Posted on 12/14/2007 9:09:41 PM PST by Dane
Rollins: Huckabee Can Fill Reagan's Shoes
CONCORD, N.H. -- Mike Huckabee's low-budget, fast-moving campaign brought on some needed organizational muscle today in the form of Ed Rollins, the veteran political strategist for candidates including Ronald Reagan -- to whom he today compared his new client for his ability to communicate and connect with voters.
"Governor Huckabee has probably inspired me as much as Ronald Reagan did," Rollins said after being introduced by Huckabee at a press conference here. "I've looked a long time to find a candidate like that...A lot of people walk around talking about the Reagan days and the next Reagan. I was with the old Reagan and I can promise you that this man comes as close as anyone to filling those shoes."
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And Travis before you post, I am not dano1.
Huckabee isn’t fit to be the same room as Reagan’s shoes.
FILL Reagan’s shoes?
He ain’t fit to SHINE them.
I was thinking that he isn’t worthy to smell Reagan’s old socks.
I was going to say Huckster is not fit to tie Reagan’s shoelaces, but you had a similar idea first.
Ed Rollins should have been sent out to pasture long ago.
Rollins was fabulous as Perot’s manager, wasnt he? Such a sincere fellow. I believe he’d sell his services for a jug of Boones Farm and a pair of socks.
Great pic of Rudy! LOL
Huckabee’s name shouldn’t even be mentioned in the same breath with Reagan’s.
Rollins is speaking of lil Ron Reagan.
The Post sounds like they think Huckabee would be a good nominee :-)
Rollins would be good to fill Huckabee’s bowl.
No, it’s all the laughing over the fake degree huckster! LOL
geee, and here I thought there would never be another Reagan. and in the WaPo yet. ooo.
btw, is Ed the same bloke that did such a bang-up job for Bill Simon’s run for Gub in California not so many years ago..?
YOU GOT THAT RIGHT
I don’t think Huckbee is fill to fill in President Reagan old suits
I thought he was after the paying off the black preachers comment in New Jersey!
“inspired me as much as” = “wrote as big a check as”
“Rollins was fabulous as Perot’s manager, wasnt he? Such a sincere fellow. I believe he’d sell his services for a jug of Boones Farm and a pair of socks.”
Didn’t he burn some bridges back then or something? I seem to have a memory of him getting pretty nasty.
It is about time for some of my fellow Freepers to realize that the glass is about 80% full with Mike Huckabee and that Fred Thompson can’t get out of the barn, much less into the race.
DECEMBER 14, 2007
HE'S NOT A DOCTOR OF THEOLOGY, HE JUST PLAYS ONE ON TV
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The Huckabee campaign stated: "Governor Huckabee doesn't have a theology degree. He only spent a year in seminary.
Oh no you don't
Given the Choice I would vote Obamarama over the Huckster...The fact is..are...The media is leading with the religion and faith issue...As a conservative (I stopped saying republican) I am not interested in Fiscal Conservative issues vs Social conservative issues....I deal in Liberty and Freedom two words that are foreign to all 18 candidates.....
I agree, Huckabee is full of it.
who cares what Rollins thinks. Anyone who loves the idea of Liberty and the true meaning of Republic, owes it to themselves to read and study Huck's record. I did such. I was astounded at how much of a statist is Huck. Huck's first instinct is to have government "solve" problems. The last thing that would cross Huck's mind is to ask, "is it Constitutional."
Anyone who cherishes limited government and reveres our Constitution cannot rationally support Huck. Huck is a pro-life ultra left liberal. Providence will not allow Huck to win the nomination.
Great minds...see post 27
When pigs fly!
Now remember between Reagan and Perot, Rollins was for Jack French Kemp. Remember how that turned out.
I guess you aren't a student of US national elections. I suggest you go back over the past 28 years and see how the polls were this far out from Iowa, NH and others. In politics three weeks is an eternity.
The last thing conservatives need is to get on this MSM created candidate. Huck's surge has prompted me to donate more $$ to Fred and encourage many of my family and friends to do likewise. It isn't over until the votes are counted. Huck will fall.
More than his “statism”, which is popular in AR, is his horrible record on crime. He makes Dukakis look tough.
Following the 1993 elections, during a breakfast debriefing, Rollins admitted to journalists that one factor in the success of Christine Todd Whitman in the New Jersey governor’s race against incumbent Democrat Jim Florio had been the distribution of “walking around” money to influential persons in inner-city precincts, including African-American pastors.
According to Rollins, workers who had been hired to help get out the Democratic vote were told, “How much have they paid you to do your normal duty? . . . We’ll match it. Go home, sit, and watch television.” In addition, Rollins said, “We went into black churches and we basically said to ministers who had endorsed Florio, ‘Do you have a special project?’ And they said, ‘We’ve already endorsed Florio.’ And we said, ‘That’s fine, don’t get up on the Sunday pulpit and preach. . . . Don’t get up there and say it’s your moral obligation that you go out on Tuesday and vote for Jim Florio.’” Ministers who cooperated, Rollins said, received contributions to their “favorite charities.” As a result, Rollins said, “I think, to a certain extent, we suppressed their vote.”
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ed_Rollins
Congrats babe, you are the all time champion of political pimp-posting!
In fact, I think that you, on your own, (well, counting all your screen names) have posted more Huckster PR, than all of the Ron Paulites ever did put together!
Good luck, we are going to need it.
Check out this great video of a Reagan speech from way back. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4770988975023965161
And Rollins was in on that speech by Kemp and Bill Bennett to CA after prop 187, they all flew in and called the citizens of CA racists.
No wonder Rollins is working for Huck, he is going with the RINO, liberal in conservative clothing.
I don’t say Republican anymore either. They just don’t represent me. The only one that does is Duncan Hunter and I will continue to support him.
Sounds to me like Huckabee’s better able to fill Algore’s shoes.
Huck's gift-givers ended up in state posts
14 December 2007
Mike Huckabee accepted more than 90 gifts from 21 Arkansans he appointed to state posts during his decade as governor, a Politico analysis of state public records found.
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Huckabee's personal attorney, Kevin Crass, was designated by his campaign to respond to Politico. It's "a coincidence" that there's some overlap between the list of gift givers and appointments, said Crass, adding Huckabee "understood that you can't trade appointments for gifts and that didn't happen."
Sure, I believe you.
Hollins leaped before he looked.
Lead Mod just spanked Dano1 on another thread, so “he’s” lying low, and Dane is logged back in.
Hollins = Rollins
A man that corrupt has to be a natural liar. The gall, to run for president in the internet age, and not think his record would come back to haunt him!
The only thing Huckabee and Reagan have in common is that they both started their careers in radio.
Huckabee also got a degree in speech and communications - but, surprisingly, DOES NOT have a theology degree as he has claimed.
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