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Huckabee stirs up third-party fear
The Washington Times ^
| October 29, 2007
| Ralph Z. Hallow
Posted on 10/29/2007 10:34:33 AM PDT by Eric Blair 2084
A bitter fight is taking place behind the scenes over Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee.
Influential conservatives are clashing over whether Mr. Huckabee is capable of keeping evangelicals from fleeing the GOP to form a third party or if he's too liberal fiscally for the Republican electorate.
The battle is bubbling into the public arena, fueled by fears that a three-way race could hand the presidency to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton or another Democrat, and by murmurs of Mr. Huckabee as a vice-presidential candidate on the party's ticket.
"We called him a pro-life, pro-gun liberal, when I was in the state legislature and he was governor," said Randy Minton, chairman of the Arkansas chapter of Phyllis Schlafly's national Eagle Forum.
Mr. Minton voices the concerns of many conservatives that while Mr. Huckabee governed as a social conservative in opposing abortion and same-sex "marriage," he was a treacherous liberal on taxes, social welfare spending and illegal immigration.
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TOPICS: Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: arkansas; huckabee; immigration; taxes
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To: Eric Blair 2084
This is Huckabee’s payback to the Clintons.
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posted on
10/29/2007 10:36:35 AM PDT
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Brilliant
To: Eric Blair 2084
He will have a heck of a lot easier time then Rino Rudy McRomney.
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posted on
10/29/2007 10:37:06 AM PDT
by
Hydroshock
("The Constitution should be taken like mountain whiskey -- undiluted and untaxed." - Sam Ervin)
To: AuntB; pissant; OB1kNOb; Politicalmom; SoConPubbie; Esther Ruth; pandoraou812; gidget7; 383rr; ...
Retire the liberal tax raising, open border, algore loving, nanny state Huckster Ping
The liberal MSM must really think Social Conservatives are stupid. They keep pitching and pimping the Huckster hoping somebody will buy.
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posted on
10/29/2007 10:37:38 AM PDT
by
Eric Blair 2084
(Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms shouldn't be a federal agency...it should be a convenience store.)
To: Eric Blair 2084
"We called him a pro-life, pro-gun liberal, when I was in the state legislature and he was governor," said Randy Minton, chairman of the Arkansas chapter of Phyllis Schlafly's national Eagle Forum. Mr. Minton voices the concerns of many conservatives that while Mr. Huckabee governed as a social conservative in opposing abortion and same-sex "marriage," he was a treacherous liberal on taxes, social welfare spending and illegal immigration.They are correct.
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posted on
10/29/2007 10:37:55 AM PDT
by
OB1kNOb
(Support Duncan Hunter for the 2008 GOP presidential nominee. He is THE conservative candidate!!)
To: Hydroshock
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posted on
10/29/2007 10:38:22 AM PDT
by
Eric Blair 2084
(Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms shouldn't be a federal agency...it should be a convenience store.)
To: Eric Blair 2084
The only way Hillary! can win is if the anti-Hillary! vote is split in a three-way race. Expect the Round-Heeled Media to do everything it can to make sure this happens.
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posted on
10/29/2007 10:38:28 AM PDT
by
gridlock
(ELIMINATE PERVERSE INCENTIVES)
To: Eric Blair 2084
Keeping the party together.
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posted on
10/29/2007 10:39:41 AM PDT
by
Hydroshock
("The Constitution should be taken like mountain whiskey -- undiluted and untaxed." - Sam Ervin)
To: Eric Blair 2084
I told you Huckabee was Clinton Political brother!:)
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posted on
10/29/2007 10:39:55 AM PDT
by
restornu
(Improve The Shining Moment! Don't let them pass you by...PRESS FORWARD MITT!)
To: Eric Blair 2084
Don’t ya just love the name tags?
Either Huckabee is with us or against us.
I believe he is against us.
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posted on
10/29/2007 10:40:34 AM PDT
by
freekitty
((May the eagles long fly our beautiful and free American sky.))
To: Eric Blair 2084
Except for the taxes, sounds like President Bush.
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posted on
10/29/2007 10:40:44 AM PDT
by
BGHater
(Bread and Circuses)
To: Eric Blair 2084
I don’t think Huckabee will be the candidate a third party will want.
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posted on
10/29/2007 10:41:10 AM PDT
by
TommyDale
(Never forget the Republicans who voted for illegal immigrant amnesty in 2007!)
To: Eric Blair 2084
I’ll vote for Mr. Huckabee if he’s the Republican nominee for president.
Although without much enthusiasm.
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posted on
10/29/2007 10:42:37 AM PDT
by
sitetest
(If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
To: Eric Blair 2084
“a pro-life, pro-gun liberal”
Yup.
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posted on
10/29/2007 10:42:49 AM PDT
by
pissant
(Duncan Hunter: Warrior, Statesman, Conservative)
To: dano1; BillyBoy
Courtesy ping.
It's nothing personal. Mike seems like a nice guy. We all wish him much health and luck in his retirement and private life. I'll pitch in for his retirement party and his band can play. Of course I won't be able to go myself since he kicked smokers out of the restaurants.
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posted on
10/29/2007 10:44:42 AM PDT
by
Eric Blair 2084
(Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms shouldn't be a federal agency...it should be a convenience store.)
To: BGHater
Pres. Bush signed a 10 year massive tax cut. Mike’s record as a fiscal conservative is a disgrace.
But as “compassionate conservatives” (translation: GOP liberalism) he could probably give Jorge a run for his money on immigration.
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posted on
10/29/2007 10:47:42 AM PDT
by
Eric Blair 2084
(Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms shouldn't be a federal agency...it should be a convenience store.)
To: sitetest
Ill vote for Mr. Huckabee if hes the Republican nominee for president. Nope, will not drink the grape cool-aide.
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posted on
10/29/2007 10:48:52 AM PDT
by
org.whodat
(What's the difference between a Democrat and a republican????)
To: TommyDale
The fear now is that the GOP will encourage Rudy if he wins the GOP nomination to make Huckabee the VP on the ticket in order to keep the socons in the party.
Of course, what this will really do, is guarantee that both the socon and libertarian wings of the party will hate the ticket. Socons won’t vote for a baby killer and libertarians won’t vote for a nanny state, smoker banning, serial tax raising, 3rd world immigration welfare state pusher like Huckabee.
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posted on
10/29/2007 10:51:49 AM PDT
by
Eric Blair 2084
(Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms shouldn't be a federal agency...it should be a convenience store.)
To: Hydroshock
Well, suppose either Mitt or Rudy win the nomination and then pick Mike as VP??? Personally, that would be a pretty strong ticket. This constant picking at our candidates fails to take into consideration the absolute horror, of the Hildabeast winning with huge down ticket pick ups for the socialist pacifist Dems in ‘08. Please stop the conspiracy thinking. No Dem is better than any of our top 5 tier candidates for the WH. When the Gop voters finally understand this, we will actually beat Her Highness. Our guy has to win a national election. Remember? He has to get 273 electoral votes from somewhere.
To: Eric Blair 2084
Huckabee can take his open borders and . . .
I won’t vote for abortion or open borders, ever.
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posted on
10/29/2007 10:52:21 AM PDT
by
donna
(They hand off my culture & citizenship to criminals & then call me racist for objecting?)
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