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Mike Huckabee Praises Haley Barbour
The State ^ | 3/15/11 | staff

Posted on 03/15/2011 7:36:27 AM PDT by pissant

Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee took a different approach to a potential run for president, praising Mississippi governor Haley Barbour Monday.

“I would consider him a colleague who wants the same job,” said Mr. Huckabee said Monday. “I think Haley could be a very strong candidate, and I believe he has possibly the most brilliant political mind in America … I owe a lot of my political life to Haley.”

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Mississippi
KEYWORDS: barbour2012; rinofest
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"Haley taguht me how to be the Amnesty Queen I always knew I could be"
1 posted on 03/15/2011 7:36:31 AM PDT by pissant
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To: pissant

Of all the current choices I like Haley best. Very articulate and serious candidate.


2 posted on 03/15/2011 7:48:33 AM PDT by refermech
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To: refermech

I like him too. He’s my favorite so far.


3 posted on 03/15/2011 7:49:46 AM PDT by BunnySlippers (I love BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: pissant

Haley Barbour rocks!!


4 posted on 03/15/2011 7:54:46 AM PDT by Carl LaFong (Experts say experts should be ignored.)
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To: pissant

Is either “electable” (not according to Rush, according to you.)


5 posted on 03/15/2011 7:56:41 AM PDT by LurkedLongEnough
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To: pissant

i’m not voting for either rino.


6 posted on 03/15/2011 7:56:58 AM PDT by ken21 (dem taxes + regs + unions = jobs overseas.)
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To: refermech
But don't you know, Haley Barbour, the twice elected Governor of Mississippi, the silent leader (as in not bitchin’ on TV every day) of the state after Katrina with sound Conservative credentials and a long string of political successes is just a redneck bum who wants a workable and sustainable plan to end immigration issues for a change, doesn't want to stifle job growth in one of the poorest states in the nation and is stupid enough to damn Obama with faint praise that everybody except his detractors got.

Sheesh, get with the program...

7 posted on 03/15/2011 7:57:09 AM PDT by ejonesie22 (8/30/10, the day Truth won.)
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To: ejonesie22

A Haley Barbour, Herman Caine ticket WWould be great! I can dream can’t I?


8 posted on 03/15/2011 8:03:11 AM PDT by refermech
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To: pissant

Huckabee praises Obama as a ‘role model’ for family values:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_theticket/20110224/ts_yblog_theticket/huckabee-praises-obama-as-a-role-model-for-family-values

Huckabee Defends Michelle Obama against Sarah Palin:

http://www.rolandsmartin.com/blog/index.php/2010/12/22/mike-huckabee-defends-michelle-obama-against-sarah-palin/

With freinds like Yuckabee, who needs enemies?


9 posted on 03/15/2011 8:10:07 AM PDT by broken_arrow1 (I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
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To: refermech
I'd take it with either at the top.

I like proven success political and business. We need it.

10 posted on 03/15/2011 8:12:21 AM PDT by ejonesie22 (8/30/10, the day Truth won.)
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To: ejonesie22

Exactly, These guys have stellar track records. They have indeed walked the walk.


11 posted on 03/15/2011 8:14:54 AM PDT by refermech
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To: pissant

I sure wouldn´t want Huckabee praising me.


12 posted on 03/15/2011 8:31:47 AM PDT by onedoug (If)
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To: pissant

(Days before Haley Barbour was hired to lobby on behalf of the Mexican government in 2001, he signed a letter urging then-President Bush “to continue moving forward with [his] pro-immigration reform proposals.”

The August 9, 2001 letter from Barbour and five other former Republican National Committee chairmen says Bush’s immigration proposals are “both good public policy and wise political strategy,” according to a CongressDaily report at the time.

That day, the Bush Administration and Mexican government signed off on an agreement on an expanded temporary worker program that would, among other features, offer a path to U.S. citizenship for some three million Mexicans living illegally in the U.S.

Six days later, Barbour’s firm was hired to lobby for Mexico.

Barbour responded to Michael Scherer’s report on the lobbying by stressing that he doesn’t support “amnesty.”)


13 posted on 03/15/2011 8:41:33 AM PDT by mirkwood (Palin-Bachmann 2012)
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To: ejonesie22; refermech

Since 1900, only one Republican became president by defeating an incumbent. That was Ronald Reagan. He had these four traits that might have helped him:
1. He was conservative.
2. He was a governor.
3. He sought the nomination, in a previous election.
4. He was from the West.

These Republicans, who might run, have at least three of those four traits: Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, and Dirk Kempthorne. I hope that all four of them will run, and I hope that Haley Barbour, Gary Johnson, and Buddy Roemer will also run. I hope that at least four of those seven will continue campaigning until the convention. If that happens, no one will get a majority of delegates, before the convention, causing the convention to be more suspenseful and exciting, causing more people to watch and hear the republican ideas. That happened in 1980, and Reagan won about 40 states.


14 posted on 03/15/2011 8:45:12 AM PDT by PhilCollins
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To: refermech

Mr. Walking Negative-Repulican Cliche?

He is bright and articulate and probably a very good governor, I’ll grant you that. But the US isn’t voting out its first black president for him by any chance.


15 posted on 03/15/2011 8:52:24 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: pissant

You’ve got that right on amnesty, pissant!


16 posted on 03/15/2011 8:53:03 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: PhilCollins

Haley has something else going for him. He’s from the south and would sweep the southern states as well as the west. Not sure about Cal. though.


17 posted on 03/15/2011 8:56:50 AM PDT by refermech
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To: refermech

Two of the last three republican presidents were from the South, and three of the last four presidents were from the South. Barbour, Huckabee, and Roemer are all from the South.


18 posted on 03/15/2011 9:09:03 AM PDT by PhilCollins
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One piece you left off:

He was proceeded by Jimmy Carter, currently the worst President in our history.

History may not only be repeating itself, it may be besting the record...

19 posted on 03/15/2011 9:15:32 AM PDT by ejonesie22 (8/30/10, the day Truth won.)
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To: pissant

Haley and Huckabee - two amnesty queens.


20 posted on 03/15/2011 9:56:24 AM PDT by algernonpj (He who pays the piper . . .)
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