Posted on 05/07/2011 11:21:40 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
>>But you have to govern in a way that is different than you can campaign.”<<
And THT sentence alone shows why RINOs infest the GOP. Have you ever heard a RAT utter such nonsense? We elected the GOP Congressmen to change Versailles on the Potomac. So far, they have failed miserably and show no more signs of getting better.
The $100 BILLION spending cut we were promised became a paltry $535 MILLION. Strike One! Ryan proposes a budget that will INCREASE our staggering debt by $5 TRILLION over 10 years. Strike Two! Now,they are going to raise the debt ceiling with nothing in return. Strike Three! You’re OUT!
Did Reagan, for all his faults, ever promise a "new America" where spanish could be heard on evry street?
Reagan did everything as a president to unify Americans. Bush pushed amnesty and, if it weren't for 9-11, we'd probably have it.
| We are now one of the largest Spanish-speaking nations in the world. We're a major source of Latin music, journalism and culture. Just go to Miami, or San Antonio, Los Angeles, Chicago or West New York, New Jersey ... and close your eyes and listen. You could just as easily be in Santo Domingo or Santiago, or San Miguel de Allende. For years our nation has debated this change -- some have praised it and others have resented it. By nominating me, my party has made a choice to welcome the new America. Our future cannot be separated from the future of Latin America. As I speak, we are celebrating the success of democracy in Mexico. George Bush from a campaign speech in Miami, August 2000. |
Here is an excerpt of a good critique of that speech:
In equating our intimate historic bonds to our mother country and to Canada with our ties to Mexico, W. shows a staggering ignorance of the civilizational facts of life. The reason we are so close to Britain and Canada is that we share with them a common historical culture, language, literature, and legal system, as well as similar standards of behavior, expectations of public officials, and so on. My Bush Epiphany By Lawrence Auster
1. Mike, you’re no Ronald Reagan.
2. Frankly, you’ve got bigger problems than being a compromising squish. I’m not thinking of you being simultaneously a plump greasy little ball of self-pity and malice, though you are. I’m thinking of you already having had a couple of guys you’ve commuted get out and kill people, with no guarantee there won’t be more. Yeah, that’s not good.
He can criticize policies that are forced on a sitting governor, but his weaknesses are going to come from unforced errors that he made. No one forced him to pardon as many criminals as he did. No one forced him to support taxpayer financing of college degrees for illegal alien children after the taxpayers had already put those children through elementary school, junior high, and high school. No one forced him to support cap-and-trade at one time or give a rather weak explanation of what he said.
Mike Huckabee has good experience as a governor. He's generally been a friend to the Second Amendment, and I appreciate his strong stands on those issues. Overall, I think he'd try to control spending and taxes even though he doesn't seem as strong on this issue as some other candidates do. I'd be happy to support him against Obama if he won the nomination.
Beyond the above weaknesses, he's going to have a harder time winning some of the swing states that a Republican candidate must win. He might be okay in Florida, but he's going to have big problems in Ohio. He should win Iowa in the general election. He may or may not be able to retake Virginia and North Carolina. He can probably win back Indiana, but that's not a given. I hope he can win neighboring Missouri. I doubt that he'd be strong in winning western states like Colorado or Nevada.
At this point, Mike Huckabee might do better for himself and the party if he sits out 2012.
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A very good article and on the money. However, be prepared with asbestos clothing for the incoming.
One thing you missed, coming after the worse till now president ever, the guy who hands out towels in the mens room would have looked great too!
Check this rino off your list!
The Media is loving a chance that the Republican nominee might be Huckabee, Romney, Gingrich, or (Insert moderate name here). With the track record Huckabee has in Arkansas (clemency for a murderer as one), Romney has in Massachusetts (Romney care failure), Gingrich sitting on a couch with Pelosi talking about global warming.....etc....
The only way to win against Obama is a CONSERVATIVE candidate on the Republican Ticket. Not one endorsed by Rove or the elite establishment. It didn’t work with McCain & it won’t work this time either.
I believe your term was “cut and ran” when it came to Lebanon. If you check the French histories of the time you will find the criticism that it was France that actually cut and ran and left the Maronite Christians — who had received French support literally since the 11th Century — to fend for themselves. (In addition to the Marines killed in Lebanon, there were a series of explosions that had killed many French military.) Thus, when Reagan asked his advisors (and Baker can be checked on this): If the French were planning to bug out, and if the Israelis had their own plans for Lebanon, did the USA really have a dog in a fight that seemed both endless and pointless if the Christians were ungovernable? The general response was no, the Lebanese embroglio seemed both expensive and pointless. The USA then left.
“The Media is loving a chance that the Republican nominee might be Huckabee, Romney, Gingrich...”
Agreed. What these three have in common is that they are all big government totalitarians, who are far, far beyond the Republic of limited government envisioned by the founders. There is not a dime’s worth of difference between them and Hillary Clinton, and hardly 15 cents worth of difference between them and BHO.
Oh, and Romney is a gun-grabber, too, responsible for banning “assault weapons” in Massachusetts, in addition to socialized medicine.
If all the Republican candidates had the exact same stance on every issue, would you then decide to get into the race and, if so, why should we pick you over the other candidates?
Please try to answer without going all Balkanizational.
Stay out of it Huck. Build your dream home in Fla and stick with the TV show the Little Rockers.
It really burns my butt when they speak of Reagan being the Great Communicator. Bush - now THERE was a communicator! Huckabee? What's a Huckabee? Bush on the other hand. Now THERE was [ahem] a President! Now where was I? Oh yeah, under a rock. |
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Good morning, JLS!
Candidate Reagan would have no trouble at all winning election in a landslide today, and President Reagan would too, despite his record as you have laid out, omitting [of course] his many stellar accomplishments.
You cannot have it both ways when you try to inject history into the mix and that’s the fatal flaw in your argument and Huckaboob’s.
Women would applaud his nomination of the FIRST female JUSTICE TO SCOTUS, along with William Rehnquist ... · Antonin Scalia ...
The subject of illegal immigration would be off the table, right, with the border secured first before the 7 million were granted *amnesty*? Recall it was only 7 million *back then*.
Terrorism in Lebonan? Now how do we rewinde that to meet today’s terrorism?
Taxes? Where to start? How to revise that one to meet today’s overwhelming mess?
Let’s see, JLS, how many times did “Candidate Reagan in 1980” *compliment* Jimmy Carter like Huckaboob tosses kisses at Obama?
The next time you want to take up for Huckaboob, don’t do it on the back of *President Reagan*. He beat the daylights out of Carter and he won reelection.
Huckabee sucks.
Bush was certainly not what he could have been.
But when you pick on Bush’s speaking skills like some juvenile Air America dillweed, you just look like an idiot.
>>>>>Former President Ronald Reagan, Huckabee argued, would find it next to impossible to make it through a modern day Republican primary given that he "raised taxes as governor" of California and "made deals with Democrats."
That has to be one of the most ignorant statements about Reagan and politics made by one of todays so-called major players. Another conservative challenged moderate using Reagan to prop himself up. Truly despicable.
American politics in 1976 and 1980 did not embrace conservatism the way it does today in 2011. Reagan advanced conservatism more than anyone else. That includes Bill Buckley and the infamous, Barry Goldwater. While Buckley laid the basic groundwork for conservatism, Goldwater's 1964 run for potus actually set the conservative movement back a full decade.
It was Reagan who actually built the lasting foundation upon which the modern conservative movement exists till this day.
Mike Huckabee's remarks and many of the replies on this thread are nothing but more than cheap pot shots taken at a great American. Was Reagan perfect? Of course not. Reagan worked within the political and governing system that existed at that time.
Reagan was a successful two term Governor of California and the most successful conservative President since Calvin Coolidge. Highlights that will never apply to Mike Huckabee.
Dillweed indeed.
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