Posted on 12/22/2007 2:16:35 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Huck offers olive branch to Rush, asks for him to get in touch
SIOUX CITY, Iowa — The best-talking Republican politician in America has a message for the best-talking conservative voice in the country: Let's talk to one another.
Mike Huckabee, taking questions from reporters after a town hall meeting here, responded to the torrent of criticism that Rush Limbaugh unleashed during his broadcast yesterday by turning the other cheek — and then heaping on the praise.
"I love Rush Limbaugh; I've always loved his show," Huckabee assured. "I think he’s been great for the conservative movement."
The former Arkansas governor conceded that he hadn't sought Limbaugh out to set the record straight — but that he would like to.
"I don’t have his number," Huckabee explained. "If you have it, Jonathan, why don’t you give it to me. I’d love to talk to him."
"Maybe put it on the Web that if he’ll call me, I’d love to visit with him."
Stung by an anonymous Huckabee supporter's comments to Marc Ambinder that derided the influential talker as taking his cues from the "D.C./Manhattan chattering class," Limbaugh used his Friday show to defend himself.
"I'm part of the Cape Girardeau-Middle America axis," Limbaugh said, alluding to his Missouri hometown.
He called the attacks "Clintonian" and accused Huckabee's campaign of "trying to dumb down conservatism in order to get it to conform with his record."
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Now now.
Huckabee might be a disaster-in-the-making for the Republican Party... but there is no need to stoop to DU-like comments.
(Although I feel much the same angst toward the Huck as you probably do)
A Huckabee nomination would feed into the worst stereotypes the Dems and mainstream media believers already have of the GOP ---
Ironically, the GOP has recently been making good progress in reaching out to conservatives (non-religious or otherwise ethnic) in other segments of American life.
Huckabee would set back the conservative/GOP movement 50 years.
I donate $$ to the Hunter campaign, but I openly support Mitt Romney.
Romney might not be as rock-ribbed as Duncan, but he stands the best chance of holding together the GOP base while defeating the Democrats in '08.
Rush has been subliminally and inflectively slamming Huckabee for several weeks now, without coming out an openly opposing him.
It's been obvious in the way Rush criticizes Huckaee -- and what he says in support of others like Romney or Fred Thompson.
Rush, who is certainly no dummy, sees the disaster that would befall the GOP is Huckabee were to be the nominee for '08.
It's the essence of the message and not the mangled syntax that matters.
The Free Republic Poll has Thompson by a landslide. It differs from national polls.
YIKES!
With God there are no coincidences. Last name seems to fit.
Or Rush could call him, visit, and decide from first hand knowledge what he thinks of Huck.
And if Rush is basing his opinion of the huck on what he reads about him, rather than taking the opportunity to visit with him personally..... then Rush is past his time and usefulness.
Right. Millions of Americans have to base their opinion on the
candidates’ records. Rush knows how to read. The Huckster can’t get out of his leftist pardons, or creating his slush fund to get others to support him or all of his other stupid and greedy actions. It’s FACT.
Huckabee is right out of “All the King’s Men” central casting. Look at the cross in the commercial incident. Huckabee’s reply to criticism is that it’s only a book shelf and then he compares people that are asking questions about it to people playing a Beetle’s record backwards and claiming they hear, “Paul is dead.”
Translation: The rubes know what it is and they’re for me. Anyone else, that thinks they can get in my way, that thinks they can question me, deserves only scorn and ridicule. I don’t have to answer to them!
To paraphrase Wellington, I don’t know what effect he will have on the general electorate, but he sure scares me.
If Rush is nothing more than a guy on the radio reading what other people are saying to us... .then he has outlived his usefulness. It isn’t about Huck. It’s about Rush and if he is going to continue to be of value.
So, you’re saying the Huckabee campaign is right in throwing Rush under the bus?
No... I’m saying that if Rush doesn’t take up the offer and visit with the guy that he is past his usefulness. 15 to 20 years ago we didn’t have the internet and all of the ability it has given us to follow campaigns etc. Rush provided information that wasn’t available. If Rush is just about talking about what other people are writing... when we can readily read that ourselves.... then he has out lived his usefulness.
Let me put it this way. I don’t need Rush to tell me what to think about Ann Coulter’s column. I can read it myself and I’m old enough to make my own decision about what it says etc. But if Rush wants to do some real work and visit with a candidate, and relay that information.... that has value to me.
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