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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People rarely vote for a ticket because of the VP candidate.
There is no way I will ever vote for Rudy or Mitt. I will go third party if they are on the ticket.
OK, great point. You've just changed my mind.
I'm excited, let me go grab my f'ing checkbook and clear my calendar for all the blogging and volunteering and letter writing.
Let me translate this for you in pictures......
Perot gave us Clinton but Bush gave us Perot. Lesson: Don’t p-off the base.
true enough. But I for one will not vote for a ticket with the Huckster and Nurse Judy spending their billions of hours of free time to take up their pet cause of “preventative health” and work on fast food taxes, national smoker bans, and sheeple control.
I agree...Ron Paul is the likely 3rd party candidate.
A Giuliani-Huckabee ticket would be the dream ticket for supporters of amnesty for illegals, though.
These evangelical and Christian groups are far wiser than they are given credit. Huckabee is surging because all people know about him is that he was a former minister and a pro-life governor from Arkansas.
There is only one candidate in the GOP field that can unite the Republican party, excite the base and crush Hillary in the general election. The media know this, that’s the reason for the deflection campaign and diminishing of this candidate. The Christians and Evangelicals also know this and they need to get behind him in a big way, sooner, rather than later.
Duncan Hunter has the credentials, the knowledge, expertise, and a history of doing what’s right and advancing Christian and conservative principles. I always sit out the primaries and I wish I had done the same for this one. Knowing what I know, I just don’t see how I can cast a vote for any other candidate in the field. Usually, I would just vote for whomever the Republicans nominated and that was that. I suppose, ignorance truly is bliss, because knowledge, always begs greater responsibility.
Huckesterbee is a hick who has no real world experience.
WE are at war and will be for years to come. This guy knows nothing about the military nor national security.
For those who are holding out for this hick or that elderly anti war idiot, L Ron Paul better get a grip.
Thankfully those two will not be on the ticket.
Those who sit at home or vote third party will have Hillary or Obama.
Those who have expressed those thoughts of sitting home
or third party
are known on FR and you have forfeited your right to
bitch if they come to collect your gun, or raise your taxes, and take away your health insurance.
Exactly. If the Clintons follow the “do what works” philosophy, they’ll hope for/instigate a third conservative party. That’s how Willy got elected in 92.
But isn’t the problem here, that having Giuliani in is really little different from having Hillary in? Someone has to break the chain and stop sending Democrat-lite candidates into office on the republican ticket.
I would hardly refer to Perot as a conservative nor his party as such. Any conservative who voted for him, got burned, since he all but endorsed Clinton and said he felt he would get the job done.
ping... is he conservative or not?
ping... is he conservative or not?
I HAVE THE ANSWER, it`s easy....
If people would just stop supporting Rudy G and declare that he is simply not fit for office, then there is no longer a problem! It is that easy!
Even those that go on record as saying they will support Rudy if he is the guy,
that is also a form of support that only helps Rudy now.
ping... is he conservative or not?
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