That, and that Fred doesn't have indigestion.
Posted on 12/04/2007 12:36:01 PM PST by pissant
Pretty much. Here’s what he said:
MIKE HUCKABEE: I’ve been to Guantanamo, I was there, I guess it’s been about a year and a half ago. I think the problem with Guantanamo is not in that its facilities are inadequate. It’s the symbol that it represents. It’s clearly become a symbol to the rest of the world as a place that has become problematic for us as a nation. I was quite frankly impressed with the quality of the facilities and even the attention to care that was given to the detainees, but that aside, it doesn’t alter that Guantanamo to the rest of the world is a symbol that is not in our best interests to continue pursuing.
Never mind the fact it’s been a valuable source of information. No, he thinks it’s a bad symbol, so it should now be closed.
After the Iowa poll showed that Republican voters like him but found him much less “presidential” and “electable” than Romney, Huckabee sought to build his foreign policy credentials, meeting with a group of retired generals who are in Des Moines to urge the 2008 candidates to commit to opposing torture. After the meeting, Huckabee joined Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) in declaring his opposition to the interrogation procedure known as “waterboarding,” and said he would support closing the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a contrast with the other leading Republicans.
Bryan:
That paragraph suggests that you’re easily swayed by a single meeting on important issues that have been before the American people for years…
My take: He’s putting symbolism over substance and putting worldwide condemnation ahead of the security realities. Those are not good qualities in a commander in chief who’ll lead a country that was globally envied and reviled long before the war even started.
Paul Mirengoff:
I suspect that Huckabee required little lobbying. Waterboarding and long-term detention aren’t very “Christian”; they merely keep terrorists out of action and, in special circumstances enable us to find out where we’re going to be attacked next and/or where we can find those who are planning the next attacks. But if Huckabee actually did reach his position based on the views of a handful of generals, and without consulting the people actually charged with protecting this country from terrorists, then he’s even less qualified to be president than I suspect.
With any luck, this will be the end of Huck’s presidential chances.
That, and that Fred doesn't have indigestion.
Arkansas voters were first to give Bill Clinton the nickname Slick Willy long before th erest of us knew who he was. They also gave Mike Huckabee, who raised more taxes in 10 years in office than Bill Clinton did in his 12 years, the nickname “Tax Hike Mike”
Was there really ever any doubt here at FR (except in the minds of a few misguideds)?
Damn right!!!
This is the same foolish, soft-headed mindset that led Huckabee to personally and passionately push for the parole of Wayne Dumond, the rapist who went on to rape and murder more women.
I have no idea what you are saying but if Huckabee is against waterboarding terrorist that could stop another 9/11 I'm against him.
I kind of liked I think it was Romney who said he would build more Guantanamos.
Well, I had been leaning towards Fred but since he’s not receiving much backing and support, I began inching toward Huckabee, but now I’m all Fred. We must do what needs to be done without regard to what others think about it.
Fred’s my man,
Screw them.
you couldn’t really call Bush a liberal even though he likes to spend money (when the repubs were in charge of congress) and a bit soft on illegals.
Huck really is a liberal.
“Republican voters and conservatives are not swayed by the MSM. Liberals are. The internet and talk radio will carry this. That is where conservatives get their news from. It will sink Huckabee and used against him if there are any remaining debates.”
I pray you are correct sir. We even have people here that shill for him.
Are you kidding me? Bush will go down as one of the greatest Presidents in history, a title his dad may have gotten if he had enough conviction to go into Baghdad. Amnesty sucked for sure but Bush as a leader is on par with Reagan. He is a man of conviction, not a triangulating wish washy poll reader.
Failure is not only an option, it’s a damned good plan...
My first inkling that something was wrong with Mike Huckabee was when he went on some bizarre tirade about the shameful behavior on the behalf his fellow Republican Party candidates for not appearing at a biased, black race-based political forum hosted by the usual race pimps and victimization prostitutes like PBS’s Tavis Smiley, professional whitey hater and career race division fomenter. Huckabee along with Brownback, both open borders, illegal immigration, and amnesty proponents; chided other conservatives for not embracing a policy that amounts to the exact kind of destructive and divisive policy of race and group pandering that liberal Democrat socialist frauds employ on a daily basis. Huckabee is obviously filled with an enormous amount of racial and social guilt he believes the rest of us have and should sacrifice our money, our liberty, our rights, our national sovereignty, and the very rule of law that holds this nation together, in order to redeem. No wonder the same RINO traitors and liberal scumbags who hate and despise Republicans and conservatives have joined ranks to defend Huckabee for being the only “compassionate” and concerned candidate running on the Republican ticket.
Huckleberry thought he could slide in to the White House just like the Slick Willie did.
And Romney has been pilloried for it in the press, just as he has been pilloried for being "mean and uncompassionate" for not being in favor of extorting of taxes from citizens to subsidize the college educations of illegal aliens.
The MSM loves Huckabee because he warbles like a yellow-bird liberal on issues like Guantanamo and illegal aliens.
I don't want for president a former Baptist preacher who believes he has been anointed by God to make the American people and their government more "compassionate." I want a strong, vigorous, and wise president who will be hard and resolute when dealing on America's enemies and who will keep his hands out of my pocket.
I know far better how to spend my money in compassionate ways than the government does.
bflr
bflr = bump for later reading.........
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