Posted on 01/24/2008 1:49:05 AM PST by Kurt Evans
“Duncan Hunter is a man of integrity, and wouldn’t endorse Huckabee if he thought it would lead to McCain winning the nomination.”
Article starts out with an instant lie. Hunter said the two people he liked and would consider backing were Huckabee and McCain. He ended up choosing Huckabee, but not in order to stop McCain. Wonder what the Huckster promised Hunter. What deal was struck.
He has no money and loudmouth supporters are not giving to him.
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I'm a Southern Baptist who is hostile to the political Huckabee. I resent the way he has USED his Christianity to fish for votes.
I am happy that the chances seem to be dwindling that I will have to choose between universal healthcare and snake oil.
Hunter either didn’t do his homework on Huckabee, which doesn’t speak well of Hunter, or he knew it and endorsed Huckabee anyway, which speaks significantly worse of Hunter.
Typical of the baseless nonsense from the Huck-haters, who until yesterday mostly idolized Duncan Hunter. Rather than consider that they may have adopted a distorted view of Huckabee, based on a few cherry picked items from an 11 year record, they are willing to instandly discredit the judgement and/or integrity of the man they were willing to trust to lead the free world. But if they were so wrong about Hunter, what does that say of their own judgement? How can they be so sure that they were wrong about Duncan, without even considering that they were wrong about Huckabee instead?
As I've said before, I would be OK with either Mitt or Huck. They are both conservatives based on their current positions. Both were governors in states with overwhelmingly Democratic legislatures (and in Huck's case a state with a simple majority veto override). Of course there were times when they accepted less than conservative choices. That doesn't make them liberals or socialists.
You’re free to support whomever you like. But I would just respectfully disagree with you on Huckabee being more conservative than Romney.
Huckabee, to be fair, would wage the war on terror well and would be adamant in his defense of pro-life values. But on illegal immigration, he is by far the most leftwing candidate we have running.
Hunter should have endorsed McCain. LOL! I just hope Hunter can sleep nights knowing he lost your respect.
I think this is way of telling everyone, “I don’t want to be vice-president.”
Fred labeled Huckabee a pro life liberal. I haven't seen anything in his record that would dispute that.
Huck is the most pro-gun rights candidate out there. If that matters to you.
But and it’s a huge BUT, I pray daily for my vote, and I follow that up with careful attention to what all of them are saying and doing. I honestly believe there are enough of us that the Lord will give us, once again, the person we need for the times.
My faith also tells me though that I can’t say my prayer and then sit back and wait for a positive response from above. At some point I’ve got to do what I can to support a candidate. And that’s what this whole, long, sordid thing we call the primary season is all about.
Maybe this is what my dad meant when he talked about “the rubber meeting the road”!
A LOT of us thought Duncan was the man. Now we’ve got to decide how to handle his recommendation. If it turns out we can’t go along with him then it’s just as well he’s out now and this will be a definitive moment for those of us who supported him.
By the same token, if we were as convinced as we were that HE was the MAN, and realize now we were wrong, doesn’t it mean we have to really CAREFULLY consider the others. Who else among them would turn out to have feet of clay?
I really dreaded this time, but as it unfolds, especially on the Democratic side, it turning out to be pretty instructive and a lot more than a little entertaining.
“And some are hostile to evangelical Christianity.”
I don’t think most people are hostile to evangelical Christianity, the hostility is toward those that want a Theocracy and the large “mega-churches.” Many of these churches are just “personality cults” to one ministers beliefs. If you have looked at the Baptist Seminaries lately you can see what the Hucks crowd would like...”loyalty oaths” to their beliefs. These people are not the traditional Southern Baptist.
Nope, just not a fascist.
Well, maybe we could use the words of a Huck lover...
At least Mitt is running as a conservative. The same can't be said about Huck, Rudy and McCain.
He has a right to endorse anybody he wants. I’m not saying otherwise. He can endorse Madonna if he wants to.
But the point is, here he is, the Great Conservative, only getting 1% in the polls and all his strongest backers here yapping on and on about how it’s all the media’s fault and some of the rest of us wondering if there is a REASON why Hunter could never break the 1% mark and then he SHOWS us clearly, in a single act, how he’s a one-percenter through and through, deep down in his soul.
But sure, he has the RIGHT. I’m not disputing that. He can endorse Paris Hilton if he wants to. That’s his RIGHT.
“And some are hostile to evangelical Christianity.”
Saying that people oppose Huckabee because he’s Christian is as valid as saying they oppose Hillary because she’s a woman or Obama because he’s black.
It couldn’t POSSIBLY be because they have substantive, principled reasons why they oppose Huckabee. Nope, they’re just hateful hating haters who hate Christians.
Liberals think in such simplistic,identity politics terms, not conservatives, which tells me everything I need to know about Huckabee and his supporters.
As much as I have had against Governor Huckabee so far, I am voting for him in the primary. After adding up the candidates' positions over the last five years, their honesty, and such, I determined that the only one of the lot I want near a Supreme Court nomination is Huckabee. I'll vote the lesser of the evils one more time.
“Huckabee, The Lesser Evil”
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