Posted on 01/04/2008 2:31:46 PM PST by jbwbubba
Layer upon layer of deception
Remember the attack ad against Mitt Romney that Mike Huckabee said he wasn't going to air, but played for reporters so they could publicize his attacks on Romney? It turns out that Huckabee did air the ad -- at least 10 times on four different stations in Davenport and Cedar Rapids, according to FactCheck.org.
Moreover, FactCheck found that Huckabee's attack ad contains several "misleading claims" about his rival. For one thing, the ad says Romney's record as governor of Massachusetts includes "no executions." That's true, but the reason is that Massachusetts doesn't have a death penalty. Indeed, Romney tried but failed to get the death penalty reinstated.
In a less egregious but somewhat misleading claim, the ad also holds Romney accountable for the fact that his state's health care program covers abortions. But Romney didn't make the decision to provide abortion coverage for a $50 co-pay. Rather, the health care legislation Romney signed provided that an independent agency would implement the law and would develop criteria for plans eligible for premium assistance payments.
Meanwhile, FactCheck blows the whistle on another Huckabee ad in which he touts his record as a "tax cutter." Among other problems with the ad, Huckabee's tenure as governor actually resulted in a $505.1 million net increase in taxes.
This guy belongs in a period piece...brocade jacket, ash cane, and a whole shelf of little bottles of snake oil in front of him. He’s a clown...preacher or not. His flip attitude is a front for a lying, duplicitous, flim-flam man from Arkansas. I though maybe we had learned our lesson about these guys.
There’s still hope (not Hope, AR), though. Fred is getting some serious attention.
Go, Fred!
He might be a good guy or not, but just let those words rattle around in your mind - - gag!
Powerline is only reporting what factcheck.org discovered. Guess they’re just deceptive too.
Just a vast conspiracy.
HOW DARE YOUR YOU ANTI CHRISTIAN BIGOT POINTING OUT ST. HUCKABEES LIES!
Beware the Media’s Champions!
The media will champion the Republican which is MOST like a Leftist Democrat, or the Republican they believe will be the easiest to defeat.
Remember their romance with McCain?
Observe their twisted dance with Huckabee...
How else can one explain the Godless Marxists of the Media — championing this clown who claims to be a “Theologian” with a B.A. in Biblical Studies.... Hell, anyone who spent their youth in Sunday school are just a entitled to claim being a “Theologian”.....
The Media and the Left know if need be, they can destroy Huckabee in the General Election....
That was when all they knew about him was that he was a Republican candidate with charisma. After they discovered his positions on immigration, foreign policy, etc., they may have started wondering why he wasn't running in the Democratic primary, instead. Romney has the excuse that he had to run to the left in Massachusetts, whose patron saint is JFK. I can't see what excuse Huckabee has for his positions, given that he's running in Arkansas, which isn't exactly known as a blue state.
True, but the law requires they be deported as well, so which came the lie are the huckster?
Another note is that the left must just be loving all of our infighting. We're (conservatives) doing all the heavy lifting for the democrat attack ads in the general election.
I sure hope Fred gets through.
thanks for the excellent summary.
Everyone needs to ask themselves if their theological differences with Mitt, which he won't force on anyone, are so much more important that the economic reality differences with the Huckster (such as the buy-in of global warming and colonization with illegal aliens), which he will force on all of us. Only certified religious bigots will answer "yes".
Thus, religious bigotry is the only good reason to vote for the Huckster considering that:
Keep the Evangelicals on the plantation.
Tax cuts for Wall Street.
Jobs for New York and Washington Think Tanks.
Phone Banks and Voting for the Evangelicals.
He sure sold a lot of it in Iowa. Seems Hope Ark. is a breading ground for these types!
Mike Gumpabee
How is this not a reckless and outrageious abdication of Romney's governmental responsibility, leading to taxpayer funded abortions?
Deception? Good grief. Intelligent people, upon acquiring new information, factor that new information into their decisions and opinions.
Thanks for posting this and thanks to all for the comments. I’m trying to convert a wonderful Southern Baptist woman who loves huck because he’s former minister and ministers don’t lie.
It isn't even the general, and Huckabee is already referring to the 'Club for Growth' as the 'Club for Greed', already said that "anti-immigration Republicans are guilty of demagoguery and racism", already stated he wants to close gitmo to soothe world opinion, is already saying nice stuff about Obama and other Dems and how he has in heart many of their goals...
If he wins the nomination, I shudder to think about the full-blown class-warfare that will be unleashed to match that of the Dems (but we will be protected from the homos, so it is worth it).
From the Washington Times:
Mitt Romney, who looked as if he was succumbing to a John McCain come-from-behind onslaught in New Hampshire, has retaken the lead in the latest Suffolk University-Boston 7 News poll.
“Romney knows where his strengths are and is addressing his weaknesses,” said poll director David Paleologos. “He has all but erased McCain’s advantage with older voters and focusing on that constituency is smart politics — they turn out in these elections.”
Among those likely to vote in the GOP primary, Mr. Romney posted 29 percent, four percentage points ahead of Mr. McCain’s 24 percent.
Mike Huckabee, the overwhelming Iowa winner, gained a single percentage point over the previous day, now showing 13 percent support among poll respondents.
Only a one point bump for Huck out of Iowa.
I think he’s beyond sleezy and all the way to smarmy.
The way I see it - the only thing Huckabee looks to be promising is religious atmospherics. He’s weak on foreign policy and a big spender domestically. I think the place for religious atmospherics is in church, not at the White House. (I don’t mind it in the White House, but it has to be accompanied by substantive economic and foreign policy positions that are conservative).
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