Posted on 08/25/2012 6:34:50 AM PDT by C19fan
Mike Huckabee rallied hundreds of Southern Baptists on a conference call Friday night in support of Todd Akin, offering advice about how they can help the embattled Missouri Senate candidate stay in the race — while acknowledging Akin still may have to bow out.
“This could be a Mt. Carmel moment,” said the former Arkansas governor, referring to the holy battle between Elijah and the prophets of Baal in the book of Kings. “You know, you bring your gods. We’ll bring ours. We’ll see whose God answers the prayers and brings fire from heaven. That’s kind of where I’m praying: that there will be fire from heaven, and we’ll see it clearly, and everyone else will to.”
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Akin is going to ride this thing out and portray himself as martyr for the so-con purists, untainted by dirty notions of "electability." After he is thoroughly stomped in November, he will become a fixture at some so-con think tank. Maybe he will become co-host of Huckster's thoroughly unwatchable show.
But I hope Akin supporters realize that your guy is just another cynical politician, looking out for number one. And he is willing to aid and abet the most pro-abortion administration in history to save his own prospects.
Akin=Huckabee Puppet
This clown is greedy power hungry prideful Dc Insider fool whose wife and son are his payroll.
The clown will not be a class act and step aside for the greater good.
His crazy comments and overall pathetic behavior is hurting a bunch of other unrelated GOP MO candidates.
There were three other strong pro life GOP MO primary candidates so he isn't that unique.
He and his wife /son desperation to hang onto their PRIVILEDGED DC Lifestyle is disgusting. What is the point of this GOPe talking point.
No this has to do with the gop-e and those in love with Romney, the pro-abortion, pro-gay, pro-forcing 5 year olds to be taught the gay agenda and parents can't opt out their kids, global warming believing, pro gun control, raising taxes, socialized medicine, amnesty & tarp liberal..
If you say he “changed” your fooling yourselves. He said he was 100% prolife and pro traditional family & has already changed and is now progay adoption, pro killing an innocent baby because his father was a criminal.
The gop-e and romney lover don't want true conservatives because they will holler will liberal romney moves back to his true liberal self. People are fighting to election a liberal and throw out a true conservative. I know we have lots of romney “workers” on FR to make sure we conservatives on this CONSERVATIVES site stay in line. Can't have people thinking he's not a conservative. Close your eyes those who are so scare of Obama that you will vote for a liberal because he has an R behind his name. Pretend he hasn’t lied to us already. Romney will be worse than obama on social issues. If he can lie with a straight face in the primary to get your vote and destroyed other good people, his opponents, to get power, he is an evil %$@&.
Yeah, the sooner some people come to grips with the fact that we aren’t criticizing Akin’s POSITIONS but rather Akin as the CANDIDATE, the better off we will be.
Not to keep beating a broken record, but Paul Ryan wins in a lean Dem district here in Wisconsin that Akin would be lucky to win 30 percent in. Yet the NYT keeps telling me this week the voting difference between Akin and Ryan on pro life issues is indistinguishable.
How smart and articulate the candidate is makes a HUGE difference in electability. Ronald Reagan and Barry Goldwater believed much of the same things. Yet one guy was able to win huge margins in two presidential elections, while the other guy lost big.
This clown is greedy power hungry prideful Dc Insider fool whose wife and son are on his payroll.
Yes he is Keeping the campaign funds in the family checking account / legal election funds scam. The clown will not be a class act and step aside for the greater good.
His crazy comments and overall pathetic behavior is hurting a bunch of other unrelated GOP MO candidates.
There were three other strong pro life GOP MO primary candidates so he isn't that unique.
He and his wife /son desperation to hang onto there PRIVILEDGED DC Lifestyle is disgusting. What is the point if this GOPe talking point. And the Huckster is playing this fool to stay relevant and self promote his dull TV and radio shows is disgraceful too.
Ping.
I know Mike Huckabee has lots of enemies on Free Republic, but I think this shows clearly that significant people in the social conservative wing of the Republican Party have decided to invest heavy political capital in Todd Akin.
Whether we like Akin or not, or like Huckabee or not, we need to pay serious attention to what could easily become a nasty internal fight in the Republican Party.
Social conservatives, national defense conservatives, and economic conservatives all need each other. None of us can win elections on our own.
This election is winnable (for Akin). Unfortunately many have tossed in the towel already. Sad. Akin is the candidate all. Handle it...
http://www.jbs.org/index.php?option=com_rokdownloads&view=folder&id=131&Itemid=259
And that is all that this is about at this point: The family Akin wants to continue in the lifestyle to which they have become accustomed.
Yep,
This guy has been in DC as a congressman for awhile .
His congressional seat is now gone with a new goper poised to win in Nov in a very Repub district.
So old Todd , his wife and son are just about to get hteir lovely DC elite lifestyle yanked away from them.
Toddy has his wife and son on the campaign payroll.
They are screwed so they are getting desperate.
So please send them cash to fight those
evil GOP overlords (sarc).
HA , nice scam and not working here .
And Huckster is milking the situation to stay in the news cycle to promote himself.
He is a Modern day Elmer Gantry with bad hair.
See the forest through the trees, Derp. The long-term health of the pro-life movement does not benefit by one election if, in that election, people begin to perceive the movement as one of ignorance. Akin, when asked to articulate his position, proved himself incapable of doing so. We don’t need that!
“may indeed induce miscarriage...”
But not as a matter of the will, and it still doesn’t answer the question of whether a woman should be allowed to have an abortion in cases of rape or incest.
I have long thought that for the Pro-Life movement to succeed in changing hearts and minds on a scale big enough to realistically overturn RvW or to a minimum drastically lower unlimited access to, government support of and payment for and the overall number of abortions, it has to, as a larger movement, move away from a fire and brimstone and purely religiously centered argument and move to a or at least embrace and engage with a more secular and scientific POV; one that is based on human rights and perhaps even as a feminist issue much like the org. “Feminists for Life” does.
There are even some pro-life atheists (like me ; ) )
Confessions of a Pro-Life Atheist, Why I Fight Abortion
“As a materialist, I think it has been demonstrated that an embryo is a separate body and entity, and not merely (as some really did used to argue) a growth on or in the female body. There used to be feminists who would say that it was more like an appendix or even-this was seriously maintained-a tumor. That nonsense seems to have stopped. Of the considerations that have stopped it, one is the fascinating and moving view provided by the sonogram, and another is the survival of ‘premature’ babies of feather-like weight, who have achieved ‘viability’ outside the womb. … The words ‘unborn child,’ even when used in a politicized manner, describe a material reality.” -Christopher Hitchens, God is Not Great (pp. 220-21)
But when pro-lifers evoke words like “Baal” and “Satan” they turn a good number of non-religious or nominally religious people off who might be persuaded to see what abortion really is – the killing of an individual human being.
When pro-lifers like Akin say stupid things like “legitimate rape” and unscientifically supported ideas like “women have a way of shutting this down”, they turn a lot of people off. When pro-lifers take an extreme position on the use of all or any forms of birth control or say that women who have ectopic pregnancies shouldn’t be saved even as their pregnancy can’t continue, won’t result in a live birth and will almost certainly kill the mother, they turn a lot of people off. When pro-lifers oppose a woman who has been violently raped from receiving emergency contraception or tell them they should just suck it up, Praise God for their rape, smile and be happy and raise their baby on their own, they turn a lot of people off.
This is IMO not a winning position for either the pro-life movement or the GOP.
Mike Huckabee made a lot of enemies on Free Republic by being soft on immigration and soft on fiscal policy. He has always been a strong pro-life, pro-traditional family stalwart.
Brilliantly stated.
And the “self-righteous older Southern rural-state
preacher” is the precise counterpart to the self-righteous
younger Urban secularist, which is why this non-debate
“debate” never stood a chance of illuminating the issue.
No one should anticipate any “rational discussion” when attention is only paid to those whose business it is to polarize, confuse, and bewitch the issue.
We are trying to win and election here. Not climb Dong Ap Bia.
Freepers warned us 4 yrs ago that he was our Jimma Carter, and they where right.
While he did good with the Chick-Fil-A thing, he has probably cost us 60 in the Senate and will give us slim margins to get anything done.
I wonder if it isn't payback to Romney for some reason we don't know about in 08'.
BTW he FUBAR'd 08' so bad I still blame him for a lot of the mess that gave us McCain.
He may have FUBAR'd things for Romney, us, and America more than we will ever know..
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