Retire the liberal tax raising, open border, algore loving, nanny state Huckster Ping
The liberal MSM must really think Social Conservatives are stupid. They keep pitching and pimping the Huckster hoping somebody will buy.
Posted on 10/29/2007 10:34:33 AM PDT by Eric Blair 2084
A bitter fight is taking place behind the scenes over Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee.
Influential conservatives are clashing over whether Mr. Huckabee is capable of keeping evangelicals from fleeing the GOP to form a third party or if he's too liberal fiscally for the Republican electorate.
The battle is bubbling into the public arena, fueled by fears that a three-way race could hand the presidency to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton or another Democrat, and by murmurs of Mr. Huckabee as a vice-presidential candidate on the party's ticket.
"We called him a pro-life, pro-gun liberal, when I was in the state legislature and he was governor," said Randy Minton, chairman of the Arkansas chapter of Phyllis Schlafly's national Eagle Forum.
Mr. Minton voices the concerns of many conservatives that while Mr. Huckabee governed as a social conservative in opposing abortion and same-sex "marriage," he was a treacherous liberal on taxes, social welfare spending and illegal immigration.
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This is Huckabee’s payback to the Clintons.
He will have a heck of a lot easier time then Rino Rudy McRomney.
The liberal MSM must really think Social Conservatives are stupid. They keep pitching and pimping the Huckster hoping somebody will buy.
They are correct.
Easier time at what?
Keeping the party together.
I told you Huckabee was Clinton Political brother!:)
Don’t ya just love the name tags?
Either Huckabee is with us or against us.
I believe he is against us.
I don’t think Huckabee will be the candidate a third party will want.
I’ll vote for Mr. Huckabee if he’s the Republican nominee for president.
Although without much enthusiasm.
“a pro-life, pro-gun liberal”
Yup.
It's nothing personal. Mike seems like a nice guy. We all wish him much health and luck in his retirement and private life. I'll pitch in for his retirement party and his band can play. Of course I won't be able to go myself since he kicked smokers out of the restaurants.
Pres. Bush signed a 10 year massive tax cut. Mike’s record as a fiscal conservative is a disgrace.
But as “compassionate conservatives” (translation: GOP liberalism) he could probably give Jorge a run for his money on immigration.
Nope, will not drink the grape cool-aide.
The fear now is that the GOP will encourage Rudy if he wins the GOP nomination to make Huckabee the VP on the ticket in order to keep the socons in the party.
Of course, what this will really do, is guarantee that both the socon and libertarian wings of the party will hate the ticket. Socons won’t vote for a baby killer and libertarians won’t vote for a nanny state, smoker banning, serial tax raising, 3rd world immigration welfare state pusher like Huckabee.
Well, suppose either Mitt or Rudy win the nomination and then pick Mike as VP??? Personally, that would be a pretty strong ticket. This constant picking at our candidates fails to take into consideration the absolute horror, of the Hildabeast winning with huge down ticket pick ups for the socialist pacifist Dems in ‘08. Please stop the conspiracy thinking. No Dem is better than any of our top 5 tier candidates for the WH. When the Gop voters finally understand this, we will actually beat Her Highness. Our guy has to win a national election. Remember? He has to get 273 electoral votes from somewhere.
Huckabee can take his open borders and . . .
I won’t vote for abortion or open borders, ever.
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