Posted on 08/11/2010 10:44:41 AM PDT by grassboots.org
The headline could have read "Deal, Huckabee and Gingrich beat Handel, Palin, and Romney in Georgia GOP Governor Run-Off."
Of course only Deal and Handel were running. Each candidate rises and falls on his or her own merits. As I posted earlier, endorsements may actually do more for or against the candidate doing the endorsing rather than the one being endorsed.
But in Georgia Tuesday, Nathan Deal upset conventional wisdom and Karen Handel with a come-from-behind win in Tuesday’s run-off election. Handel lsot to Deal by only about 2500 votes after beating him handily in the primary race. Deal had a rally with backer Governor Mike Huckabee on the Sunday before the vote while Handel got a boost from her own supporter Monday, Governor Sarah Palin. This is just the latest state race that may have implications for the national presidential candidates. Will there be fallout from Palin’s support of a candidate who, a few years ago, joined the homosexual rights group, the Log Cabin Republicans, and then denied it during her campaign (Handel, that is)? Handel also supports abortion in the so-called “special cases” of rape and incest.
Huckabee, on the other hand, has pledged to only support candidates who are 100% pro-life and pro-marriage. If there is a political advantage to this it would quickly dissipate if he reneges on this promise. I am not claiming that Huckabee’s reasons for this are political. (As a supporter of his campaign in 2008 I believe they are based on principle, instead.)
Romney supported Handel, too, but he has already backed at least two candidates that are decidedly pro-abortion (Governor candidates Meg Whitman of California, and Bob Ehrlich of Maryland). Newt Gingrich sided with Deal in this race but had previously endorsed Whitman and DeDe Scozzafava, the liberal Republican chosen by "the establishment" in the famous NY-23 House race eventually won by the Democrat. Conservatives, including Palin, had rallied around Doug Hoffman.
2012 is a long way off, but...
Do you agree that it is “Un-Christian” to deny illegal aliens benefits?
Do you think the role of Government is to fulfill peoples obligations as Christians?
We should really be denying everybody “benefits”, if you want to know the truth,
and No.
In 2004, Huckabee commuted the sentence of convicted murderer Denver Witham.
If Mike can make those pardons and the resulting murders unhappen, maybe we can talk.
Naw, until you repent and tell us you are AGAINST PAROLE ~ just Parole ~ like we’ve done here in Virginia, you are still in the Huckabee camp!
Kind of left a backlog of what are termed "compassionate paroles" ~ like the guy's dying and you move him out of his cell and somebody else gets to pay for his burial.
He is soft on crime.
He is soft on illegal aliens.
He is soft headed in his theology.
Liberals are hoping to portray Palin as recklessly destroying the Republican Party — in the hope that she doesn’t destroy the Democratic Party in November.
Hmmmm. That was my take...
I will giver serious attention to the matters you have raised.
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