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The Rush Fallout for Huckabee: Fatal, or Missing the Target?
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| 12/21/2007
| Jim Geraghty
Posted on 12/21/2007 12:05:13 PM PST by Checkers
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posted on
12/21/2007 12:05:14 PM PST
by
Checkers
To: Checkers
For a guy running for this lands highest office the Huckster is really starting to piss off some really influential conservative voices.
With or without Rush’s blessing the Huckster can not win.
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posted on
12/21/2007 12:08:58 PM PST
by
OKIEDOC
(Kalifornia, a red state wannabe. I don't take Ex Lax I just read the New York Times.)
To: Checkers
cHuckles decides to pick a fight with Rush one day before his final show of the year. Just BRILLIANT.
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posted on
12/21/2007 12:09:24 PM PST
by
inkling
(exurbanleague.com)
To: Checkers
These Huckabee supporters are acting like cultists. So if we question Huck on his policies, we are accused of being anti-christian and part of the ‘establishment’. Give me a break. This is a rehash of Perot days, and that led to Clinton. No thanks to Huck. I have serious problems with his policies. He’s a populist, not a conservative. His minions attack Rush, and I have yet to see Huck distance himself from the comments. That tells me he supports them. That is a disgrace.
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posted on
12/21/2007 12:11:03 PM PST
by
MaestroLC
("Let him who wants peace prepare for war."--Vegetius, A.D. Fourth Century)
To: Checkers
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posted on
12/21/2007 12:11:18 PM PST
by
Porterville
(Don't bug me about my grammar, you are not that great.)
To: OKIEDOC
He can win without Rush’s blessing. Rush does not have that much power. Most people understand by now that Rush is nothing more than a pill popping, thrice divorced hypocrite laughing all the way to the back because of the sheeple who continue to buy his line of b.s.
To: Checkers
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posted on
12/21/2007 12:15:21 PM PST
by
commonguymd
(Move it to the right -Vote for Fred!)
To: mcjordansc
that sounds like some typical, liberal bs...you can bite me
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posted on
12/21/2007 12:15:49 PM PST
by
PjhCPA
(catchy taglines are boring)
To: mcjordansc
So?
I take it you don’t listen to him?
Chuckle, Chuckle
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posted on
12/21/2007 12:15:53 PM PST
by
PeteB570
(Guns, what real men want for Christmas)
To: Porterville
I don’t know that Rush’s audience would vote yea or nay on Huckster simply on Rush’s say so, but at least they’re getting info on Huck that the Drive-bys aren’t giving them. There’s no way I’d vote for Huck during the primaries - NONE.
The MSM has a vested interest in trying to push the candidate on the GOP they think has the best chance of losing to any one of the absymal field of DEM contenders at present. Huck’s their only shot, or so they think. I’m not a big believer in polls - can anyone advise what the current polling on a Hildebeest v. Huckster outcome would be?
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posted on
12/21/2007 12:17:47 PM PST
by
Right Cal Gal
(Remember Billy Dale!!!)
To: mcjordansc
Rush does not have that much power. Most people understand by now that Rush is nothing more than a pill popping, thrice divorced hypocrite laughing all the way to the back because of the sheeple who continue to buy his line of b.s. You are delusional. Rush is the most influential and important conservative voice in this country and if he wanted to he could have derailed the Huckster months ago.
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posted on
12/21/2007 12:18:39 PM PST
by
pgkdan
(Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions - G.K. Chesterton)
To: Checkers
Huckabee’s just a Media driven diversion to get the limelight off of Hillary’s stupid moves beginning about the time she pulled the first one. This is to give her a time out to reinvent herself period.
Huckabee ain’t the one folks. He’ll fade away as we see the reinvented Hillary pull the “Comeback Kid” crap.
Why Huckabee? Multiple reasons dealing with not only the above, but to denigrate the credibility of the Evangelical Christian Right.
It’s a setup.
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posted on
12/21/2007 12:18:44 PM PST
by
rockinqsranch
(Dems, Libs, Socialists...call 'em what you will...They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
To: Checkers
Its not just Limbaugh, Coulter has a devastating column up on her website concerning Huckabee as well.
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posted on
12/21/2007 12:20:16 PM PST
by
Badeye
(The two “no” votes were cast by Ron Paul and leftwing nut Dennis Kucinich.)
To: Checkers
Dig through my old posts. Early on, I had completely rejected Huck, putting him down at the bottom of the barrel with Rudy.
Since then, Huck’s run a brilliant campaign, timing his endorsements well, rolling up most of the Christian right (well, what’s left of it), and ticked off a pile of country club conservatives.
Meanwhile, my top choice (Fred) has stumbled a few times, lost ground, and has not been particularly impressive since he announced. At this point, Fred has pretty much put all of his eggs in the Iowa basket, while Mitt, Rudy and Huck are set to keep going even if they don’t show well there.
At this point, it’s looking like it will shape up as a Mitt-Rudy-Huck race in March, so my choice will have to be between Mitt and Huck at that point.
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posted on
12/21/2007 12:20:38 PM PST
by
PAR35
To: Checkers
I’ve been trying to find out who is was who made the idiotic quote about Rush not thinking for himself. All the blogs say Huck ally or Huck supporter, but I have not been able to find a name. Can anyone tell me who made the quote?
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posted on
12/21/2007 12:20:49 PM PST
by
Talking_Mouse
(O Lord, destroy Islam by converting the Muslims to Christianity.)
To: mcjordansc
You couldn’t be more wrong.
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posted on
12/21/2007 12:21:09 PM PST
by
Badeye
(The two “no” votes were cast by Ron Paul and leftwing nut Dennis Kucinich.)
To: Checkers
Would Jesus hire Ed Rollins?I somehow doubt it but Christie Todd Whitman, Ross Perot, K T McFarlane, Katherine Harris, and Michael Huffington all did....
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posted on
12/21/2007 12:21:26 PM PST
by
NeoCaveman
(If higher cigarette taxes discourage smoking, what...do higher Income Taxes discourage? - massgopguy)
To: PjhCPA
that sounds like some typical, liberal bs...you can bite me.
Nice comeback. I guess you would be a ditto head. I listen sometimes. I am not a liberal. I simply believe Rush is a blowhard and lost any moral authority he might have had years ago. Rush spends his time talking about a "drive-by media" when I think he participates in this more than any one else on TV or radio.
To: mcjordansc
And just what do you have to back your BS about Rush. Maybe you should listen to Rush instead of just spouting off.
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posted on
12/21/2007 12:22:12 PM PST
by
Logical me
(Oh, well!!!)
To: mcjordansc
Most people understand by now that Rush is nothing more than a pill popping, thrice divorced hypocrite laughing all the way to the back because of the sheeple who continue to buy his line of b.s.LOL. Rush drew blood if Hucksters like you are screaming.
Huckabee combines the worst of the Christian right with the worst of populism. He is wrong on:
Immigration
Taxes
Spending
School choice
and as a bonus he's soft on criminals
Other than that he's just swell.
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posted on
12/21/2007 12:22:12 PM PST
by
Maynerd
(Hillary = amnesty, higher taxes,defeat in the WOT, and socialized medicine)
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