Huck isn’t beyond criticism, but calling him Huckleberry, Gomer Pyle, Huckster etc. is childish and indicative of a prejudice against southern culture.
Fred and Huck’s STATED positions are almost identical. Criticisms of Huck are based on his past and not on his platform. Please go to his site and then criticize his positions.
I am not saying that Fred is acting conservative, just that he is acting like a Southern Christian and people are more comfortable with faux Christians than real ones. Fred is a Hollywood facsimile.
You are mking this up slander entirely out of your own prejudices. It really reflects rather badly on your own credibility.
When did his positions change and why?
Fred's positions have remained constant throughout his political career. He doesn't have to twist word meaings or try to redefine conservatism to fit his platform.
...just that he is acting like a Southern Christian and people are more comfortable with faux Christians than real ones. Fred is a Hollywood facsimile.
That's an interesting thing to say considering one of the slams against Thompson is that he doesn't go to church often enough. If Fred were putting on a faux Christian costume, it would have been easy for his to start carrying a Bible and showing up at church every Sunday. He didn't do that because that's not how he lived his life prior to starting the campaign. If he'd suddenly altered his routine to include church on Sunday, you'd have better luck making the case.
There's a huge problem here. Fred has been a consistant conservative. That can hardly be said for Huckabee. There is nothing conservative about jacking up taxes, supporting socialized medicine (see SCHIP), joining the Global Warming© alarmists, calling for the shutdown of military detainment centers for terrorists, and rattling off propoganda that could seriously pass off as a discounted MoveOn.org ad in the NYTimes.
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ROFLMAO
Nice to know that we Southern Christians are not real Christin material.
You might want to get down on your knees and ask God just how (FAUX) we Southerners are in how we treat our commitment to God and country.
If you have any smarts you would ask half of FR to forgive you for such an inane offending statement.
I think you have the wrong person who's acting like a Southern Christian. Fred has stated strongly that though he is a Christian, and a believer, he's not bringing that up in the race, because that's a private matter, and he won't pander to the voters in that way. To me, that's a breath of fresh air!
As far as the variations on Huckabee's name, there are folks here who've done that, but it wasn't Fred.
What Huckabee STATES and what he has DONE are sometimes different things. Since we have certainty about his actions, I think that’s what most folks would assume he would DO again, no matter what he says to try to get elected.
Yes, it is his past that keeps me from voting for Huckabee, not his new election platform. When I look at the “pasts” of Guiliani, Romney, McCain, Thompson, and Huckabee, it is Fred Thompson who comes out the same then as he is now. Always conservative, no flip-flops, no backtracking on what he has said previously. That is why Fred Thompson has received the endorsements he has, his real conservative record. GO FRED!
Merry Christmas and a blessed new year to you and to all on FR!
Fred and Huck’s STATED positions are almost identical. Criticisms of Huck are based on his past and not on his platform. Please go to his site and then criticize his positions.
I am not saying that Fred is acting conservative, just that he is acting like a Southern Christian and people are more comfortable with faux Christians than real ones. Fred is a Hollywood facsimile.
A few of my thoughts to Mike Huckabee and Fred Thomspon on this subject:
I have seen Fred Thompson respond to questions about his own Christianity with the response that it is a personal relationship with God. He responds matter of factly and refrains from sermonizing. Mike Huckabee seems to always use his 'Christianity' to further his personal goals. I find that condescending towards Christians that he feels they can be so easily manipulated.
I grew up watching hypocritically pious men and women act much like Mike Huckabee is in this campaign. I grew up to loathe these kinds of people. Every time Mike Huckabee or his team put something out in the campaign, my feelings for him and the kind of man that he appears to be go lower.