Posted on 02/11/2008 1:32:10 PM PST by gpapa
I believe that the voters in this Republican nomination contest—here in Virginia and across the country—deserve a real choice. And Governor Huckabee is clearly the conservative alternative. He is the best choice, and he is my choice. So I am voting for him on Tuesday, here in Virginia.
I don’t buy the idea that John McCain is a true conservative. Nor do I buy the idea that Mike Huckabee should get out of this contest. The people in the Potomac area—Virginia, Maryland, and the District of Columbia. In addition, we have many important states coming up, including my home state of Wisconsin. Folks in all those states deserve a choice a real choice.
I had been a supporter of Mitt Romney, but now I am very glad that Governor Huckabee has decided to stay in the race. I appreciate that he is staying in, just as I appreciate that Governor Huckabee and Senator McCain are not going at each other’s throats—a vigorous debate about important issues is the healthiest thing possible for the Republican Party.
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"Hasbeen" is a more apt description.
Great News!
Go Huckabee - It’s on to Texas.
http://godandculture.wordpress.com/2008/02/11/huck-plays-air-hockey-with-colbert/
Great News!
Go Huckabee - It’s on to Texas.
http://godandculture.wordpress.com/2008/02/11/huck-plays-air-hockey-with-colbert/
That’s great news. I’m glad that Paul and supports the same candidate as Jim Gilcrist and Dr. Dobson.
Why? Because he wouldn’t support a mentally unstable grandstanding liberal?
There has been a lot of talk about how the Reagan Revolution was the uniting of cultural conservatives with fiscal conservatives - the coalition of evangelical values voters and country club tax cut advocates.
Lately there has been talk that either the GOP is turning its back on values voters or that they are turning their backs on the GOP.
However, neither McCain nor Huckabee is a fiscal conservative. Huckabee is, however, a cultural conservative.
Of the four remaining presidential contenders in either party, not one is a fiscal conservative.
Overall, voter turnout has been going up and up, while third party votes have been going down and down.
So more Americans than ever are voting and more Americans than ever, as a percentage, are voting for one of the two major parties.
Where did these ignored conservatives go?
What? Not McCain, that paragon of conservatism?
Hasn’t Weyrich been listening: The Party Leadership and Wall Street Journal are sure McCain is the Man Of The Hour!
moderates do have a much better chance at winning than liberals or conservatives
Let me tell you how funny this is. Planned Parenthood is running radio ads in Virginia urging Republican primary voters to vote against McCain, because McCain is pro-life. My head is spinning.
mccain is a fiscal conservative unless you think a fiscal conservative means someone who likes to blow up with the deficit
yeah so they’ll vote for huckabee
not sure what they were trying to do
“No thanks, Huckabee is even further down my preference list than McCain. I may just write in Fred’s name in the primary.”
Dittos on that thought.
If you can’t vote McCain, dont vote McCain, but Huckster is even worse...
At some point, we should put a wrap on it and come together for the party ...
Do we want 4 years of Obama/Clinton/Carter type foreign policy at a time of war? Do we want Obama/Clinton/Carter type domestic policy at a time when the economy is shaky? Do we want their cultural leftism at a time when our culture is under attack?
The same McCain who has a 96% rating from NARAL???? He’s certainly a lot less pro-life than any other Republican left in the race. Unless, of course, they are already assuming he’s the candidate and are sort of jumping the gun on their general election ads...
Please post a new response that makes sense.
But one of the only things McCain has going for him is that he is a fiscal conservative. He's not a supply sider, and he was against the Bush tax cuts, but he has always tried to hold spending down.
A Hoover Republican?
:-)
He may be on your ballot already. He was in California’s even though he had dropped out.
Good! I’m glad at least somebody doesn’t believe the hype.
I was disappointed to see that Jeb Bush just endorsed McCain, although I wasn’t that surprised, considering that he had also endorsed Crist against more conservative Florida gubernatorial candidates (although to be fair, I will say that those candidates probably had less chance of winning the general election because they were not as well known state-wide). It sure is interesting to see who people are endorsing!
“However, neither McCain nor Huckabee is a fiscal conservative. “
McCain has been good on earmarks spending and voted against the prescription drug plan bill. McCain is better than Huckster on that.
What would be more accurate to say is this: Huckster is a proven tax-and-spender based on his tax hikes as governor. McCain has shown he doesnt get supply-side economics much, based on his arguments against the Bush tax cuts of 2003.
He may be on your ballot already. He was on California’s even though he had dropped out.
Some shipments of McKoolAid have been intercepted, and have not reached their intended destinations.
“The same McCain who has a 96% rating from NARAL???? He’s certainly a lot less pro-life than any other Republican left in the race.”
WRONG. He has 0% from NARAL and near 100% from *prolife* groups.
McCain is RINO on multiple issues, but he has been a prolife voter.
What a mess.
You are wrong about his NARAL rating. It is 0. They hate his guts.
“yeah so they’ll vote for huckabee
not sure what they were trying to do”
It’s pretty obvious:
McCain is electable,
Huckabee is not.
Vote for the Huckster to stop Mccain, so
Obama can win and put extreme pro-aborts on SCOTUS, thus
keeping the abortion mills open.
However, he did vote to fund embryonic stem cell research - a move which was both culturally and fiscally liberal.
“What a mess.”
It’s been a ClusterHuck ever since Huckabee beat Romney in Iowa!
Romney would have made a great nominee ... oh well. I am at this point, more comfortable with John McCain than Huck.
Given a choice between 2 RINOs, I prefer the one who can win.
never heard of him, some icon
never heard of him, some icon
ok
McCain wants to cut the budget, reform entitlements, end corporate welfare and protectionism and overhaul the tax code.
He fought 2002’s $180 billion farm bailout, 2003’s $558 billion Medicare drug entitlement, and 2005’s $286.4 billion highway bill, which contained 6,371 earmarks worth $24 billion.
That’s a fiscal conservative.
Bush on the other hand, busted the budget and the deficit. Social security and medicare will go broke and he has done nothing about it
McCain voted no on the prescrition drug plan in 2000. But he vote yes on funding the GOP version of Medicare prescription drug benefit in 2001.
Yup. McCain beats Huckster on my list, although I won’t vote for either, and I wrote in FRed in my primary. It felt great to vote FOR someone for once. :)
Correction: I didn’t have to write FRed in, he was on my ballot.
Weyrich and Ed Feulner founded the Heritage Foundation.
Huckabee is a cutural conservative who doen’t mind pardoning vicious criminals to prey on society. He pardoned more criminals than Bill Clinton did as Gov. of AR. Some very nasty characters too. We have no true conservative in this race.
Fred supports McCain ..... just as he did in 2000. Fred was all talk, no go. He helped ram McCain Feingold through the Senate.
yeah but the idea is to vote for someone who is actually running
Look - Huckabee is at least a social conservative and an unafraid protector of the 2nd amendment. As for balancing budgets, he did that very well in AR.
What is this vitriol against Huckabee from some in the Republican party?
Its McDole.
yeah I just couldn’t understand that. I would think a real social conservative would be very tough on crime.
He is a strong supporter of the 2nd amendment so maybe he’s hoping you would shoot the people he pardoned.
I voted for huckabee. but I just wish he was better
“What is this vitriol against Huckabee from some in the Republican party?”
He’s a dreadful candidate, is all.
“Huckabee, I came close to supporting him, and if we were running for some sort of religious organization, I would support him, but we’re not. He has compromised on so many conservative issues, I simply can’t be for him. Every time you turn around, he’s taking the wrong stand on a different issue.” ~~Paul Weyrich, when explaining his Romney endorsement——————————
Now he does this about face and supports Huckabee?
No conservative is a hasbeen.
Apparently, according to him, McCain is worse. I think it is a tie.
LOL! he's been in Congress for 25 years. He's been in a position to do more than "want" for the past quarter century.
2003’s $558 billion Medicare drug entitlement
Your math is making aboust as much sense as your previous post. 2008's total proposed Medicare outlay is 386B.
Yet you are claiming that 2003 saw 558B in Medicare drug benefits alone.
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