Posted on 11/23/2008 10:37:09 AM PST by foutsc
I think Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney are both good men, and they both need to withdraw from Republican presidential politics. The running gun battles between the Huck and Mitt camps are not healthy for the conservative movement. Huck is a slick, smiling gut-fighter who easily lapses into thinly disguised anti-Mormon conceit and liberal tinged populism. Mitt is a wildly successful businessman who is also an ideological chameleon. I am tired of the bickering between these two men and their fervid supporters. Like matches and gasoline, each man is good in his own way, but mixed together they cause a conflagration that can only damage the conservative movement. And the arguments that spring up around this dreadful duo traffic in religion and personality rather than substantive issues. The ongoing argument has devolved into a third-world political mudball fight where the faithful worship their political idol and smear and demean the opponent. We need substantive debates on core issues, not personality contests. And these two shape-shifters and their cohorts have generated light and heat and sparks but very little substance. And for this reason I also believe we need to take a cold-eyed view of Sarah Palin. She is a woman of great accomplishment, but we need to drop the mythology and ask if she really has the foreign policy credentials to be president. Let's be honest, president Bush had no foreign policy experience, and I think that worked against him and the nation. President-Elect Obama does not, but it remains to be seen how that will work out. If it works out well for him, then Sarah Palin can make a case for herself by pointing to President Obama's success in spite of his inexperience. She can then make a case based on judgment and her Alaska record, which I think would put her in good stead. We need to drop the politics of personality and judge our candidates on the merits of their ideas and experience.
Don’t blame me - I voted for McCain/Palin. I would not have voted for Romney, though. And not just because he’s a Mormon.
Don’t blame me - I voted for McCain/Palin. I would not have voted for Romney, though. And not just because he’s a Mormon.
New tag...
I don't see a future for the GOP, especially if some of us want GOVERNMENT in their homes. We need SMALL GOVERNMENT, FISCAL, STATES RIGHTS Conservativism, not BIG GOVERNMENT CONSERVATIVISM!.
I get the same feeling about Huckabee...the word ‘Shyster’ keeps coming to mind.
Neither is a conservative, so they just need to go away like all the other RINOs.
Being well grounded in OUR culture, and beliving in it is the most important trait of someone being successful in foreign policy. This is what i see in Sarah.
Being too “experienced” always seems to mean,, see it their way,, care more about them than the USA,,etc.
In the Marines someone who spent too much time in China was referred to as having “gone asiatic”,, (read,, sorta crazy) This is what i see in Bill Richardson, Half-bright, Obama, Algore,,Rham Emmanuel,,,etc,,, They are basically foreigners now as a practical matter.
Honesty,,and knowing who you are is damn good protection against any foreign nations crappola.
PT Barnum said you cant cheat an honest man.
Another blog containing someone’s opinion — that’s fine.
But, I sure wish it was going to be President Romney on January 20, 2009. We sure could use all of his expertise at this time. He was the most experienced candidate.
Who said I was for Big Government Conservatism?
Again, I’m not a Mitt fan in particular, but do you think Mitt might have had a better chance against the Obamination than McLAME did?
And now that the Mitt hating connivers like Huckabee got their way, do you think we should be happy with the BIG GOVERNMENT COMMUNISM we are going to get?
Has Mitt ever said anything that puts him at odds with the moves to internationalize our financial system more and more?
He would be leading the charge into an internationalist new world order, as long as investment bankers remained safe.
Money is important,, very very important. But he strikes me as willing to sacrifice anything as long as it improves wall streets bottom line.
I’m glad you voted for McCain, but would you rather have been able to vote for someone who actually had the ability to successfully campaign against and beat a communist?
Ronald Reagan wasn't a conservative either...at first.
“Funny, you would never vote for a muslim....but many who would never vote for a Mormon either may have in fact helped elect a muslim.”
Eeevil Evangelicals stomped on Messiah Mitt and cost us the election. What a hoot!
I was Mormon. My family are Mormons. Would never vote for Mitt, because he’s just another stereotypical politician.
I like Huck’s TV show.
The media tell us he is, so it must be true.
I’m know little about the international financial system, but I do know that Mitt Romney has continually talked about the U.S. being competitive internationally. In fact, he was the only candidate to discuss this with respect to Asia.
So.
He was when he garnered the support of conservatives and he never tried to deceive anyone as to what he was at any time.
Neither of these RINOs is a conservative. When and if they demonstrate that they are (over a significant period of time) then conservatives might take another look.
“I say Palin and Duncan Hunter are.”
I don’t trust either man...... and agree with this article... they both ran, they both lost, they both need to go away... along with all the other also-rans.
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