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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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To: Checkers
The Romney family is a handsome bunch, they remind me of the Kennedys only better looking. Unfortunately I don’t vote for or against a candidate because of their looks.
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posted on
12/21/2007 9:49:35 PM PST
by
Ditter
To: peggybac
I still dont get it with Huckabee, and, I certainly dont understand his rise in the polls.
While I am not a Huck supporter, Fred's my man, let me try and explain Huckabee's rise in the polls.
First of all, as Dick Morris has said, in this age of the Internet, money can not buy elections anymore. (Reference Mitt Romney spending a gazillion dollars in Iowa and Huckabe spending a couple a million. Reference also, Ron Paul raising 6 million dollars in one day; yet he will only get about 4% of the vote.)
Secondly, Conservatives have been dying for a candidate. Rudy certainly doesn't feel the bill. McCain with his opposition to the Bush Tax Cuts and passing the damnable McCain/Feingold Bill, and his love affair with the likes of Ted Kennedy cannot fill the bill. Romney is a flip-flopper and now he's Bill Clintonesque with: "It all depends on what the meaning of 'I saw' is", with reference to "I saw my day march with Martin Luther King" (which never happened). He's a flipper and a liar and a hypocrite. And, my man, Fred, has just not gotten traction. Why, I don't know.
So, the Conservatives have united behind Huckabee.
202
posted on
12/21/2007 9:49:47 PM PST
by
no dems
(FRED THOMPSON: The only Conservative running who can beat Hillary or Obama.)
To: Eric Blair 2084
Really he has 24,999,999 listeners .Ha I think not and he does not make president’s.
203
posted on
12/21/2007 9:52:21 PM PST
by
fatima
(Free Hugs for Christmas:))
To: Checkers
I still believe that Fred will rise from the politically dead and take us to victory in 2008.
If he dosen’t my second choice would be Duncan Hunter.
My third choice would be very hard to make.
But I tell you this I will not vote for any of the current front running Democrats.
So my third choice will be who ever the people unite behind and nominate as the Republican candidate.
204
posted on
12/21/2007 9:53:38 PM PST
by
OKIEDOC
(Kalifornia, a red state wannabe. I don't take Ex Lax I just read the New York Times.)
To: peggybac
“Im sorry. I still dont get it with Huckabee, and, I certainly dont understand his rise in the polls.”
You’re not the one who needs to apologize.
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posted on
12/21/2007 9:54:41 PM PST
by
Checkers
(First they came for the Mormons, but I said nothing because I was not Mormon.)
To: Checkers
Choose wisely:
Excerpt:
Now, here is where my plea for Mormons to simply tell the truth comes in. This is America. You can believe anything you want.
If you want to believe that God was once a human being, that Jesus was his physical son, that you can become a God yourself, that Jesus and Satan were brothers, you can certainly do so.
But tell the truth! If you believe it, be proud of itdont try to hide it.
Source
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posted on
12/21/2007 9:56:29 PM PST
by
donna
(Duncan Hunter: US Army, 1969-1971, with service in Vietnam)
To: Eric Blair 2084
“You stopped listening to Rush?
Geez, now he only has 24,999,999 listeners. Waaaaahhhh!!!”
I’m sure Rush is all broke up about this...
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posted on
12/21/2007 9:56:32 PM PST
by
Checkers
(First they came for the Mormons, but I said nothing because I was not Mormon.)
To: fatima
Have you ever been in a Turkish prison fatima?
208
posted on
12/21/2007 9:57:06 PM PST
by
Eric Blair 2084
(Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms shouldn't be a federal agency...it should be a convenience store.)
To: razorback-bert
If half of what his dissenters are saying about the Huckster is true then he will not make it all the way to being the Republican representative.
209
posted on
12/21/2007 9:57:09 PM PST
by
OKIEDOC
(Kalifornia, a red state wannabe. I don't take Ex Lax I just read the New York Times.)
To: Checkers
I vote that we remove Iowa from the caucuses.
To: Checkers
Condi bitchslapped the Huck today.
If she keep it up on sucking up to the Palestinians and selling Israel down the river, she's going to cause this nation that we all love, to be bitch slapped by God Himself. Read what God has to say about Israel, the seed of Abraham: "I will bless them that bless thee and I will curse them that curse thee". (Genesis 12:3)
At one time, I was a avid supporter in the "Draft Condi" movement for President. Thank God that, not a minute too soon, I saw her for what she really is, just another political whore.
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posted on
12/21/2007 9:58:57 PM PST
by
no dems
(FRED THOMPSON: The only Conservative running who can beat Hillary or Obama.)
To: Eric Blair 2084
No but I’m married does count:)
212
posted on
12/21/2007 9:59:56 PM PST
by
fatima
(Free Hugs for Christmas:))
To: no dems
You believe that?
If anything, principled libertarians and conservatives have not been strong enough in standing by their ideology.
Populist ideas generally entail further state encroachment on the private sphere, which is the domain of a free people.
213
posted on
12/21/2007 10:01:29 PM PST
by
Skywalk
(Transdimensional Jihad!)
To: Ditter
Yes, Rush is in an awkward position.
All of the other high powered conservatives have chosen Rudy or Mitt.
Rush knows both of them are disasters.
If he chooses the one true conservative, Duncan Hunter, he will alienate the people he knows and respects, like William F. Buckley and Bill Bennett.
To: no dems
At one time, I was a avid supporter in the “Draft Condi” movement for President.
That took guts to admit that! :D
To: Checkers
But how much of a lying conniver can you be that being Christian will offset it for some voters?? Isn’t there SOME level of decency that voters will want to have for The President of the United States of America??? Do we have to be THAT forgiving??
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posted on
12/21/2007 10:02:52 PM PST
by
Yaelle
(FRED, the most intelligent choice)
To: fatima
yep, marriage is like a Turkish prison.
217
posted on
12/21/2007 10:04:18 PM PST
by
Eric Blair 2084
(Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms shouldn't be a federal agency...it should be a convenience store.)
To: mcjordansc
Rush delivers full throttle conservatism daily, along with a healthy amount of entertainment, and does NOT pop pills, though he was addicted to pain killers a few years back.
He gave Huck the kiss of death today. Rush knew EXACTLY what he was doing.
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posted on
12/21/2007 10:04:33 PM PST
by
Yaelle
(FRED, the most intelligent choice)
To: Little_GTO
But to the Evangelicals, the Huckster is THEIR corrupt socialistIt is simply that they have no where else to go.
219
posted on
12/21/2007 10:04:36 PM PST
by
roamer_1
(Vote for Frudy McRomsonbee -Turn red states purple in 08!)
To: Little_GTO
he will alienate the people he knows
Nice point :)
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