Posted on 12/15/2007 12:32:38 PM PST by FocusNexus
Mitt Romney stepped up his attacks on GOP rival Mike Huckabee on Saturday, saying his statements that the Bush administration's policies overseas demonstrate an "arrogant bunker mentality" sound like they're coming from a Democrat.
Huckabee wrote the comments in the January-February issue of the journal Foreign Affairs, where he said President Bush's approach has been "counterproductive" and urged a shift in diplomatic tone.
"I had to look again," Romney said in Humboldt, Iowa. "I said, 'Did this come from Barack Obama? Or from Hillary Clinton? Did it come from John Edwards?' No. It was one of our own. It was Gov. Huckabee.
"He said the Bush administration is guilty of an 'arrogant bunker mentality' that has been counterproductive here and abroad. I simply can't believe that. I can't believe he'd say that. I'm afraid he's running for the wrong party. The truth of the matter is this president's kept us safe these last six years."
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I see no problem with Tomson & Hunter. I like the real world
SUCCESSFUL business experience of Romney which neither
McCain
Thompson,
Huckabee,
Giuliani,
have.
But I can guarantee a republican vote come November no matter
who is nominated.
When people come to this country, they shouldn't fear. They shouldn't live in hiding. They ought to have their heads up, because the one thing about being an American is, we believe every person ought to have his or her head up and proud, and nobody should have to be in hiding because they're illegal when our government ought to make it so that people can reasonably come here in a legal fashion.
Got that? People who broke into the country shouldn't live in fear, they should be proud of their lawbreaking arrogance and be rewarded.
That's even worse than what he said about Bush.
I hope you're not hunting chickadees. Shooting them is illegal almost everywhere. LOL Furthermore, I can't imagine that they have much meat to them.
“We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support. Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates wouldn’t make any sense at all.”
~~~ Ronald Reagan, 1965
“Join me in a dream of a California whose government isn't characterized by political hacks and cronies and relatives--an administration that doesn't make its decisions based on political expediency but on moral truth. Together, let us find men to match our mountains.”
~~~ Ronald Reagan, 1966
“A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency, or simply to swell its numbers.
I do not believe I have proposed anything that is contrary to what has been considered Republican principle. It is at the same time the very basis of conservatism. It is time to reassert that principle and raise it to full view. And if there are those who cannot subscribe to these principles, then let them go their way.”
~~~ Ronald Reagan, March 1, 1975
“Let us lay to rest, once and for all, the myth of a small group of ideological purists trying to capture a majority. Replace it with the reality of a majority trying to assert its rights against the tyranny of powerful academics, fashionable left-revolutionaries, some economic illiterates who happen to hold elective office and the social engineers who dominate the dialogue and set the format in political and social affairs.
If there is any ideological fanaticism in American political life, it is to be found among the enemies of freedom on the left or right — those who would sacrifice principle to theory, those who worship only the god of political, social and economic abstractions, ignoring the realities of everyday life. They are not conservatives.”
~~~ Ronald Reagan: Speech at the 4th Annual CPAC Convention: A New Republican Party, February 6, 1977
There was a time when Reagan was definitely not pro-life. I have the CD collection of his radio broadcasts, and one of them addresses abortion. Becoming pro-life was a process for him, and there was definitely a time in his political career when he could have been described as pro-choice in that he hadn’t taken a pro-life position.
BULL! See post #82.
I haven't decided where I stand with Romney yet. I kind of like Thompson, and I could put up with Giuliani (but not my first choice). I like Tancredo, but I don't think he can get the nomination, and I like what I know (so far) about Hunter, but I don't hear much of him lately, so I doubt he'll go the distance.
I’ve been keeping quiet and watching the candidates, waiting to make up my mind.
Huckabee is the first one I’ll honestly say I don’t care to vote for. Those who have said he reminds them of Jimmy Carter are dead-on.
I think Huckabee’s comments are enough to exclude him from all future debates.
Stick to backing conservatives like Thompson, Tancredo and Hunter.
Stay away from liberals like Giuliani and Romney. Stay away from the Huckster too.
Ronald Reagan came late to the pro-life cause. that fact does not in any way diminish his legacy. All candidates are human. They make mistakes. I think Mr. Romney is worthy of a second chance on abortion. That said, I do prefer Mr. Thompson.
i (hate) huckabees
I am signing off.
God save us from Hillobama.
BULL!
Reagan never supported Roe v Wade or abortion on demand.
Romney supported Roe v Wade and abortion on demand for 35 years. Up until he decided he would run for POTUS. That is called political expediency. Something Reagan frowned on throughout his poliitcal career.
yep. this finishes him off for me. I just never took a liking to him, and this seals it.
GO FRED!
He says it was a process of understanding more about what abortion is and does. I’m not attacking Reagan. sheesh.
I'm still leaning toward the three you mentioned. I wish Tancredo would do better as he has been right on the border issue since way back, and not afraid to say it.
>>>>>This thread has turned toxic. I am signing off.
Adios, whiner!
I hope you are right. My fear is that the Huckster is another Jimmy Carter who was a Marxist dressed up like a peanut farmer and who fooled the majority of the American public for the better part of the 4 miserable years that he was in office.
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