Would you advocate third party or stay home if Huckabee is the candidate?

October 28,2007 | Ebmiller

[ebmiller]

There is great hostility to Govenor Huckabee by many freepers. Since Rasmussen is including Huckabee in the daily tracking poll, it seems he is gaining some traction. I am curious since many on this site have grave doubts about a Huckabee presidency, how many would go to a third party or would just stay home?

[Plains Drifter]

Agreed!!!!!!

[jwalsh07]

The only candidate I won’t vote for is Rudy.

[Harvey105]

Gee, I don’t know that I’ve ever been complimented before by being called a curmudgeon.

Thanks DDM

[AmericaUnited]

I said little difference between the CANDIDATES

You are basically a liar since you pick a few positions to compare and then on that basis say there is little difference. BS!

[AmericaUnited]

am voting on the ISSUES, not for a fancy Madison Avenue designer label... NON-NEGOTIABLE issues: 1. War. 2. Border. 3. Terrorism. 4. 2nd Amendment.

Giuliani can go to hell...

Only a flaming IDIOT would help elect someone (any RAT) who is against their 4 NON-NEGOTIABLE issues, instead of someone who is a big winner on two of them, such as Giulini with the war and terrorism.

[Tribune7]

I will vote for ANY GOP candidate over Hillary including Paul.

[BillyBoy]

>> A pro-illegals nominee ? Fuhgeddaboutit. <<

Huckabee has dropped his past support for illegal aliens and has now come out AGAINST the Senate amnesty proposal and supported a fence. Is that a flip-flop? Yep. And your guy Fred has done exactly the same thing. Until 2007, Fred favored giving "aspirations of citizenship" to illegals and voted for one of the 90s era mini-amnesties to legalize nearly one million illegal aliens when he was in the Senate.

Obviously, if Huckabee's "past record" on illegal aliens makes him unacceptable, the fact Fred voted against common sense immigration to crack down on illegals and favored "aspiriations of citizenship" for them(ultimately earning a lifetime "D" rating on "Preventing Illegal Alien Amnesties) means we should vote "third party" if he's the nominee.

Oh, I forgot. Your "deal breaker" issues don't apply to Fred.

[BillyBoy]

Freepers don't like Huckabee? Hmmm.

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Once Again, a Little Rock From Arkansas [Gov Huckabee and the FR Inaugural Ball]
Washington Post ^ | Sunday, January 16, 2005 | Richard Leiby
Posted on 01/17/2005 4:10:05 PM CST by Jim Robinson
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/13226841322684/posts

He’s a Preacher! He’s From Hope! (Gov. Huckabee, Free Republic W2 Inaugural Ball article)
Washingtonian Online - Capital Comment ^ | January 2005 | SUZI PARKER
Posted on 01/02/2005 9:02:42 PM CST by tgslTakoma
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/13127031322684/posts

ANNOUNCING THE FREE REPUBLIC W2 INAUGURAL BALL, FEATURING GOV HUCKABEE AND CAPITOL OFFENSE
Free Republic W2 Inaugural Ball ^
Posted on 01/18/2005 1:18:17 PM CST by Jim Robinson. [history]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/12922461322684/posts

Freeper Governor Huckabee's "Tax Me More Fund" tops $1,000 with $200 donation
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette ^ | 5JAN 01 | BILL SIMMONS
Posted on 01/05/2002 1:06:07 PM CST by DCBryan1
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/6023051322684/posts

Arkansas - Freeper Governor Mike Huckabee reelected
Associated Press | November 5, 2002
Posted on 11/06/2002 12:29:32 AM CST by HAL9000
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/7833091322684/posts

Freeper Gov. Huckabee (R-Arkansas) wins Arkansas Republican primary 85% +
www.kark.com ^ | 21 MAY 02 | DCBryan1
Posted on 05/21/2002 10:41:42 PM CDT by DCBryan1
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/6873641322684/posts

FR Inaugural Ball Pictures for ***Governor Huckabee***
Source: Self (with nudging from CAL)
Posted on 01/28/2001 21:04:24 PST by Gracey
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3a74f9d80c0e.htm

Huckabee's Knees Need Surgeries After Freeper Inaugural Ball
INAUGURAL BALL, DANCING
Source: Donrey News
Posted on 01/22/2001 23:52:23 PST by HAL9000
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3a6d38370b7d.htm

FREEPER INAUGURAL BALL MESSAGE TO FREEPERS FROM ***GOVERNOR MIKE HUCKABEE***
Source: e-mail
Published: 1/22/01 Author: Governor Mike Huckabee
Posted on 01/22/2001 18:32:01 PST by Clinton's a liar
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3a6ced21441d.htm

Arkansas Gov. Huckabee’s ‘Tax Me More Fund’ Spreads
News Max ^ | Jan. 23, 2002 | Dave Eberhart
Posted on 01/22/2002 9:19:46 PM CST by concerned about politics
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/6137661322684/posts

Freeper Governor Mike Huckabee on the 'Tax Me More' Fund
Governor's Electronic Message System (GEMS) ^ | December 4, 2001 | Governor Mike Huckabee -- Arkansas
Posted on 12/04/2001 12:19:43 PM CST by Sloth
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/5835691322684/posts

Gov. Huckabee's thank you letter to Free Republic
Source: Personal letter from Governor Huckabee
Posted on 02/28/2001 07:05:41 PST by Taxman
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3a9d13c55b87

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Click on those threads and you'll see Governor Huckabee working hand-and-hand with FR and members having nothing but praise and support that Huckabee was such a good friend of our forum. He was utterly worshipped here for mocking liberal beliefs that people don't mind being taxed into obivion by coming up with the name "Tax Me More" fund. He was even given the nickname "the freeper Governor" as an honor for being the only Governor in the nation to be actively involved with FR. This was 2005, the Huckster had already been Governor of Arkansas for NINE YEARS at the time.

Amazing how NOBODY on this forum pointed out what an awful, evil, RINO, nanny-state, illegal alien loving, Clintonite governor he was when the guy was actually IN office, eh? You'd think with such a horrid RINOish record, JimRob wouldn't want him anywhere near our event. After all, some on this forum are now saying they wouldn't even vote for him over the Hilderbeast.

Lots of retconning going on here on FR.

[Travis McGee]

That’s an ugly choice you propose. But I guess you’re right.

[spectre]

You won't have to vote for him.

He's going to have to get a real job soon.

sw

[Harvey105]

Have you ever heard of Dale Carnegie? He might be able to teach something about winning people over to your way of thinking. Whether you could learn is another story.

I picked the issues that are important to me and there is little difference.

[Harvey105]

I used to have reasonably high opinions of Huckabee, but lately that has changed.

Rudy was a good mayor and Huckabee did pretty good as governor, neither will earn my vote — based on their stance on the most important issues to me — for president.

[Harvey105]

They want our money. They want our vote. But if they don’t care what we think, why in the hell should we vote for them?

[TigersEye]

What is a Huckabee?

[arthurus]

I would never vote for a third party. I would also never vote for Giuliani. If we have a candidate with a phony veneer of Social Conservatism and Fiscal Conservatism we do not destroy the Conservative element in the Republican party because it will be generally understood that the candidate who had to put on a fake Conservative Suit had to appeal to conservatives in recognition that liberalism will lose him critical support for the administration if he wins the election. If Giuliani wins the nomination and the election as the neon-lit Liberal that he is, it will show that conservatives no longer have ANY influence in the party. If he wins the nomination but loses the election it will show once again that a Republican MUST work for the Conservative vote.

If any of these other half baked Conservatives wins it shows we still have the ultimate say-so in the party and the new president will have to do what he must to keep Conservative support.

A third party effort will have a result similar to electing Giuliani. Conservatives will have taken themselves out of the party and out of influence. From that point on Conservatives will be locked into third party mode and/or irrelevance. They will have lost any influence they might have had on a major party for a lo-o-o-ong time.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

Only a flaming IDIOT would help elect someone (any RAT) who is against their 4 NON-NEGOTIABLE issues, instead of someone who is a big winner on two of them, such as Giulini with the war and terrorism.

You cannot separate the war and terrorism with borders and the 2nd Amendment...

We have a CONSTUTIONAL RIGHT to protect ourselves and the federal government has a CONSTITUTIONAL DUTY to protect the states from invasion and secure our RIGHTS...

Julie-Annie does neither...

MY CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS DO NOT END AT THE NEW YORK CITY LIMITS!

[PhilCollins]

Thanks for the post. I’m surprised that any freeper would consider not voting for Huckabee, if he’s the nominee. His site states that his most important issue is securing the border and deporting illegals. He also states that he’s pro-fairtax, pro-life, pro-gun rights, and anti-gay marriage. Two of the last three republican presidents were governors. Huckabee was a governor longer than Bush & Romney, combined.

[Tax-chick]

I like some things about Huckabee: Fair Tax, pro-gun, pro-life. I don’t like some other things: Nanny-state, open borders.

I don’t have to decide, categorically, about him now, because I’ll have other choices in the primary.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Huckabee is the Southern Precious Willard. Why would I support someone like that ? Why would any Conservative in good conscience ? He can’t use some excuse that he was “pandering” to a liberal constituency, either. His record was piss-poor.

[CrosscutSaw]

Any one of the Republican candidates running would be better than our current president and would certainly be infinitely better than Obama or Hillary or Edwards anyway.

I’d vote for Huckabee if he were the GOP nominee.