I am afraid the Republican Establishment is going to pay a high price in 2008 for taking the Value Voters for granted over the years.
Going to be intresting to see if the Pro Lifers or the Limited Govt Conservative win this fight. Both sides are convinced the party "has betrayed them" and neither side is the least bit intrested in compromising with the other side. In addition both sides are convinced "they are the base of the party".
So why did the National Right to Life Committee, the largest U.S. anti-abortion, group endorse Fred?
Why not both? I think my problem with the 'pro-lifers' - since I consider myself to be a social conservative - is that they are equating talk (the HRA) to action (appointing judges that might overturn Roe vs Wade).
I'd be happy with the action, and Rudy and Mitt are the only ones I'd worry about on that account.
I BEG TO DIFFER WITH YOU!
HAVE YOU DONE YOUR RESEARCH???
Mike Huckabee: In the words of those conservatives who know him best
Here are some recent statements on the character and background of recent conservative favorite Mike Huckabee:
Phyllis Schlafly, president of Eagle Forum:
“He destroyed the conservative movement in Arkansas, and left the Republican Party a shambles ... Yet some of the same evangelicals who sold us on George W. Bush as a ‘compassionate conservative’ are now trying to sell us on Mike Huckabee.”
Betsy Hagan, Arkansas director of the Eagle Forum and a key backer of his early runs for office:
“He was pro-life and pro-gun, but otherwise a liberal ... Just like Bill Clinton he will charm you, but don’t be surprised if he takes a completely different turn in office.”
Blant Hurt, former columnist for Arkansas Business magazine:
“He has zero intellectual underpinnings in the conservative movement ... He’s hostile to free trade, hiked sales and grocery taxes, backed sales taxes on Internet purchases, and presided over state spending going up more than twice the inflation rate.”
Paul Pressler, former Texas judge and conservative member of the Southern Baptist Convention (of which Huckabee is a minister and former head):
“I know of no conservative he appointed while he headed the Arkansas Baptist Convention.”
Conservative Wall Street Journal columnist John Fund:
“Mr. Huckabee was the only GOP candidate to refuse to endorse President Bush’s veto of the Democrats’ bill to vastly expand the Schip health-care program. Only he and John McCain have endorsed the discredited cap-and-trade system to limit global-warming emissions that has proved a fiasco in Europe.”
They would vote for Hillery if she smiled and said, “Say, did I mention that I am, and always have been, pro life?.”