Posted on 10/12/2008 5:26:15 PM PDT by DocT111
I can’t take the huckster.
Schmuckabee may talk the conservative talk, but he didn't walk the walk when he was governor. -- His track record in office was that of a Liberal. The man is a flim flam man, a con artist.
Huck would have been as bad or worse a candidate than we have in McCain, and he would have lost (and he would NOT have chosen Palin VP
he brought up 2 points during the debates that none of the others brought up. He said sarbanes oxley was a disaster and the Keynesian stimulus rebate, which would just end up going to China, would do nothing for the economy.
He is also a consistent supply sider. He cut capital gains and wants to abolish the income tax. No tax on capital and productivity. None of the other candidates had the guts to cut the top rate, let alone eliminate it.
Ron Paul actually had a very weak tax plan.
“Honestly....yeah, I’ll just go ahead and eat crow and say it.....I wish he were our nominee.”
Same here, I think he would be way ahead at this point.
OTOH, My friends here in Arkansas tell me his show isn't worth what they're paying him. I think watching once was enough for most of them.
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Just was just watching his show with Chuck Norris. I’m going to buy Chuck’s book, “Black Belt Patriotism”.
that’s not really true. How do you think he won michigan? he promised to bail them out. He wanted the govt to bail out the Winter Olympics. He was for Commonwealth Care and the stimulus tax rebate that went to people who didn’t pay taxes. And this was the same romney who was against Steve Forbes and his flat tax in 1996.
“I agree with you. I’ll never forgive what he did to Mitt Romnmey.”
I too was for Romney, couldn’t quite understand the whole anti-Morman thing (from a large part of the party, not just Huck), that said Romney lost.
I had (have) concerns about McCain & Huck but I think McCain just isn’t taking the fight to Obama, too much is being held back, I’m not sure if Huck would sit back and take it.
Mr. Huckabee, it appears that Barack Obama is going to win the election and it can be attributed directly to YOU. Why? Because of your religious bigotry a few months ago against Mitt Romney! You, like Democrat Bill Richardson, were not running for President, as there was no way in the world that you even had a chance. It was just an ego thing. You were running for VICE President and needed to get Romney out of the way because you knew he would not consider you to be his running mate. You figured (wrongly and thankfully) that John McCain would give you consideration if he got the nomination. Therefore, you made the decision to slander Romney with that Jesus / devil question. You, Mr. Huckabee, have a bachelor's in Religion and also attended a theological seminary, so you knew your comment was way out of line. You learned in World Religion 101 what the Mormon religion's teaching were. And, it is not "that Jesus and the devil are brothers". You knew how Evangelicals would take your comment, as the everyday person doesn't know a lot about Mormans. They just assumed you knew what you were talking about, since you are an ordained Baptist minister. (By the way, I'm a practicing Roman Catholic.) The day before your knowingly false statement, Romney was leading the pack, but the following day, he started going downhill. He had to drop out because of your intentional falsehoods and RELIGIOUS BIGOTRY.
Had you not done what you did, I'm sure Mitt Romney would have been debating Obama Tuesday night, not John McCain. And, another thing; Romney would have a good 35% lead over Obama right now instead of Obama with a (+)7%. Romney would have cleaned his clock.
McCain would make a good President, but without Sarah Palin, he would now be DOWN about 40%. Sarah is great and is keeping his head above water, BUT, McCain cannot win by continuing his routine campaign rhetoric of "I'm a maverick", "I can reach across the aisle" and starting every third sentence with "MY friend". This is politics, not a friendly game of golf. Obama and his henchmen know how to win. And, how to win over the mainstream media. Perhaps, Mr. Huckabee, John McCain should let you run his campaign until election day. Your slimy tactics would make Obama and his team of bagmen look like mere children.
With all that said, Governor, I would like for you to consider doing the following on the day after Obama wins the election: Call a national press conference, and, stand up and tell the American people that you're sorry for falsely slandering Mitt Romney and that it's YOUR fault that the United States is about to become a socialist, third world country.
JMAX
So now the Mitt haters are peddling the absurd notion that Huck and McCain are more conservative than McCain on economic policy. Spare me the nonsense, please.
Who had the Reagan economic vision and could sell it to the American people in a a general election campaign - Romney or McCain?
In order to enact any economic policy, you have to get elected first. McCain is proving that he cannot discuss economic issues with any certainty let alone passion.
It is sickening to think of what might have been right now with Mitt as our nominee. Anyone who denies this is living in fantasyland.
if romney was the nominee we’d win utah and idaho and a few other mountain states. That’s it.
My husband and I enjoyed it so much that we watched it both last night and tonight.
mitt was no reagan. he was basically yet another establishment Rockefeller Republican like his father. He couldn’t connect to the folks, the reagan democrats. Obama would have destroyed him as being the party of “the rich.”
Thanks for prompting me, Sparky. I've been meaning to "bullet-point" this:
- Frances Fox Piven and her husband, Richard A. Cloward authored the strategy themselves and in 1966, published it in The Nation. It was a sensation in the radical community. (It's been done by Marxists in other countries, but they get the credit, here.)
- Then they discovered how to balloon welfare in America, in the '70's and '80's. Rudy Giuliani cited them when he moved to save New York from its ensuing welfare bankruptcy.
- Cloward and Piven were also present when Pres. Clinton signed the Community Reinvestment Act extentions for massively mandating sub-prime loans upon private mortgage institutions.
- Piven also took part in the formation of ACORN, utilizing the same high-level organizers who pushed for the rapid expansion of the welfare roles, previously.
BTW, I have been in the thick of grassroots conservative and pro-life politics. If it weren't for our various organizations "conspiring" and assuming coordinated roles with goals and objectives in mind, things would be even worse in America.
History, it has been said, is the history of conspiracies.
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6967
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/09/barack_obama_and_the_strategy.html
http://www.newsmax.com/politics/obama_voter_fraud/2008/09/22/133091.html
Hope it's helpful. That's an understatement.
good post. I told anyone who would listen back in March last McCain was exactly the wrong candidate against either Hillary or BO because Mitt could have run against Washington. Like it or not, and notwithstanding his heroism and many attributes, McCain IS Washington and, worse, he certainly cannot connect with voters on TV.
It is a fact of political life that you have to be good on TV to win the presidency. It may be unfair, but it’s a given, especially for the GOP candidate, who has to speak over the MSM bias.
Praying for a miracle.
I don’t like Huckabee, so I won’t watch his show.
My, my, you sound like you have a bad case of acid indigestion. Here is some grandmotherly advice: Chew two Rolaids and take a little walk around your neighborhood before bedtime. :< }
The show reminds me of Hee-Haw.
Not my cup of tea.
No it sucks.
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