Hunter is strongly pro-life and Huckabee is also strongly pro-life. Hunter is very worried about China - Huckabee is the only remaining candidate who seems to share any of his concerns about China. Also, while Huckabee has a horrible record on immigration he has adopted a platform on immigration with many similarities to Duncan Hunters. So, he is as believable on immigration as Romney is on abortion. Huckabee and Hunter also share a passion for protecting the second amendment. It is for these reasons that I am sure that Hunter endorsed Huckabee. Obviously Huckabee is not a perfect choice but given the options it was about as good of one as he could have made. I knew he wouldn’t endorse Romney due to Bain capital and its dealings with China and there was no way that he was going to endorse Mr. Amnesty or the pro-abortion Giuliani.
“Hunter is strongly pro-life and Huckabee is also strongly pro-life. Hunter is very worried about China - Huckabee is the only remaining candidate who seems to share any of his concerns about China.”
Bull.
Only Paul will end our addiction to debt.
Then we would stop funding our debt by selling it to China.
China is buying us - with our own stupid greed for gubmint handouts.
FREE TRADE "My growth factors include free trade. There will be a growing clamor for isolation and protectionism. That might feel good for a few years. But then, we'd be passed by the products that met the new world competitive standards like we were standing still. Our cars would be as out of date as the Soviets' were after their experiment in protectionism. Our barriers against services would be thinner than air. Protectionism would virtually guarantee that America would become a second tier economy, with a second class standard of living. It sounds nice not to have to compete, but if you don't compete, you start down a road that leads to economic collapse."At the same time, we have to make sure the rules of free trade are fair. It's time to make sure China's markets, for example, are opened to our goods. And it's time to make sure they enforce our intellectual property rights as well as they enforce their own - try to counterfeit a Beijing Olympic tee-shirt and see what happens to you. No, the easy money for criminal counterfeiters is in software, entertainment, pharmaceuticals, and high tech - the things that America exports.
Thank you for a sensible post. Maybe the fact is that Duncan knows the real Mike Huckabee, warts and all, not the caricature we have fabricated in our little FR echo chamber.
A passive profit sharing ... a form of retirement income like most retirees have ... and not active in the day-to-day management.
I understand what Duncan says however its not realistic to believe Romney has a say in changing current management decisions. Even as the one of the founders, the guys there now are making their mark.
[snip]
Romney Worth As Much As $250 Million By JIM KUHNHENN, Associated Press Writer
Monday August 13, 2007 | http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6847438,00.html
A notation in Romney’s filing, however, says that under a noncompete agreement with Bain Capital, Romney retains a ``passive profit share as a retired partner in certain Bain Capital entities formed on or prior to Feb. 11, 2009.’’
A note in Romney’s report states that Romney asked for a listing of Bain’s underlying holdings, but, like other funds in his blind trust, the fund managers said the information was confidential and declined to provide it.
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Associated Press Writer Glen Johnson in Boston and Garance Burke in Fresno, Calif., contributed to this report. [snip]
Of course maybe we should pull all candidates reports filed with the Federal Election Commission and the U.S. Office of Government Ethics and see what might be in them ... or how scarce the information in them really is.
Oh puhleeze.
Huckabee is the only one the media SAYS is concerned about China.
Wonder why?? Perhaps they are trying to boost the one candidate which would demolish any chance the GOP has in '08.
Romney has given many proposals on getting tough on China, specifically on how to prevent China from getting over on the US.
Other candidates have also, but to a lesser degree.
And what is so awful about Bain Capital in regards to China?
Lastly, I must admit to getting a laugh at seeing Hunter-only folks floundering all over the place trying to justify why Duncan should not be considered a flip-flopping liberal liar.
After all, Huckabee is the MOST pro-illegal immigrant of the entire Republican bunch -- and that is saying a mouthful!!
Too close to rapists, murderers and other assorted thugs for my liking.
“Hunter is strongly pro-life and Huckabee is also strongly pro-life. Hunter is very worried about China - Huckabee is the only remaining candidate who seems to share any of his concerns about China. Also, while Huckabee has a horrible record on immigration he has adopted a platform on immigration with many similarities to Duncan Hunters. So, he is as believable on immigration as Romney is on abortion. Huckabee and Hunter also share a passion for protecting the second amendment. It is for these reasons that I am sure that Hunter endorsed Huckabee. Obviously Huckabee is not a perfect choice but given the options it was about as good of one as he could have made. I knew he wouldn’t endorse Romney due to Bain capital and its dealings with China and there was no way that he was going to endorse Mr. Amnesty or the pro-abortion Giuliani.”
FINALLY, a sane voice in a loud crowd of nutters. Folks, a great many of you have been singing Hunter’s praises for a long time now about how he was the MOST conservative candidate in the field. NOW when he tells you that based upon his FIRST HAND dealings with Huckabee he thinks Huckabee is the best choice, you go ballistic and curse him? MAYBE he knows something you don’t...and don’t want to know because you might have to eat some crow?
Wake up folks. Romney is NOT a conservative at all - he bends with the wind. All Romney has going for him is nice teeth, a nice hairdo, money, and mormon connections. The man isn’t fit, politically speaking, to lead a proverbally horse to water. He isn’t competent enough to pour pee out of a boot with instructions written on the heel. He has no business being considered for high office.
Folks, you had better take a most closer look a Huckabee; especially if you are seriously pro-life, against the homosexual agenda, and for protecting the 2nd Ammendment. Huckabee is only going to appoint originalists to the supreme court. He is NOT a Jimmy Carter, and if you think that you are just a plain damnable fool.
For once, listen to someone (Hunter) you all said was the best conservative out there.
I realize I have just wasted time, but it had to be said.
**BUMP**
Good post