Posted on 01/28/2008 8:39:45 AM PST by TSchmereL
Why would Rush support Huckabee? He is not a principled conservative.
Not only is Huckabee not a conservative, he is guaranteed to lose.
Again, you miss the point. It is not about the candidate or even winning the election. It is about Conservatism.
Romney is not worse, you just don’t trust him. I don’t either really and I am not sure Rush does either, that is why he will not endorse him. But what is the point of undermining Romney? It serves no purpose when Romney is at least saying the right thing.
Just to be plain and simple about it, Huckabee is the gooniest goof-ball I have ever seen. The drive-bys will make a caricature out if him all year long until half of America laughs out loud at the mention of his name in November.
Huckabee will be caricatured as a fried squirrel-eating, red-neck Baptist Bible-thumper with all the intelligence of a greeter at WalMart! And Huckabee will help them do it!
You give Rush way too much credit for having influence over how people vote in the primary.
Rush has some influence over his loyal listeners to some extent, but it is not significant enough to change the outcome of a statewide primary, much less a national election.
All Rush can do is stand for Conservative principals and then pick up the pieces when Conservative principals are discarded for Liberal ones which result in economic and social misery.
Rush is not a king maker. He is just a Conservative commentator.
Thanks for thinking of me, Pookie! Late Arriving Jersey Pings!
I never said Rush should support Huckabee. I just asked why Rush would trash Huckabee and McCain and not trash Romney.
Again, you miss the point. It is not about the candidate or even winning the election. It is about Conservatism.
It is you who miss the point. Why trash any of the candidates? Why not just talk about conservative principles? Ask yourself the question, why isn't he comparing all of the candidates to a set of conservative standards? There is a reason. Maybe you can supply an answer.
Romney is not worse, you just don’t trust him. I don’t either really and I am not sure Rush does either, that is why he will not endorse him. But what is the point of undermining Romney? It serves no purpose when Romney is at least saying the right thing.
This statement supplies part of the answer. Trust must be earned. Maybe Rush should say that Romney can't be trusted while he is trashing everyone else. But there is more to the total answer.
Don't like people from fly-over country, huh.
Take a look at this. The drive-bys would beat Willard like a rented mule.
Yes, He was a good conservative commentator for a long time. A conservative commentator trades on his credibility. Sadly, he has lost that credibility.
I live in a medium size town in Tennessee. I live and work closely, daily, with the countriest folk you have every seen. I have plenty of respect for common people. I also know what the rest of the country thinks of them. And Huckabee is ready-made caricature of it.
I don’t need to click your link to know that the drive-bys would beat Mitt Romney like a rented mule. I don’t even think that Romney has as good a chance as McCain in the general election.
But it is going to be McCain and that has been fairly clear for some time now.
I also know that the drive-bys are going to eventually start deserting McCain and I think McCain will also lose. I think Rush knows it too.
You are disappointed because Rush did not throw his weight behind Duncan Hunter. Then Duncan Hunter endorsed Huckabee, and now you are for him.
And you think George W. Bush selected Mitt Romney and told Rush to obey.
I had not heard this theory before. I have some doubts.
I find it interesting that neither you, nor I, nor Rush, wanted McCain.
And neither you, nor I, nor Rush, had any really good ideas about how to stop him.
We are all just spitting in the wind, you might say.
And the damnedest part about it is that in the end, it probably will not matter much, because McCain will most likely lose.
I watched this video.
This video illustrates the reasons you don’t trust Mitt Romney.
I really don’t see the drive-bys using this material to present Mitt Romney unfavorably.
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