Posted on 11/28/2007 1:52:17 PM PST by Dane
It's amazing, Mike Huckabee is one of the few politicians who would give the time of day to FR,
Gov. Huckabee's Thank you Letter to FReeper
and yet by some on FR they in mindless hyperbolic posts basically compare him to the plague.
JMO, some FReepers prove the axioms of "fair weather friends" and "no good deed goes unpunished" and also "watch your back", very true.
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No, DCP deleted his profile after scores of freepers called him on his self-definition as 'hopelessly liberal on illegals' therein. That is why I used the words 'vanishing profile'.
Illegal immigration is the one subject that almost everyone on
FreeRepublic agrees on, and Mike Huckabee disagrees on.
“Why should we be made to suffer to assuage your conscience”
Awe, is the poor little conservative worried about showing a little compassion for a child?
Wouldn’t want to save a kid from suffering for the sins of her parents, now would we?
Yes, please do speak for us FreeRepublic posters who support Huckabee.
Poor judgement, naiveté, inexperience, stubbornness, etc.. He has made some minor mistakes in his career. But he's smart and he's a fast learner. I think he'll avoid making those mistakes again. (He'll make new ones!)
One of his best qualities is also one of his worst: his loyalty to his staff and friends. He's like President Bush with Alberto Gonzales, for example.
Aw, shucks... Thanks KC.
One other point about the ‘ethical questions’ -
Some of his mistakes were his own fault, but a lot of them were manufactured by the opposition. We do have leftists in Arkansas, and they have relentlessly attacked Huckabee.
Aww... is the poor little stealth-troll liberal PO'ed at having their liberal agenda exposed for the law subverting crap that it is?
Tough. If you don't like this country and it's immigration policies, you are free to leave...
‘JMO, some FReepers prove the axioms of “fair weather friends” and “no good deed goes unpunished” and also “watch your back”, very true.’
Huckabees position on illegal immigration and how to handle it causes me to watch my own back, more so than ever before.
Because our elected officials, like Huckabee, won’t.
Yes, its nice he addressed Free Republic directly. But that doesn’t change the fact his views are pretty screwed up on a couple of topics many freepers find the most important in the coming campaign.
Fixed it for you.
Also, only Huckabee and John McCain have endorsed the discredited cap-and-trade system to limit global-warming emissions that has proved a fiasco in Europe. http://www.opinionjournal.com/diary/?id=110010782
That's not what I saw.
Mitt had a miserable night. He sounded like a weasely politician. "I have 2 guns - well, they're actually my son's." "I'll consult with advisors on waterboarding." "I believe the Bible is the Word of God (that wasn't the question - rigged as it was)."
The only question he answered firmly was his attack on Rudy about sanctuary cities. But then Rudy was immediately able to undermine any credibility on immigration that Mitt had just appeared to project.
And don't get me started on Huckabee. He answered exactly 2 questions well. One was merely a word-for-word repeat of Duncan Hunter's response to the planted gay general question. (When the general's mike went out I wish ANY of the candidates would have said "Anderson, will you please get off the gay general?") The other good Huckabee response was on the Bible question. It was a great ecumenical response to a thorny theological question.
Based on that performance, I wholeheartedly support Mike Huckabee for First Chaplain. But his compassionate conservative response on immigration was horrible. I'm sure that some illegal alien children might work hard to achieve academically. So what! They shouldn't be allowed to compete for scholarships that would otherwise go to Americans. I even resent using tax dollars to educate illegal aliens in public schools to begin with!
Rudy was even worse on immigration. "I was helping to combat crime in NYC by allowing illegals to attend school and receive health care." How? You're fighting crime by condoning other illegal activiy?
Rudy had many other bad moments in the debate. In fact, the entire night was a series of flailing poor answers by Rudy. Especially on 2nd Amendment rights and immigration, but even the softball Red Sox question elicited a weak response. I'm not a Rudy fan, but I have never seen Giuliani look so weak and ineffective.
McCain had some moments. I diagree with his position on waterboarding, but it appeared earnest. Other than that, he mainly appeared old and out of touch.
Ron Paul was out of touch with reality, period. Somebody please show this nutjob and his nutjob supporters to the door. Please!
The best performances of the night belonged to Duncan Hunter, Fred Thompson and Tom Tancredo. Tancredo was pigeonholed into immigration issues, but answered his pet issue extremely well. Hunter showed more depth and had only a minor nuance stumble (I disliked his melancholy pandering rememberances of his father - sorry, I don't really care).
I think Thompson had some great answers and was allowed to show greater depth than Hunter, but I thought he had a few weak hacks at some breaking balls he should have hammered. I thought his answers on the Confederate flag and the plant abortion question were just OK - not great - and Fred should own all state's rights questions. But I especially loved his responses on guns - "I'm not telling you where I keep my guns" - and his defense of the office of the Vice President.
However, the biggest winners of the night were the Democrat candidates. Not only did they got to plant questions in a Republican debate, CNN intentionally selected questions to paint all Republicans (candidates and voters) as redneck, gun-toting, Bible-thumping, racist homophobes. That tarring won't directly hurt Republicans in primaries, we're smart enough to shrug off the liberal bias in the media's projection of who we are.
What disppoints me is that all of the smoke & mirrors of the Democrat plants and the irrelevant "God, Guns & Gays" stereotype in the contrived CNN debate will serve to obfuscate and diminish the negative impact of truly putrid performances of RINOs Rudy, Mitt & Huckabee. They were awful last night and will do great harm to our party and nation if they are not revealed to Republican primary/caucus voters.
It may seem that way, but I'm here too.
Good for him...!!
National Review's Kathryn Lopez recently interviewed Pat Toomey, president of the Club for Growth.
Here's one excerpt:
Kathryn Jean Lopez: Is Mike Huckabee really as bad as you say he is?
Pat Toomey: He’s every bit as bad, and you don’t have to just take our word for it. Jonah Goldberg, you and your fellow editors at National Review, Bob Novak, and John Fund — to name just a few conservative writers — agree that Mike Huckabee is no conservative. You can read the Club’s white paper on our website, but here is a quick summary of Huckabee’s worst hits. According to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, the average Arkansas tax burden increased 47% over Huckabee’s tenure.
Huckabee supported (in chronological order) a sales tax hike; gas and diesel fuel tax hikes; another sales tax hike; a cigarette tax hike; a nursing home bed tax; another sales tax hike; an income surcharge tax; a tobacco tax hike; taxes on Internet access; and higher beer taxes.
Huckabee also oversaw a 50-percent increase in spending; happily signed a minimum wage increase and encouraged national Republicans to do the same; favors a national smoking ban, farm subsidies, and a federally mandated arts and music curriculum; opposes private school choice; and employs class-warfare and protectionist language on the campaign trail.
Huckabee calls himself an economic conservative in the mold of Ronald Reagan, but the above list doesn’t sound like either.
Not a liberal. Have never voted Democrat. Have always voted Republican. But your attempts of projection are duly noted.
I now he has at least one fan from Arkansas on FR.
And yet the comment from you:
Aw, is the poor little conservative...
So... which is it? Are you a liar? Or a liberal?
Are you the liar? I am the conservative
Bravo Sierra. Or you wouldn't be supporting a RINO like Huckabee.
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