They nearly always look about like I expected them to.
Posted on 10/26/2014 9:32:35 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The casino magnate and big Gingrich booster in 2012 may have his eyes on a new candidate in 2016.
Billionaire casino magnate Sheldon Adelson and his wife Miriam spent an astonishing $98 million trying to elect conservative candidates during the 2012 election cycle. The Adelsons threw more than a fifth of that total at Winning our Future, a super PAC supporting GOP presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich. We all know how Gingrich’s primary campaign against Mitt Romney turned out, but the Adelsons’ contributions kept Gingrich’s campaign afloat far longer than the former House Speaker would otherwise have survived. With potential candidates already gearing up for the 2016 contest, they’re assiduously courting Adelson’s support. According to a new report, a surprising contender has emerged for Adelson’s backing — former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee.
RealClearPolitics’ Sean Conroy reports that Huckabee — who just weeks ago was threatening to leave the GOP for its sin of not hating gays hard enough — is “making moves” consistent with a repeat bid for the Republican presidential nomination, hoping that he can accomplish in 2016 what he failed to in 2008. Riding a wave of social conservative support, the Southern Baptist preacher won the Iowa caucuses that year, but short on cash and boasting only limited appeal, his campaign quickly flamed out. Since then, Huckabee has hosted an eponymous show on Fox News, while continuing to stump for GOP candidates and maintain ties to key members of his social conservative base. Huckabee contemplated a White House run in 2012, but opted to stick with his more lucrative career as a conservative media celebrity....
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They nearly always look about like I expected them to.
When he can actually grow an ironic mustache, he’ll have one.
All the money in the world couldn’t buy the Huckster the presidency.
Adelson is part of the problem in the Republican Party, not the solution.
He could bankroll Huckabee to run interference and suck off conservative religious voters so they won’t support Ted Cruz and allow the GOPe anointed candidate.
The rules for the primaries and caucuses are already bent and shaped to favor the GOPe, the big money behind the interference runner candidates for the establishment will be icing on the cake.
If you do that then maybe you’ll get an audience with Cruz. If so, ask him how someone as intelligent as him can be so clueless on mass legal immigration.
It’s disappointing to hear him call for increasing our already too high levels of legal immigration. How can he not realize that doing so is the same as calling for an increase in the inflow of future Democrats? It’s the same as wanting to hasten the demographic destruction of conservatism.
Has he bought into the myth that Hispanics are natural conservatives?
So now we’re supposed to be against legal immigration? How did your ancestors get here? Mine came on a ship from England in 1632 to settle what would become Pennsylvania with William Penn. That was legal immigration. For some reason our schools are not turning out nearly enough engineers, physicians, nurses, entrepreneurs and many other occupations, so we’re allowing a certain number to enter in to work here. That’s pretty much the opposite of illegal immigration. And most of those people are not Hispanic.
Nope.
Those 100,000 from Haiti are “legal” immigrants.. those hundreds of thousands of Muslims from all sorts of countries like Somalia being resettled here as refugees are “legal” immigrants.
No more mass refugee resettlements
I wouldn’t vote for the huckster under any condition.
Those were Mr. Obama’s doing. Do you REALLY think that a president Cruz would take similar actions?
I doubt he would.
But to say we cannot control or cut “legal immigration” is way too simple a statement.
Who said that?
I’m surprised at your response. First of all, the question about how my ancestors got here is completely irrelevant. It’s ridiculous in so many ways.
Immigration policy is no different than any other public policy. It should be set with the best interests of the country and its citizens in mind. Nostalgia about family history is nice, but should have no bearing in setting policy on such a complicated issue . And it’s a generally leftist tactic this whole ‘where did you come from’ line. It’s meant to make people who are skeptical of current immigration policy feel guilty about holding such rational and mainstream views. It’s a way to sabotage a debate sorely in need of reason, logic, and facts with cheap emotion. It’s a way for proponents of an unpopular view to avoid defending their position on the merits.
Second of all, I was talking about mass legal immigration. You left out the ‘mass’ part. While I think opposing all immigration is a perfectly legitimate position, it’s not my position. I support legal immigration...much lower levels of legal immigration that is.
So yes, I would say that a conservative should be against mass legal immigration. Current mass legal immigration is already helping to turn the nation blue. Increasing immigration will only accelerate this process. Do you dispute that?
It’s a myth that there is a shortage of STEM workers, yet Cruz wants to increase the current annual limit of 65,000 five fold! But that could be forgiven if Cruz wanted to offset this by ending extended family chain migration, and by abolishing Ted Kennedy’s Diversity Lottery visas, and by severely restricting asylum and refugee visas.
It’s just puzzling at how someone as smart as Cruz doesn’t understand demographics. What will it take? Maybe when mass legal immigration has turned Texas into a battleground state? Will that do it?
I like Cruz. It’s an exciting prospect to think of a charismatic and articulate conservative leading the party in 2016 and beyond. Cruz could be that candidate. But as long as he supports mass legal immigration then he is whistling past the graveyard.
Either the GOP will end mass immigration or mass immigration will end the GOP (and conservative movement).
Maybe when Dallas is Haitian and San Antonio is Somali and Fort Worth is Saudi people will start rethinking these things
Then we’ll have new versions of Grover Norquist and KarlRove telling us that they are ‘natural Republicans’ and we need only reach out to them.
I'm not saying he's right, but I am pointing out that this is what puts almost every group that pours financial support into election campaigns in this country on the same side on this issue.
I am certain huchabee is a nice man.
He is also a f-ing RINO puke like Jeb, Christie, and so many others that no matter what i will Not vote for.
No RINO’s,
Real conservative or go fish.
I agree with most of what you say. But there is no good reason at all to think the GOP will ever win, or even break even with Immigrant groups come election time. Surely the chamber of commerce people know that their cheaper labor and increased number of customers will be offset by by anti-business, anti-growth policies implemented by Democrats. And deep down, surely Cruz knows that in 20 years or so he won’t be able to carry Texas.
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