Posted on 01/07/2008 5:11:25 PM PST by NavVet
"My question for you evangelicals is this. If you’re looking for a real conservative, why are you supporting Huckabee? He’s completely discredited himself. What about Fred Thompson? If you’re looking for a real conservative. Huckabee is constantly engaging in class warfare against the producers. This laid-off line, it’s an attack on Romney, but it’s an attack on producers. It’s an attack on employers. It’s pure populism. He does oppose school choice! You don’t get the NEA endorsement in New Hampshire by supporting school choice."
(Excerpt) Read more at fredfile.fred08.com ...
Huckabee supports tuition tax credits, not vouchers - vouchers get the Gov’t involved in private schools, tax credits don’t...
Sorry. Can’t do that, Bud.
What’s good about this, is that it’s not an endorsement, yet it tells people where they should be looking. Good stuff.
Look, he needs to be asking VOTERS, not evangelicals. It is just thoroughly insulting for him to advocate for Fred in this manner.
Fred's a Christian Too Bandwagon !!
Fred is not as good on social issues and all the talking in the world is not going to change it. Plus, Fred was very instrumental in passing McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform. If Rush likes Thompson fine. I wish he would stop with the jabs at evangelicals.
Rush is opposed to identity politics. What he’s saying is, in effect, “if you’re gonna pick someone who suits your values, it’s Fred you want, not Huck.”
Apparently he’s not the right kind of Christan for these hypocrites.
To be honest, I haven;t looked at the link yet, but I read the excerpt, and I’m glad Rush is doing this - Thompson would be much tougher to beat than Huckabee. I’m tied to Romney myself - great uncle used to work for his daddy in MI, but Mitt was just a kid at the time - but I’d be for Thompson otherwise.
Let me put it another way for fellow Christians: If Huckabee was in my church, he'd do a great job as a Sunday School teacher or administrator, but not as Senior Pastor. He doesn't have the experience to do the job well, and in this dangerous world we don't need on the job training.
If you take the Baptist/Evangelical identity out of equation entirely, what do you have with Huckabee?
You have a lot, but it's not conservative politics. Move the thought process to your head and away from your emotions.
Just two years later, in 1999, Mike Huckabee signed into law House Bill 1724 that undid many of those initial gains.
Here’s how the Homeschool Legal Defense Asssociation (HSLDA), Court Report tells it,
Home Schoolers Lose Ground with New Law
“The enactment of House Bill 1724 on April 5, 1999, gives Arkansas the unique distinction of becoming the first state in the nation to add restrictions to its existing home school law.”
At a time when many states were easing requirements, Arkansas was sadly moving in the wrong direction. Huckabee signed HB 1724, known as Act 1117 that made homeschooling MORE restrictive. HSLDA’s website provides an overview of the new restrictions here and comments:
“Arkansas is now one of only 12 states to impose a deadline for beginning home schooling or requiring parents to provide advance notice to public school officials of their decision to do so. Because of this restriction, parents who encounter intolerable conditions at the public school, such as imminent danger to the safety or welfare of their child, will have to wait at least 14 days before withdrawing the child to begin home schooling or else face truancy charges for unexcused absences during the 14-day waiting period. No such restriction exists for parents who decide to immediately remove their children to attend a private or parochial school in Arkansas. This raises serious issues regarding the right of parents to direct the education of their children and equal protection of the law as guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment to the
United States Constitution.”
Is that Bud-Wiser
Once they know more about Duncan Hunter...I think they will support him.
Are you saying you are basing your vote for the presidency on the father of a candidate that your great uncle used to work for? Please tell me I misread that.
No:’)
Rush has all BUT endorsed Thompson. Only Rush’s self-imposed rule of not endorsing in the primaries appears to be keeping him from making it official.
Without breaking his own ‘non-endorsement’ rule, the Godfather has been ‘endorsing’ Fred for a few weeks now, but it seems that not too many are getting it.
Well right here Rush is participating in identity politics. Huckabee suits my values more than Fred. I resent him making this about evangelicals. I pick Hunter #1. But Huckabee will be my choice if Hunter drops out. I choose him based on his POLITICAL positions, not his faith. So Rush can just lose the evangelical remarks. He should make his appeal to all voters equally and stop stereotyping one group of voters. We aren’t stupid. We can figure out our values and who matches them best without his help.
Isn’t FT the one being endorsed by pro-life organizations? What social issues are you speaking of? Just curious.
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