. All I can say is that he has Abraham Lincoln-honorable reasons ... he has chosen not to say certain things. But (the Iraq war) is going much better than people think."
###### Treason, Plagiarism and Wash.Post! -> Dana Priest in particular.
###### Rush, Clear Channel & Romney! -> Bain Capital to aquire Clear Channel! (Romney is the founder of Bain Capital).
###### McClatchy, Scripps Predict '08 Sales Decline -> they cite housing slump as reason, R E A L L Y.
###### Under-Reported / UnReported by MSM -> democrat governor in real estate scandal & Ex-Broward County Sherrif (D) sent to Prison.
###### Matthew Dowd became Maureen Dowd, so now he is also ABC News CON-tributor.
###### AP(!): Democrats Cry Uncle on Taxes, Spending. Cracks are emerging in congressional Democrats' solidarity, as frustrated lawmakers concede their majority status is not enough to overcome Republican resistance on taxes, spending, Iraq and a host of other issues.
###### Another Hllary-Plant -> Sneaks Under MSM Radar! And there 's one (from John Podesta's CAP) on Brit Hume's show too thro' Kathryn Harridge as Iran analyst.
F W I W .........
*** Politico's Jim Vandehei's wife Hanna Vandehei was a former Tom Delay staffer.
*** AP's Nedra Pickler recently got married in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico to Eric Conner, Fox News cameraman.
*** Rove Visits Duke -> Some students in shock, others in awe.
*** Combat Medic -> Miss Utah Jill Stevens. There will be one military hero at the 2008 Miss America Pageant in January.
Huckabee wants more dialog with Iran as well... this gomer is nothing but a pro-life, Jimmy Carter.
In all of this, I always come back to the fact that we're preparing to hire the Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Armed Forces. Where the rubber meets the road and push comes to shove, the Commander-in-Chief is called upon to serve, quite frankly, as Chief Bringer of Death to America's Enemies. As I've learned more about Mike Huckabee, I've become increasingly convinced that this man, like Jhimmi Carter and B.J. Clinton before him, just doesn't appear to have the stomach for the less polite aspects of this particular job.
This is pretty much my take on Huckabee.
You are correct. I guess I just saw the two scenarios as identical. :^)
Mine, & a lot of my friends', too.
From the article:
For more than an hour, the bipartisan group, which included current House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), was given a virtual tour of the CIA's overseas detention sites and the harsh techniques interrogators had devised to try to make their prisoners talk.
Among the techniques described, said two officials present, was waterboarding, a practice that years later would be condemned as torture by Democrats and some Republicans on Capitol Hill. But on that day, no objections were raised. Instead, at least two lawmakers in the room asked the CIA to push harder, two U.S. officials said.
THe MSM will elevate then delight in destroying Huck thus blackening the collective eyes of the pubs. Hill would love to take on Huck. As she talks of her great religious faith, he will try to outdo her and come across as a loon.
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