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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Maybe a “compassionate conservative”, whatever that means. :) After all, doesn’t that diction more than imply most conservatives aren’t compassionate when that adjective is used as a qualifier?
Fair enough, but doesn’t Rudy think Ginsberg is a just swell on the SCOTUS? I think his supporting the Liberal over Pataki for governor speaks volumes about whom we could trust him to appoint to the SCOTUS.
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If this came from another writer I would be worried, but ole ralph gets it right about as often as lil dick morris.
But “influential conservatives” don’t have a care in the world about the 3rd party that is inevitable and will materialize if Giuliani wins the nomination. ROFLOL! Must be all those “influential conservatives” are actually Country Club liberals who are not going to have “their” party stolen by some hayseed from Arkansas! And no, I think Huckabee is ALMOST as bad a candidate as Giuliani although he is to the right of Rudy IMO.
The problem here is people like you who support liberals like Rudy and Romney.
You people are so obsessed with running your precious liberal against Hillary, and you're already pointing fingers at others because you know either of your liberals would lose to her.
If you're not supporting a conservative, you're part of the problem!
Fine. My complaints will be about a Republican Party that puts me in the position that I cannot vote for their candidate.
Huckame running. Something foul in the air.
I think people like this real problem is their sense of ‘entitlement’: that THE REPUBLICAN PARTY is “owed” our vote, not that they have to ‘earn’ it: You see we ‘costs’ the Republicans the presidentcy becuase we didn’t say ok, go marching to the polls, and GIVE our vote to the Republicans (Presidential)!
SHOVE IT: PARTY HACKS (and paid consultants); You must EARN my vote, you are OWED Nothing, in fact you owe me, as a voter.
I for one will stick with the republican party this time out even if they put Rudy G. in. Republican’s best hope is for a Romney ticket with either Duncan Hunter or John McCain as the VP.
Any third party talk is premature for this election. What I will say, is that if Rudy G. gets it, I would then be willing to evaluate a new truly viable party, and if Rudy wins the Presidency it will be game time as far as scrutinization of Rudy G’s presidency and IMO Rudy will go hard left on social issues once elected. This is what worries me. I think Rudy G. will force the third party thing in the following years, and will discourage the faithful and hurt the Repubs over all.
Finally, IMHO, anyone who says, "I will NEVER vote for (fill-in-the-blank 'non-100%-perfect' Republican) and will vote third party instead" when it means helping install Hillary in the White House with a Dem Congress should be taken out behind the woodshed and beaten severely with a tire tool. If you'd do that to your country, don't call yourself an American.
Huckabee is a joke with no punchline.
My vote goes to Hunter or Thompson period.I won’t vote for lib-lite rooooty under any circumstances and if the beast gets in well that would be the fault of the power brokers would it not? The republican party needs to quit running these rinos and run conservatives.Quit pissing off/on the base.
Is this asking too much from a "R" candidate? I think not. So let the RINOs put these guys up & watch them lose. In fact, I believe this is just what these globalist/CFR/ Trilateralist want.
Romney’s better on fiscal responsibility, better on illegal immigrants, better on government interference in your private lives.
Romney gains nothing from Huckabee. Romney’s already “acceptable” to the evangelicals, and if he needs a southernor to help out he’d be better off with Fred Thompson, or someone else.
Rudy might pick Huckabee for the “social conservative” help, but I don’t think it would help much, and otherwise they are exact opposites who shouldn’t get along well and I’d rather have a VP that isn’t exactly opposite the President.
Rudy would be better off picking Duncan Hunter as VP, they have more in common and it might just get the conservatives back.
You’re probably better off talking to ob. He knows Mike personally I don’t.
If you are in e-mail contact with Mike, please do some of us a favor and tell him that since he kicked smokers out of restaurants in Arkansas and wants to do the same nationally, the smokers are now doing their best to keep him out of the White House. Policies have consequences, and that one was very personal and rude.
Junk science, social engineering, bogus studies and private property abuse are not conservative principles.
You still have to have money to run in the election and next year’s election will be OUTRAGEOUSLY expensive...Perot had money, remember? Huckabee or any of these other guys who think they can go 3rd party just flat out won’t get far without a Soros type behind them...Face it, we’re still a 2-party system for the foreseeable future and next year could be a horrific election if we don’t get our collective GOPers together and decide if we want to beat the Dems who HATE our military WHILE WE ARE AT WAR~!
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