Posted on 09/15/2014 11:00:02 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Huck is a non-starter for me. His time as Governor proved that while he may sell himself as a conservative, he is really a lib who likes nanny state government.
Lousy Governor, state party-killing RINO in AR (set the state GOP back 40 years when he left office), and militantly pro-illegals, and those are his good points...
Don’t forget the dead police officers...
That’s what I like — optimism! /sarc
Huckster exists to pull the stupid Chiristian *vote who get worried about edgier conservative candidates like Kruz.
Jimmah carter was the same trick.
* yes I am Christian too. And we all know the preachy type that are looking for a preacher in chief.
You know I got pretty excited when the Tea Party had some influence or at least some press. You look now and the McCain corksuckers et al have beat them down. Cochran in Mississippi broke the law to steal the nomination so he can resign the seat to (Barbor?) and every single Republican in power thinks that is wonderful.
I'm just not optimistic. Maybe I'm too old to be.
you would let Hillary have it then Huckabee?
WOW, he is not perfect , but having her and another 4 years of a radical left wing agenda shoved on us, WOW
Agree we need someone who fights back, and does not allow the liberal, liberaltarians to push their agenda on to conservatives.
Cruz, comes right to mind, as did Sarah though she will not run.
This individual is a rino with a very large horn. He has always seemed to be a flaky fake. And not that there is anything against a man of the cloth, this individual is not the man. He is as bad as Juan McCain, but seems to be more stable of mind than McCain. Would be more likely not to vote for either if given the choice. Didn’t vote for Juan the first time around...I voted for the woman called Sarah. The huckster doesn’t even have a good back-up
I don’t like anybody that pretends they’re as cool as Mr. Roberts.
Huck and Santorum, two retreads, kept politically alive by the Todd Akin wing of the GOP.
“How deluded is he?”
To answer your question, the movie “Elmer Gantry” comes immediately to mind.
No executive experience > Experience of being a lousy executive
Ping
He is being set up as a stalking horse,to split the conservative vote and we get another Rino,period
I wouldn’t vote for Huck unless he were the only guy left. He will never be the only guy left. In a way, he creeps me out....can’t put my finger on it.
Congressional experience versus executive experience is a real argument. I, too, would say that a former governor has an advantage in having seen a lot in terms of a functioning miniature government. But there have been senators who have had no problem being executives.
The real clincher in this argument is Abraham Lincoln who was not a senator or a governor. Some say he had no problem being the in charge guy.
Other senators who have not been governors:
John Quincy Adams
Senator, 1803-1808
President, 1825-1829
Franklin Pierce
Senator, 1837-1842
President, 1853-1857
James Buchanan
Senator, 1834-1845
President, 1857-1861
Benjamin Harrison
Senator, 1881-1887
President, 1889-1893
Warren G. Harding
Senator, 1915-1921
President, 1921-1923
Harry S. Truman
Senator, 1935-1945
President, 1945-1953
John F. Kennedy
Senator, 1953-1960
President, 1961-1963
Lyndon B. Johnson
Senator, 1949-1961
President, 1963-1969
Richard M. Nixon
Senator, 1950-1953
President, 1969-1974
Barack Obama
Senator, 2005-2008
President, 2009- present
I cannot stand this socialist. Bob
It should be a governor/governor ticket.
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