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Las Vegas Review-Journal ^ | Nov. 23, 2008 | John Brummett

Posted on 11/23/2008 6:02:47 PM PST by redk

People wonder why Mike Huckabee would come out with a book that violates Ronald Reagan's 11th Commandment, which is not to criticize another Republican, and trashes the wholly deserving Mitt Romney.

Is it that Huckabee wants to get Romney out of the way so that he can emerge pre-emptively as the GOP alternative to Sarah Palin in 2012?

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To: muawiyah

No kidding. They’ve started to sound like homosexuals, black reperationists and amnesty supporters all rolled into one. Poor poor Mitt and his downtrodden supporters.


21 posted on 11/23/2008 6:40:38 PM PST by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade
Working against the grain and trying to be serious here, I think you're right. It was bad enuff when Dubya said IHS was his favorite philosopher.. (I don't think IHS was a philosopher, but it's okay; I knew what he meant.)

But someone who had actually spent part of his life acting on the premise that there just might possibly be a right and wrong that included something more than tolerance would be swimming upstream against a flood of media and academic bias.

22 posted on 11/23/2008 6:40:57 PM PST by Mad Dawg (Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.)
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To: csmusaret

Might not ring a bell with the Mormon Mitbots though ~ maybe more like the religious fellow in the Simpsons ~ Ned Flanders.


23 posted on 11/23/2008 6:42:10 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: redk

Huckabee reminds me of Lamar Alexander—a guy who made a career out of campaigning for President. No thanks.


24 posted on 11/23/2008 6:46:44 PM PST by rbg81 (DRAIN THE SWAMP!!)
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To: redk

Huckabee can forget about getting enough votes to be President. That family portrait of him and his two trouble-making sons doing their impression of Haystacks Calhoun...... yikes.


25 posted on 11/23/2008 7:00:44 PM PST by muleskinner
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To: sickoflibs

“”Lets have Sarah as maybe Senator to get some national experience.””

Yes, you’re so right - I like her, too, but she needs WAY more experience on several levels if she has presidential aspirations.

It’s horrible enough facing having BHO (gag) as president - lack of experience/ability, with values/motives detrimental/destructive for our country. The next time we conservatives/republicans have a real shot, it MUST be someone who is spot-on - really spot-on. That’s if there even exists an opportunity of ANY kind, because I worry all the time that this country won’t be the same (if at all) in four years under B. Hussein.


26 posted on 11/23/2008 7:13:10 PM PST by llandres (I'd rather be alive and bankrupt than dead and solvent)
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To: redk

Huckabee should go away. He has no chance in four years.


27 posted on 11/23/2008 7:38:35 PM PST by ElCid89 (Choose Substance)
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To: redk

Mike Huckabee is the first Presidential aspirant since George Wallace to be an open bigot. Huckabee’s bigotry is against Mormons. Huckabee could never be President of a country with laws against discrimination based upon race, religion or national origin.


28 posted on 11/23/2008 7:42:30 PM PST by svxdave (Life is too short to wear a fake Rolex.)
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To: sickoflibs

Since when did a senator get more experience than a governor? I believe that the job of President is in the executive branch like that of governor.Senators are too compromised as mcnutts sure as hell proved.


29 posted on 11/23/2008 7:42:50 PM PST by HANG THE EXPENSE (Defeat liberalism, its the right thing to do for America.)
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To: sickoflibs

“Lets have Sarah as maybe Senator to get some national experience.”


So governors should serve as senators now to prepare for a run for the chief executive office?
A senator may have won this election but I think that governor is still the best back ground and launching platform for a presidential run.


30 posted on 11/23/2008 7:46:52 PM PST by ansel12 ( When a conservative pundit mocks Wasilla, he's mocking conservatism as it's actually lived.)
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To: redk

As I said earlier, Huckabee is positioning himself to be the “leader” of the Republicans, or the Conservatives. He has been rewarded with a show on FOX. He obviously has delusions of grandeur. I happened to be channel surfing and saw Dan Rather on his show — Huckabee consorting with the enemy — and I quickly continued on. Anyone who watches Huckabee is the same kind of person who voted for McCain in the primary.


31 posted on 11/23/2008 8:06:49 PM PST by my_pointy_head_is_sharp (We're living in the Dark Ages.)
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To: redk

“Neither HuckabeeIs it that Huckabee wants to get Romney out of the way so that he can emerge pre-emptively as the GOP alternative to Sarah Palin in 2012?”
Neither Huckabee nor Romney can hold a candle to Palin. In trying, they will result to liberal tactics and betray both themselves and their fan clubs. Sarah is the “real deal”. They are not.


32 posted on 11/23/2008 8:37:23 PM PST by wgflyer (Liberalism is to society what HIV is to the immune system.)
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To: Mad Dawg
Dubya said IHS was his favorite philosopher

IHS is the greatest Philosopher to ever appear on the scene.

Why don't you like IHS?

33 posted on 11/23/2008 8:59:46 PM PST by Syncro (Tagline: optional, printed after your name on post)
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To: svxdave
Huckabee’s bigotry is against Mormons.

Nope.

Nice try.

34 posted on 11/23/2008 9:01:27 PM PST by Syncro (Tagline: optional, printed after your name on post)
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To: redk

Huckabee and Romney deserve each other. Can we put them in a room until they bore each other to death?

The Republican Party has to come up with something better than either one of these two, or they can kiss the next election good bye, too.


35 posted on 11/23/2008 9:03:45 PM PST by Pining_4_TX
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To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp
No one should give Rather any exposure at all.

It gives him "legitimacy" and he has lost any that he ever had.

I'm going to have to call Mikie on this.

36 posted on 11/23/2008 9:04:02 PM PST by Syncro (Tagline: optional, printed after your name on post)
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To: wgflyer
They will continue to try to destroy her as the GOP doesn't want a good conservative President.

Palin is what this country needs.

I notice that many posters here are using the talking points of the GOP/DNC to try to marginalize Palin because they know that she is more electable than any of them.

Plus she is a conservative. The GOP hates that in a politician.

37 posted on 11/23/2008 9:08:16 PM PST by Syncro (Tagline: optional, printed after your name on post)
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To: redk

This guy has Huckabee completely figured out.


38 posted on 11/23/2008 9:58:07 PM PST by littlehouse36 (http://www.howobamagotelected.com/)
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To: Syncro
Why don't you like IHS?

Before you repeat that allegation, maybe you'd like to (a) reread what I wrote, (b)consider the relationship between jumping to conclusions and Christian charity, (c) consider whether the "have you stopped beating your wife" sort of quesiton is compatible with the Christian walk, and (d) consider apologizing.

May your walk today be ever closer to IHS.

39 posted on 11/24/2008 3:38:00 AM PST by Mad Dawg (Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.)
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To: redk
Myth Romney and his Legion of Liberals, Backstabbers, Bigots, Chameleons, and LEO Impersonators.

"I'm not running as the Republican view or a continuation of Republican values.
That's not what brings me to the race.

(Romney Video, accessed 9/19/07)


"We don't intend to turn the Republican Party
 over to the traitors in the battle just ended.
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.""

--  President Ronald Reagan


I'm very clear I think, to the people across the Commonwealth
my "R" didn't stand so much for Republican as it does for reform.
"
(Romney Video, accessed 9/19/07)


"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."

--  President Ronald Reagan



40 posted on 11/24/2008 4:39:59 AM PST by Diogenesis
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