And he's going to control government waist? OOPS, waste.
Posted on 02/04/2008 12:55:00 PM PST by Daniel T. Zanoza
Commentary by Daniel Zanoza, Executive Director
It has been an amazing experience. I have watched this year's race for the Republican presidential nomination with jaw-dropping awe. The Republican Party's elite, the dominant media and supposed conservative talk radio have done everything possible to marginalize Mike Huckabee--the only true pro-family Republican in the race--while doing so with a straight face.
Here's a message I hope no pro-family voter will ignore or mistake for political gamesmanship. There is a movement at hand in the GOP to marginalize the pro-family element of the Republican Party. The attack is coming from the Republican elite in Washington, D.C. The GOP power brokers, who wooed social conservatives to help win the election for George W. Bush's second term in 2004, would rather see pro-family Republicans muted and quietly shuffled to the side, like an aging relative who has lost their usefulness. The GOP establishment used former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson to help defeat Mike Huckabee in South Carolina before Thompson, being a man of integrity, refused to be used any more. Then conservative talk show hosts, like Sean Hannity (FOX News Channel) literally lied about Huckabee dropping out of the Florida Republican primary which had a significant impact on the outcome of that election. And the mainstream media did its best to ignore Huckabee, even though before the Florida primary, the former Arkansas governor was second in national polling.
I won't go into the why's for the attacks on Huckabee, because I covered that ground before in a column titled, "First Huckabee is Attacked: Then Huckabee is Blamed for Attacks, Misquoted, etc., etc..." [http://rffm.typepad.com/republicans_for_fair_medi/2008/01/first-huckabee.html] but I will go into what it will mean for the future concerning those of us who vote because of our moral convictions. A vote for John McCain--or, even worse, Mitt Romney--will help to tear apart the coalition of those who are involved with politics either because they are pro-life or against attacks on the institution of traditional marriage or against illegal immigration. Even those who are strong advocates regarding Second Amendment rights are threatened by the effort to break apart the pro-family political movement.
You see, those who vote because they are motivated by the issues above usually cannot be bought or manipulated. In fact, the pro-family movement represents a thorn in the side of the Washington, D.C. elite and breaking this unified body apart would make things much easier for the power brokers who decide who will run and when.
After Huckabee's success in Iowa, even talk radio ganged up on the former Baptist minister because the pro-life, protect marriage, anti-illegal immigration and pro-gun issues were not enough for them. They wanted a candidate who might cave on some of these topics in favor of support for corporate globalism. However, on the way to trashing Huckabee, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham and a whole gaggle of the conservative talk radio mob got something they didn't count on...John McCain. So now these talk radio gurus are scrambling to force the flip-flopper of all time, Mitt Romney upon social conservatives; the problem is the smart ones aren't buying it.
"The opinion makers decided they were king makers and the conservative public is suffering for it," said Peter LaBarbera, founder Republicans For Family Values [www.rffv.org]. "I think Romney is the biggest charlatan of all. The strongest pro-life advocates in his home state of Massachusetts can't stand him. Romney should be the biggest target of all for conservatives. If you're going to trash McCain and Huckabee, how can you leave Romney alone--when Romney is trying to portray himself as a conservative, yet he is still an advocate for special rights for homosexuals? This is a man who created a health insurance plan which included a $50 co-pay for abortion, whether he says it's his fault or not. Why isn't this grist for an Ann Coulter column like the ones she's written about Huckabee and McCain?"
LaBarbera continued, "I think some pro-family leaders have been bought off. For the sake of full disclosure, all pro-family and conservative groups should reveal how much money they've received from Mitt Romney or any other presidential candidate immediately."
Besides the lure of money, why would people like Limbaugh, Ingraham and Coulter support a man who didn't decide he was pro-life until he was approaching his 60th birthday? Well, you remember the attacks on Huckabee? These so-called standard bearers for the pro-family movement painted themselves into a corner when they used the Iowa caucus winner for a political punching bag. Now they are left with McCain or Romney as alternatives and both of these men are anything but alternatives.
The truth is a vote for McCain or Romney is a vote against the pro-family agenda. Sorry if this hurts anyone's feelings, but sometimes the truth is indeed painful. A vote for Romney sends a message that the presidency of the United States has a price tag. On the other hand, McCain is an honorable man, who, at times, falls prey to the lure of media praise and political correctness.
There really is no choice besides Huckabee for social conservatives on Super Tuesday. The question is: Will members of the pro-family movement help diminish their cause by not voting for what's right, but voting for what's politically expedient? Sometimes the enemy from within is the most dangerous foe of all.
Read other columns on the conservative pedigree of Mitt Romney by going to:
Mitt Romney's Liberal Paradigm Shift: a Republican FOR Homosexual 'Special Rights' http://republicansforfamilyvalues.com/2008/02/04/mitt-romney%e2%80%99s-liberal-paradigm-shift-a-republican-for-homosexual-special-rights/
Mitt Romney's Christmas Present to the 'Gay' Lobby Should End Pro-Family Leaders' Support for his Candidacy: LaBarbera http://republicansforfamilyvalues.com/2007/12/26/mitt-romney%e2%80%99s-christmas-present-to-the-%e2%80%98gay%e2%80%99-lobby-should-end-pro-family-leaders%e2%80%99-support-for-his-candidacy-labarbera/
For more on the Republican and Democratic presidential primaries, click on the "National Politics" category on the RFFM.org website.
There is more to leading this country than the abortion issue.
A Huckleberry surporter blasting McCain? He is so going to get in trouble with is boss.
Mitt is pro life
even McCain is pro life
Mitt knows we have to have a marriage amendment to protect marriage and McCain voted against it.
Huck just plays on people’s bigotry.
McCain supports embryonic stem cell research,
Mitt and Huck do not.
And he's going to control government waist? OOPS, waste.
He is a populist, not a conservative.
It is obvious from this hit piece on Romney, that they are working hard to help McCain win, and for Huckabee to be VP.
No thank you.
Huckabee's dishonest innuendos in his campaigning, is beneath what I expect from a man who claims to be A man of God!
Why the cheap shot? If you don’t support Huckabee (which I don’t), make it about the issues, there’s no need to bring fat jokes into it.
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That’s a reality tv show in the making if I ever saw one.
Huckabee isn’t a real candidate.
He’s just running as a spoiler for John McCain.
All the pro-abortionists are supporting McCain.
And so is Huckabee.
"The opinion makers decided they were king makers and the conservative public is suffering for it," said Peter LaBarbera, founder Republicans For Family Values [www.rffv.org]. "I think Romney is the biggest charlatan of all. The strongest pro-life advocates in his home state of Massachusetts can't stand him. Romney should be the biggest target of all for conservatives. If you're going to trash McCain and Huckabee, how can you leave Romney alone--when Romney is trying to portray himself as a conservative, yet he is still an advocate for special rights for homosexuals? This is a man who created a health insurance plan which included a $50 co-pay for abortion, whether he says it's his fault or not. Why isn't this grist for an Ann Coulter column like the ones she's written about Huckabee and McCain?"
There is more to leading this country than the abortion issue.
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Yah, true. There is appointing homosexual activists to the bench as well, as Romney did. And enacting a universal health care program that is $400 million over estimated cost this year alone . . . that’s Romney too. There is raising taxes (oh, wait, fees), Romney’s got that going for him. And then there is the $50 co-pay for abortion in Romneys universal health care plan that he enacted in Massachusetts. That’s a surefire way to tickle social conservatives and get them behind you.
This “Romney is a conservative alternative” nonsense . . . I’ve had enough of it. Sheer, unadulterated crap. He’s an economic liberal and a social one. And he’s tried to have it both ways on the surge and Iraq as well, so he’s at best uncommitted in the area of national defense and the war on terror. In my opinion Romney is the most liberal candidate left in the field.
Good article. Talking Points Radio has sold out conservatism. They are liars and hypocrites. There is the bitter sweet knowledge that their plans backfired and we might end up with McCain, then President Hillary and finally, the Fairness Doctrine.
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