Posted on 10/10/2014 10:18:47 AM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist
Former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee warns he'll leave the Republican Party if it stops opposing same-sex marriage and abortion.
"I'm gone. I'll become independent. I'll start finding people that have guts to stand. I'm tired of this," he told the American Family Association's radio show.
His comments follow the recent Supreme Court decision not to take up gay marriage.
"I am utterly exasperated with Republicans and the so-called leadership of the Republicans who have abdicated on this issue when, if they continue this direction they guarantee they're gonna lose every election in the future," Huckabee said. "Guarantee it."
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Getting rid of Huckster seems like the pot at the end of the rainbow. You see what I did there.
I’m figuring both ends of Santuckabee or Huckatorum will run in Iowa, making them split that tiny sliver and both becoming irrelevant.
Bingo.
Yeah, regardless of how one feels about this particular issue, Huckabee is a statist through and through.
The sooner the better. We’re better off without the Huckster.
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Really? So you’re fine with Jeb, Mitt, Christie, Paul or whoever else Rove says will be the nominee?
Huckabee is all about Huckabee....and I’m tired of him calling me for money!
Huck may be a phoney (my take), but leaving issues like gay marriage and abortion off the list of "the country is going in the wrong direction" is a mistake that isn't necessary to make.
Unfortunately Huck is taking advantage of that mistake.
For me, 2016 is all about the Supreme Court. If Hillary nominates replacements to anyone from Kennedy rightward, we can say goodbye to the social conservative movement for at least generation, as her goons on the bench will knock-down any laws that they don’t like, from Congress on down to state-level laws. It’ll be like handing the freaks on the Left the ultimate veto pen, in the form of “judicial review.”
On the other hand, Republican presidents’ nominees in my lifetime have been so damn unreliable once they reach the high court. It’s been disgusting to see it happen again and again. Kennedy, O’connor, Souter, now Roberts.. our country would be a fundamentally different place if GOP presidents had made wiser choices, choices in the mold of Justice Scalia.
The GOP nominee will have to be as solid as a rock on judicial appointees.
Actually, the causes Huckabee and many here believe in would be better of without the Republican Party.
Hey RevRund Huckster.
Don’t let the door hit ya!
:-)
C'mon. Stating the opinion that we're better off without the Huckster (I agree), does not mean anything of the sort that you imply above. Ever heard of Ted Cruz?
I wish the Huckster would take Rancid Prieus with him!
Well, there's a lot of variance in definitions — it used to be that young women of 13 or 14 were married off (many cultures have a special coming of age celebration of a girl's first period, the biological signal that she'd of child-bearing age), nowadays "children" can be up to 26. So, using that definition, there's a vast number of people in America's history who married children.
(This is, I believe, the result of having so many arbitrary ages — instead of a single debarkation-point like 18 being the age of majority and sticking with that. [Well, I would be fine with three 'classes' insofar as age goes: 0..12, 13..17, 18+])
Yaaaawwwwnnnn!
Actually I was just commenting on the knee-jerk reactions that pop up like clockwork every time a Huckabee thrad is posted.
The Huck haters ignore the context of what was said or done and just pile on with the vitriol.
Notice that one FReeper upthread shouting ugly remarks about Huckabee and his family being FAT AND UGLY?
Typical.
Good for Huckabee, but there are too many issues where he is a squish.
Well, one of the two main reasons that Romney was the first GOP candidate in my entire voting life, regardless of office, big or small, to NOT get my vote, was because he helped facilitate this degeneracy of fag-marriage in his state as governor (and basically got the whole ball rolling).
So it’s pretty obvious to say that any GOP-er that is even remotely wobbly on the issue will never get my vote. And honestly, the way it looks today, with the state of the GOP rushing to embrace such deviancy, I think there is a very high chance I don’t vote for the Republican in 2016. It would have to be someone like Palin or Cruz.
Don’t tease me, Bro..................
We're not all Republicans because we think the Chamber Of Commerce is persecuted. Not everyone votes GOP because we want Free Trade with every nation in the world that has slave and child labor.
The GOP-E may be trying to balance Reagan's Three-Legged Conservative Stool on just two legs, but the rest of us will be happy to support a brand new stool if they cut the Social Conservatism leg off of theirs.
Our issues matter as much as our money, our volunteering, and our votes. Dump our issues and you dump our money, our volunteering, and our votes.
To the GOP-E: we don't want a Socially Liberal, Fiscally Conservative GOP any more than you want a Fiscally Liberal, Socially Conservative GOP. We look at your conversion on Gay Marriage the way you'd look at us if we started pushing a “windfall profits” tax.
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