Posted on 12/02/2007 12:10:08 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Agree. This is still going to be a marathon, rather than a sprint, to the nominating convention.
If I'm guessing right, a part of Fred's strategy is to get the support of the lesser candidates (McCain, Tancredo, Hunter) when they drop out. He is the only candidate besides Huckabee from the South, and that's where the votes are.
Again, just my opinion, but there's a comfort factor among Fredheads with their candidate that I just don't see with the others.
We’ve had enough southerners for president. It’s time to move on.
The right to an abortion was conjured out of thin air by the Supreme Court and the best chance of rolling back and eventually overturning that shameful decision is through the courts. It should be through the legislative bodies, but the courts have made themselves superior to the legislatures.
I don't see how support for a strategy which has no hope of success under current conditions is the proper litmus test to apply to candidates.
Every time this a-hole repeats this dishonest cornpone demagoguery my revulsion grows. Huckabee is really earning "barf alert" status.
Egg-zackly. And that's how we know definitively that he is a fraud and a hypocrite.
Politicians just can’t take their eyes off the green. They’re all whores.
Thanks. Both of you. Of course you’re right. Fred is laying the foundation with his policy statements, which nobody else can touch. Nobody else has even tried. (Except Duncan Hunter, of course, who is just as good but not nearly as up to the task of winning.)
Thanks for the reality check.
I am damn near comatose, just like Fred is said to be by some...
Fred has a plan, and it seems to be going well, indeed better now with Huck in the mix...
Mike “The Huckster” Huckabee BUMP!
I have mixed emotions when “Republicans” like Romney or Huckabee have a conversion on an issue and choose the conservative view that their base voters want.
On one hand it is good that they are listening, hear what voters are saying and change their policy (I thought that was the point and it’s what voters want). On the other hand, there is the obvious possibility/probability that they are saying whatever people want to hear and will then revert back to their old ways.
You damn right he does! Fred needs to make his stand in SC and FL and pound Huckabee.
You better believe I’m going to write a letter to the editor about it.
The liberal MSM must really think Social Conservatives are stupid. They keep pitching and pimping the Huckster hoping somebody will buy. To be added, please Freepmail me or OB1KnOB
He’s not even consistent on abortion.
“Huckabee leads the GOP field with 29 percent support, according to a Des Moines Register poll released Sunday.”
See Pat Robertson.
Mr. Hucakabee is a POPULIST, not a conservative.
I heard a stat by a reporter that 29% (IIRC, close) of Iowa caucus goers vote strictly for the life candidate. Iowa means little.
Video of Huckabee Calling for Scholarships and In-State Tuition for Illegal Aliens (2005)
Arkansas Journal ^ | November 25, 2007 | Henry Rearden
Posted on 11/25/2007 10:12:50 PM MST by RebekahT
I went to the link, watched the video, and transcribed Huckabee's words. Here they are:
TRANSCRIPT OF VIDEO (transcription done by FReeper Joya): Im also going to ask that we open financial aid for any student graduating from a high school in Arkansas. Theres something terribly unjust about a kid whose family came here looking for opportunity and that kid maybe has come, at the age of four, as happened in a school in El Dorado. And that student of hispanic descent, spent his entire career as a student in Arkansas public schools, from the age of four. Graduated from high school, one of the top kids in his class, but when he applied for financial aid, he wasnt eligible for the various scholarships or grants because of his status a status that he had no decision in and no control over. Do we want to change fhe future for those kids? Then lets give them the opportunity. Lets not say that our doors are open but our opportunities are closed. Lets open both our doors and our opportunities and create a whole new generation of kids who have the opportunity to be prosperous and to bring to their families a hope that they came here for.
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