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.
GOP_Lady,
This is the second time you have failed to back up
the tripe you posted.
Your credibility approaches zero.
Go away, pest.
Not if I don’t agree with them on my most important issues.
About Asia, China...
Romney wanted us to kiss up to China and give them favored nation status...
Because he was making big bucks trading with them...
Congressman Duncan Hunter blew the whistle on him...
So much for Romney’s supposed “patriotism”
Hello, GOP_Lady,
Great to hear from you.
That was the third opportunity for you to demonstrate
that you are not a now-proven liar, by claiming that
Romney was the ONLY Presidential candidate who discussed
“the U.S. being competitive internationally..
with respect to Asia.”.
Not a single one of the other candidates ever mentioned
that during the months of campaigning across America,
did they?
No wonder a few of you cultist Obama-RomneyBOTs
invariably end up degenerating into hate-filled postings,
and foul mouths which so represents Romney.
But .... but that would mean Mitt Romney took both
sides of an issue. How could it be?
Good for Hunter.
No wonder Romney “stole” his fence in a Romney ad.
More vindictiveness as only Romney can deliver it.
Huckabee ran for the sole purpose of taking Mitt out.
ROFL! Only the besotted MittBots would think that he was actually important enough for someone to spend millions to run against him just to “take him out.”
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Actually, if that WAS true...
(which of course it’s not)
it didnt take millions to take Romney out...
Huckabee spent very little...
He recycled hiS signs from one state to another and had few TV ads...
while Romney spent hundreds of millions and still lost...
Romney had hundreds of PAID volunteers...
Huckabee had a handful of modestly paid staff and many enthusiastic volunteers...
The Huckabee supporters believed in their product...
The RomneyBots still dont know what they believe...
Huck is doing the work Christians don’t want to do.
Plus the Huckabee supporters have moved on with their lives...
The RomneyBots are stuck in a time warp...
Hey, Valentino is gone...
Get over it...
You don’t understand! Huck is just a MORTAL MAN! Idols are unforgettable.
Keep Mitt ditch the Huck.
I like Mitt...Huck is just overwith.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Romney mustnt be my idol then...
I can forget him for days at a time...
Until some MittNittWitt starts worshiping him that is...
(SIGH)
Remember BeatleMania ?????
Yeah, it’s like that...
But worse...
I am assuming the Huckster is not going to follow Lamar!’s example and become a distinguished senator from his home state? Somebody needs to explain to him the reality of his situation; the oval office is beyond him.
Amen...
Sorry bud, you need to get over it.
MR LOST because he is a liberal.
What needs to happen is for you and your ilk to stop blaming Christians/ evangelicals and look in the mirror of liberalism.
MR is and has always been a liberal until he declared for the presidency. Sorry but the people saw him for who he is and said NO.
What do you think he's been doing over the last 9 months?
http://www.freestrongamerica.com/
That's the trouble with having TWO Messiahs in ONE election - ONE of them loses...
Well, then the people have VOTED Mitt ROmney off of
conservative island. He must go.
Look buddy, no presidential candidate outside of the Founders, military generals who have become president (Eisenhower) and sitting VPs (Nixon and Bush I) had any real foreign policy experience. There's a reason why advisers and the State Dept was created. Governors are much better suited at mastering foreign policy because they're the head of their state. So spare me this non-sequitur argument.
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