Posted on 12/30/2015 5:33:29 PM PST by VinL
Just from my childhood neighborhood- though I expect Grant might have said the same.
Spot on, Vin. The splitter strategy is real, but quite clandestine in effecting the unspoken rules of the road.
If you can win yourself, that’s fine. If you can’t, you are held in high favor if you hang around and clear the brush for the other establishment mule who is trailing along on the road, near by.
Obviously, Huckabee has run out of gas, with just enough money left to bang around on someone deemed to be in the wrong lane from the establishment lane. Apparently, Cruz is the mark.
The only thing is Huck seems to actually like TRUMP, or pretends to, in order to keep favor with his conservative pals while he clears it for Rubio, etc..............
....”I REALLY do not like that man”....
Neither do I!
Huckabee is simply looking to keep his face out there so he can continue the wealthier lifestyle he’s accustomed to now since working for Fox. He’s like a Hollywood actor trying to keep his mojo going when it’s all but died.
You said, “I don't know if Cruz has said it, but it's said endlessly here on FR.”
You should find and listen to what Cruz said. His answer about homosexual marriage has always been the same - it is a matter for the individual states to decide based on the 10th Amendment:
“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
Because it is a matter for the states, homosexual marriage is not a top-three priority for him.
Huckabee wants the federal government to decide what marriage is - he does not want the states to have that power. Huckabee’s PAC cut out the rest of Cruz's response (about it is a state matter) after he said, “No”, when asked that question.
Grant and his audience endlessly saluted the Sfaccima, Mario Cuomo, with that phrase. It was a running gag for years.
RIP Bob Grant- Dec. 31, 2013.
“Cruz needs to fight back.”
You do not see him fight back on TV having a food fight like Trump does. He has a multitude of workers in Iowa and he goes there to talk first hand to the voters. He is going through the state in a bus shortly for a week, going to every county in Iowa. He has been going there over and over since he entered the race back in March, talking to individuals and he has pastors of churches there speaking for him, plus office holders doing that.
The establishment is done. Huckster is batting for Trump. Trump has a clear nomination unless Cruz halts him in IA. Huckster is the only weapon Trump has to take out Cruz. Huckster will milk his evangelical credentials to taint Cruz for the benefit of the glorious campaign of Trump.
Trump’s proxy war is obvious.
Well, we’ll have to agree to disagree.
Trump has Huckleberry’s number....and he ain’t dialing it ;-)
Santorum has been a climber his entire adult life.
Couldn’t even decide which party he wanted to work in.
Went all in for Snarlin’ Arlin Spector (R-PA) when Pennsylvania had a chance at a more conservative senator, and spent his entire senate career carrying water with the Establishment, for the Establishment, by the Establishment and playing paddy fingers with the Union he was beholding to back home. A true mule.
He flogged IOWA with his great faith, used his Church, his family and the tragic illness of his daughter as the better part of his platform there, and actually WON the dang state! (Now comes Cruz beating the same drum, but with much more class, because THAT is the IOWA monastery way.)
Huckster is a political evangelist, but this cycle lacks the resources to repeat his performance, due to the competition of Carson and the intrigue he brings, and Cruz who is much better known and has mountains of PAC money and conservative cash to eek out a buy in IOWA.
Huck and Santorum are flim flam artists and they are both out of work most of the time, but for FOXNews propping up Huck for 36 months.
Spot On!
Benedict was an expert in Theology of the Catholic Church, and it is never found to be remotely parallel with the self righteous Pelosi school of thought, she who has already betrayed and denied Church teaching, and thereby excommunicated her own self.
I thought Huckabee made a very good talk show host.
Has Cruz even hit back on defending his father this week? The father took quite a whack for his style of faith and it’s been crickets. Cruz was vociferous (for Cruz) in defense of his daughters, but nothing on the father, I think.
Cruz is more interested in IOWA and needs no extraneous waves created. Four weeks is a long time.
Huck is a former Fox News host, that alone should tell us something about his true convictions.
Rick is my former Senator from PA and a former shill for the Republican Establishment of this state, supporting Arlen Specter in his fight with Pat Toomey in 2004.
20 YEARS AGO IN 1996 RICK SANTORUM WAS CAMPAIGNING FOR THE SHORT LIVED PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDACY OF NONE OTHER THAN ARLEN SPECTER.
Case closed......
Santorum’s platform is different than Cruz's. There is much overlap but they also disagree. I didn't see any personal insults from Santorum just differences of opinion.
The Republican Establishment can’t get at Trump until they take down Cruz.
If Trump and Cruz dominate the early primaries and caucuses bringing in large chunks of delegates, Rubio will be forced out.
Cruz must be destroyed to give Rubio a shot at Trump.
Hey Rita,
Nice to hear from you. I do hope you and your family spent a wonderful Christmas.
you’re right— they do what they’re trained to do. But St.Rick and Rev. Huck parade themselves as the Christian altar boys— the hypocrisy is particularly offensive. Huck may be for Trump,(though I’m certain trump isn’t involved in this charade), but in the end- Huck is for Huck.
Rubio is their only hope- but he’s fatally flawed. They can flim-flam all they want, but they can’t undo his betrayal on amnesty. Paul took the soul out of his campaign when he endorsed McConnell- Rubio did not same when he teamed up with Schumer-— they can’t recover. Not in this climate.
IMO, that’s why Rubio is listless- he feels the anchor around is neck.
It’s Trump or Cruz— As long as they do nothing to estrange the other camp’s supporters, the survivor will defeat the remaining Gop-e.
January should be a ton of fun.
These are the idiots who gave us Owebowma, twice.
Old acid mouth— I think she is a soap opera shut-in with a mouth to match, worse than any cuss word, and bitterrrrr, obviously. But, then clutches the fake pearls, that must by now stick to her chest, when anyone else cusses.
I see- I never listened to him— but I know he was of Italian descent (as am I), so the language doesn’t surprise me.
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