Posted on 02/01/2009 12:16:20 PM PST by Peter Andrew Conservative
Blackwell through HIS support to Steele. Dawson is the true Country Club Republican in every sense of the word. That you are unwilling to even give Steele a chance when you know nothing of how he is going to do says a lot more about you than it does Michael Steele.. and, I suspect, it is attitudes, like your’s here, that drives people away from the Republican party.
We damned well BETTER have a big tent.... because the math doesn’t add up otherwise, we cannot win with just the South, and with Barr causing McCain to lose in NC and Georgia even being close this year we are starting to lose ground there as well... people are tired of the carping and the my-way-or-highway attitudes.
The Fairtax must be a "socialist" nanny-state plan or else Huckabee wouldn't support it. Huck's mockery of the liberals tax the rich schemes with his "tax me more fund" (hailed on FR at the time he was governor). Obviously socialist. His longtime opposition to McCain-Feingold, calling it a disaster (while Fred Thompson was eagerly cheering on the plan)? Socialist. His outspoken support for Sarah Palin? Socialist. Calls for the Senate to vote down the Tim Geithner nomination? Socialist. Cutting taxes 92 times in Arkansas? Socialist. And Duncan Hunter must be a HUGE hard-core fan of socialism, seeing as how he personally ENDORSED Huckabee after dropping of the primary.
Yes sir, Huckabee never was a conservative. Everyone was lying about him for 8 years or just totally misled by his evil socialist agenda for a DECADE (sorta like how Bush "tricked" all those Dems into voting for the Iraq War). Really dense conservatives, took 'em 10+ years to figure out Huck's evil socialist nanny state plans. Thank God it was revealed that he was "socialist" the moment his presidential campaign got in the way of Fred Thompson's "potential" candidacy.
100% Pro-life, pro-family, pro-gun, abolish the IRS, repeal McCain-Feingold, win the WOT, secure the borders, nothing remotely conservative about that platform.
Perhaps you should try DU, since their ideas about 180o degrees away from Huckabee's "liberal" plans.
Maybe you history revisionists can start claiming Sarah Palin is a "big government Clinton-loving marxist and always has been" in 2012. Who knows, she could get in the way of your favorite candidate's plans.
comment upthread that Steele questioners were trolls
i ain’t no troll
but am part Irish...Sullivan Orange ...ducking PROVO incoming
He has other people on this thread just as worked up without one iota of actual knowledge of how Steele is going to be... or without a brain cell to clue them in that without the NE and the West people can take their attitudes and chuck them because we can not win... and third parties are NOT the solution! They are the problem... Bob Barr cost us NC and Indiana, ACORN cost us Ohio and Florida... and Bob Barr was NOT a conservative — if the people who voted for the jerk actually listened to HIM!!!!!!!!
He didn’t join it.
He co-founded it.
thank you.
God bless.
he has plenty credibility even if you unlike he and I
like Steele
Steele is not the right direction to me
I’m Southern.
We don’t do condescension.
If you think abolishing the IRS, overturning Roe v. Wade, repealing McCain-Feingold, winning the WOT, etc., are ideas that should be “flushed”, then you should indeed head off to DU. Those are conservative ideas whether you want to admit it or not. Huckabee has stood for those ideas for years. If you don’t agree with them, then you should be out cheerleading for Hussein Obama.
You must miss Howlin on dark days....you sound like her.
He sure has a funny way of showing it. And if you called me an Obama cheerleader to my face, I would wipe upthe place with you.
“This is a ridiculous article.”
..and poorly thought out. To deduce that the WSJ meant Steele’s pick was a “hard move to the left” from that WSJ quote is simply incorrect.
I say we give Steele a chance. I supported him before he won. I like his 80/20 reasoning.
So, as a member of this forum in 2005, you vocally opposed when "socialist" Mike Huckabee was the keynote event used to promote the FR inagueral ball in Jan. 2005, right? How could you stand signing up for a forum that is promoting a "liberal" like Huckabee?
Too bad NONE of you Huckabee hating pukes "discovered" he was liberal until 2008. You credbility is ZERO. If FR had an invited an actual "liberal" RINO Governor (Schwartezenegger, Whitman, etc.) to headline an event for this forum in 2005, you better believe I would have raised HELL about it.
Not one of you hypocrites CLAIMED Huckabee was a "liberal" until the moment he ran for President. In 2005 as a sitting Governor he was rightly seen as a solid conservative. After LEAVING office, suddenly he's a "socialist"
What a joke. Go to DU to spew your garbage about how we need to reject conservative values.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/01/31/steele-focused-critical-races-rebuilding-gop/
BUT -- if the Dem machine folks are behind it, that's because they are afraid, as they are of Palin.
It's called "astroturfing."
Cheers!
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