Posted on 01/18/2008 7:20:12 PM PST by Daniel T. Zanoza
“I didn’t raise taxes in Arkansas, I raised hope.”
Which slick, disingenuous political phony said this?
a) Bill Clinton
b) Mike Huckabee
Hard to tell the difference, isn’t it?
I like Huckabee, so bear with me as I say that if Mike didn’t want to get stones thrown at him he should not have entered politics. It is a battlefield and a place only for those who can take it. Mike needs to be one of those who can take it and persevere.
Sorry, but that's going to be quite a list.
You are out of your mind. The MSM LOVES The Huckster.
It’s the Conservative media and blogs that see right though him.
Oh Huck a boo hoo! Poor Huck! Huck it is a blood sport, remember? If you can’t take the heat stay out of the kitchen.
The first couple times Huckabee was getting slammed, I was right there defending him. Right here, in fact, defending him.
But the more this plays out, the more I’m getting so over, his “victim” act.
Buck it up. Quit whining.
Sheesh. He sounds like Hillery.
If your candidate could be trusted for any of his more conservative points, people like me might respond more favorably.
As it is, he is “Clinton-lite.”
You know he draws wisdom from Scriptures don’t you. I mean, the nerve of the man. /s
I see all the Ron Paul zealots are online tonight...at least they’re not out burning crosses.—Dan Zanoza
They won lots of elections...
To remain ignorant of history is to remain forever a child who'll be led by whoever sounds most pleasing or convincing.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Sitting in a cubicle at campaign headquarters you search Conservative websites like the NY Times, Washington Post, LA Times, Salon, CNN and Daily Kos looking for favorable articles about the Huckster to post on FR
...(oooh, here's one from DU!)
Armed with nothing but talking points from Hucks' website, you attempt to convince conservatives that your candidate is not a Christian socialist or a pro-life Democrat
...(Jesus would want amnesty for illegals)
When FReepers say Huck is a fiscal liberal, algore loving environmental wacko, open border amnesty pusher, Jimmy Carter foreign policy appeaser, nanny state smoker banner you provide the brilliant original response...a link to his campaign website
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...(Highly overrated)
All we need is a leftist who is pro-life, has an R next to his name, and talks about Jesus.
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"If you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer just as liberalism is a misnomer for the liberals–if we were back in the days of the Revolution, so-called conservatives today would be the Liberals and the liberals would be the Tories. The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom and this is a pretty general description also of what libertarianism is. Now, I can’t say that I will agree with all the things that the present group who call themselves Libertarians in the sense of a party say, because I think that like in any political movement there are shades, and there are libertarians who are almost over at the point of wanting no government at all or anarchy. I believe there are legitimate government functions. There is a legitimate need in an orderly society for some government to maintain freedom or we will have tyranny by individuals. The strongest man on the block will run the neighborhood. We have government to insure that we don’t each one of us have to carry a club to defend ourselves. But again, I stand on my statement that I think that libertarianism and conservatism are travelling the same path".
--Ronald Reagan
Inside Ronald Reagan: A Reason Interview from July 1975
Any questions Mr. Shill???
Hmm. It seems that The Huckster now finds the need to pledge against the very behavior and beliefs he held until the last televised debate started his numbers shooting downward.
Obviously you have a problem discerning character.
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=/Politics/archive/200712/POL20071204b.html
I don't think this article gives us anything different (really) to review him on immigration-wise. But I'd be interested in hearing from the Fredheads how it is that their candidate has not promised to raise taxes, but Huck has, yet Huck is hit up on that issue & Fred isn't.
His “pledges” - even if “followed” - will be nuanced to the point they have no shred of original intent left in them, but will otherwise be true to the “letter” of the word.
The Huckster’s “no amnesty” pledge could, due to his character, grant immediate citizenship to the illegals, but never be called an “amnesty program.” His tax pledge will be no more real than his stance that he reduced taxes more than raised them during his time in office (a lie he refused to fully counter Thompson on).
The Huckster’s words are worth only the air with which they were originally expressed and nothing more.
Trust him no farther than you can throw him.
Is it like Double Plus Vanity for DTZ to write a blog somewhere and then start a thread here about it because no one is gonna go to his block to read such a trite peice of pablum?
Betsy Hagan, Arkansas director of the conservative Eagle Forum and a key backer of his early runs for office, was once "his No. 1 fan." She was bitterly disappointed with his record. "He was pro-life and pro-gun, but otherwise a liberal," she says. "Just like Bill Clinton he will charm you, but don't be surprised if he takes a completely different turn in office."
Phyllis Schlafly, president of the national Eagle Forum, is even more blunt. "He destroyed the conservative movement in Arkansas, and left the Republican Party a shambles," she says. "Yet some of the same evangelicals who sold us on George W. Bush as a 'compassionate conservative' are now trying to sell us on Mike Huckabee."
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