Posted on 02/08/2008 4:02:17 AM PST by monkapotamus
This is a good example of why I never liked Huckabee. What a crummy little comment.
It's difficult to understand since his conservative credentials go all the way back to August!
Excellent read about romney ....I recommend it.
“It’s difficult to understand since his conservative credentials go all the way back to August!”
LOL! Good one!
The man shut down an entire company, and chartered planes to fly his entire group of managers and staff to NYC to help find the lost 13 year old daughter of one of his company’s employees.
Your assessment of Romney couldn’t be further from the truth.
He was a former Governor of the most liberal state in the union. A state which has produced more politicians distrusted by conservatives that any state that I can think of . Because of that Romney had a lot of explaining to do, and he had to spend too much time on defensive. Jorge Bush, the son of a wealthy politically wired family just like Romney came out of the state of Texas, which has been a very red state lately. Romney was probably a better candidate than Bush, but in politics geography is sometimes everything. Bush’s geography allowed him to burst on the scene with a positive and offensive message and he rarely had to play defense. With Romney, more times than not he was on the defense. In many ways, Romney is an attractive candidate and for my money “looked” as Presidential as anyone in the race. McCain gets to play the conservative in great part because he is from Arizona. Does anyone believe that McCain could not get elected in Massachusetts? If so they are probably the same people who would deny that McCain was not playing footsies with the Democrats and Puff Daschle. The reason McCain is not a Democrat today is not because of his principles or his loyalty but simply because Jeffords trumped him by acting first.
The GOP is in dire need of a “cleansing.” I don’t see it getting one unless McCain goes down in flames.
But, I have some hope. I remember conservatives rising from the failed campaign of Ford.
Romney advanced a far left liberal agenda (including the foundation of socialized medicine with state-funded abortion AND homosexual marriage) to an extent that Massachusetts liberal ‘Rats NEVER dreamed possible.
Not just CC’s. There is a lot of people who will never vote for a Mormon - on the other hand they will never admit to anyone. I predicted this months ago.
Now I have to hold my nose and vote for McCain. Why? Because I love my country and realize that the alternative is much worse.
An analysis based on nothing.
i was a thompson, then romney supporter. however, i feel we owe it
to the men and women and their families who have sacrificed in
afghanistan and iraq not to let hillary clinton become president. or
any left democrat for that matter.
wife o buckhead
McCain was the veteran hockey player. The well funded football player and the naturally gifted baseball player had no chance.
The camera crew the national media, are biased, heavily left. And his hometown crowd, the Washington Senators, are also biased left. McCain knows that, and has played left for a long time, either because he's a natural lefty (I hope not so much) or because he's a (very) seasoned player, and knows how to win, even when it's ugly.
I knew what to think, all right. I thought Mitt was the kind of lying skunk who would say anything whatsoever to get himself into office, and I refused to vote for him under any circumstances.
Why do we let them call us radicals, or extremists? We are not!
This is what bothered me about Romney all along. It was obvious reading his statements from just a few years ago that he was saying that he "deeply" held these beliefs. He "deeply" believed in a woman's right to choose. He "deeply" believed in the gay agenda.
And now he says he "deeply" believes in the sanctity of life and in the marriage amendment.
That's was the great contradiction. One of those positions is a lie, but how to know which one? What if the deeply held anti-life and pro-gay agenda is the true deeply held belief?
And, in all his public life, THOSE are the beliefs on which he actually had a chance to act. And where did he come down: on the side of anti-life and the gay agenda.
His statements and his acts damn him as a demagogue.
Bears repeating! Huckabee does look and often sounds like a hillbilly (not that I have anything against Hillbillies.) I just can't get past another Guber/Bubba from Hope Arkansas...and his constant cracking "jokes" ... please! How presidential is that! He's only hanging around now in the hopes he'll get the VEEP nod from McCain...talk about a losing ticket! Sheesh!
Just take a look at the political scene over the last 15+ years. When I look back at all the key players in national politics over this period of time (I include presidents, vice presidents, majority and minority leaders in both Houses of Congress, etc.), I find a recurring theme among them . . .
Bill Clinton
Al Gore
George W. Bush
Dick Cheney
Newt Gingrich
Dick Armey
Tom DeLay
Dennis Hastert
Dick Gephardt
Nancy Pelosi
John Boehner
George Mitchell
Bob Dole
Trent Lott
Tom Daschle
Bill Frist
Mitch McConnell
The vast majority of these characters -- REGARDLESS OF PARTY AFFILIATION -- are from "red" states. I don't think this is just a coincidence.
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