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The Latest Huckabee Meltdown
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Posted on 12/31/2007 1:07:57 PM PST by Tossup

This is a train treck...

SPIKES SPOT ATTACKING ROMNEY ON ABORTION, SPENDING, GUNS.

AD HAD ALREADY BEEN DELIVERED TO STATIONS.

HUCKABEE SAID HE CHANGED HIS MIND JUST BEFORE THE PRESS CONFERENCE, HOPES IOWA VOTERS WILL REJECT NEGATIVE ADS JUST AS HE HAS.

LAUGHTER FILLS ROOM AS HUCKABEE SCREENS AD ANYWAY FOR MEDIA.

SKEPTICAL QUESTIONS FROM REPORTERS ABOUT HIS PROFESSED CHANGE OF HEART, AS CAMERAS RECORD AD PLAYED ON GIANT SCREEN.

ROOM FILLED WITH EASELS DISPLAYING OPPOSITION RESEARCH ON ROMNEY.

(Excerpt) Read more at thepage.time.com ...


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: 2008; ads; clintonesque; elections; huckabee; ia2008; manfromhope; rinocatfight; romney
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To: keepitreal
I guess you have figured out that I had not read the article and I will not read it.


21 posted on 12/31/2007 1:18:03 PM PST by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat attack!" Bull Halsey)
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To: romanesq
Romney will be the next President.

He cannot win. People need to wake up and realize this.
22 posted on 12/31/2007 1:18:10 PM PST by mcjordansc
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To: Tossup

Wow, all caps for that?


23 posted on 12/31/2007 1:18:28 PM PST by Scythian
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To: colonialhk

I absolutely agree, what a way to get press.


24 posted on 12/31/2007 1:19:28 PM PST by commonguymd (Move it to the right -Vote for Fred! Filler' up at www.fred08.com!)
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To: wastedpotential
He showed them to the media to prove he had made the ads, so they would not accuse him of making it up.

Man, you just can't make up this type of stuff. I'm not going to run these ads which we are now showing you to prove to you that we're not going to run these ads...

But glad to see there's at least one Huckster supporter around here.

25 posted on 12/31/2007 1:19:29 PM PST by kingu (No, I don't use sarcasm tags - it confuses people.)
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To: mcjordansc
Voted “least likely to succeed in a general election” as far as I am concerned.
26 posted on 12/31/2007 1:20:27 PM PST by commonguymd (Move it to the right -Vote for Fred. Filler' up at www.fred08.com)
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To: romanesq

That’s a depressing thought .


27 posted on 12/31/2007 1:21:17 PM PST by Neu Pragmatist (Just say NO to Liberalism by saying NO to Romney .... Fred Thompson is our only hope)
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To: i_dont_chat
Can you just imagine if he did something similar with foreign policy?

Huckabee foreign policy:
He may not be able to find Afghanistan on a map, but he might find a crocheted afghan on the sofa.



Huckabee Confused about Borders
  Posted by Maelstorm
On 12/29/2007 2:30:51 AM CST · 19 replies


NYTimes ^ | Dec 28, 2007 | By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE and DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK
DES MOINES — Mike Huckabee used the volatile situation in Pakistan Friday to make an argument for building a fence on the American border with Mexico and found himself trying to explain a series of remarks about Pakistanis and their nation.

28 posted on 12/31/2007 1:21:32 PM PST by TomGuy
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To: All

Someone needs to post the Howard Dean scream sound wave. This IS the Huckster’s “Dean Scream.”

I saw the press conference on Fox News. The reporters were bwhah-hah-hahing out loud at him—and I don’t blame them!!


29 posted on 12/31/2007 1:21:54 PM PST by RooRoobird20 (Thankfully Convered Catholic)
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To: Tossup

It sure is like amateur hour on the Huckabus. Wonder if this brain trust will be advising President Huckabee?


30 posted on 12/31/2007 1:22:11 PM PST by keepitreal
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To: kingu

Let me get this straight - does anyone really think that by NOT running these ads on TV he somehow will benefit more? Rollins wanted to run these ads and pressured Mike to run them, but the candidate himself took it down.

Could be genious in the end, but we will find out. It is hardly a meltdown.

BTW - there are several FREEPERS who support Huckabee, but they have been treated so badly by the Fredheads that they no longer come here for debate. Me, I like to debate, even those who lack the intelligence to articulate their own position, but just regurgitate some label they heard their favorte columnist or talk show host use about someone.


31 posted on 12/31/2007 1:23:17 PM PST by wastedpotential (A Reagan Bush conservative from OH and ..... an unashamed Huckabee supporter)
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To: RooRoobird20

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5FzCeV0ZFc


32 posted on 12/31/2007 1:23:56 PM PST by TornadoAlley3 ( An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping that it will eat him last..)
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To: Tossup

Huckabee walks a fine line, sometimes with his foot on one side, sometimes on another.

The liberal media gets miffed.

The backers of other GOP candidates try to make hay, while Huckabee gets to the voters with positive messages, while painting Romney as an untrustworthy man.


33 posted on 12/31/2007 1:24:01 PM PST by unspun (God save us from egos -- especially our own.)
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To: kingu

Sort of like the unintentional cross in that Christmas ad that none of the Huckabee team apparently noticed.

And when newsies made mention of it, Ole Huck just did his best Ole BillyJ, “awwww, shucks, ‘twern’t nothin’ meant by it.”


34 posted on 12/31/2007 1:24:29 PM PST by TomGuy
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To: Neu Pragmatist

I’m with Fred. But no it’s hardly depressing. There will be disappointments no doubt but it’s far better than class warfare Silky Pony Edwards, or liberal theology Empty Suit Obama or heaven help us, the marxist in sheep’s clothing Shrillary.

You need some perspective my FRiend.

Happy New Year!


35 posted on 12/31/2007 1:25:08 PM PST by romanesq
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To: keepitreal

Well I wonder what old “Bare Knuckles” Rollins has to say about this . Why are they pulling their punches ?


36 posted on 12/31/2007 1:25:28 PM PST by Neu Pragmatist (Just say NO to Liberalism by saying NO to Romney .... Fred Thompson is our only hope)
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To: Neu Pragmatist

Romney says he vetoed a bill to give in state tuition to illegals and also a bill to give illegals drivers licenses. If this is totally untrue let me know, because I will vote for Mitt to hold the reins in on amnesty. I figure if Joe Arpaio can support Mitt on antiillegals so can I, and that is why.


37 posted on 12/31/2007 1:25:37 PM PST by libbylu (I am voting for the prettiest.)
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To: romanesq
"Romney will be the next President."

Only of his commode.

38 posted on 12/31/2007 1:25:47 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (~~~Jihad Fever -- Catch It !~~~ (Backup tag: "Live Fred or Die"))
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To: wastedpotential

I was really taken aback this morning, but looking at Huckabee’s latest ads, I think he will keep taking his chunk of the Iowa voters:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video_log/2007/12/huckabee_tax_cuts.html


39 posted on 12/31/2007 1:25:47 PM PST by unspun (God save us from egos -- especially our own.)
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To: TornadoAlley3

Thank you—ROFLOL!!!

There must be something about Iowa that makes unstable candidates go off the deep end. First Howard Dean, now the Huckster. LOL


40 posted on 12/31/2007 1:26:40 PM PST by RooRoobird20 (Thankfully Convered Catholic)
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