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FRED: 'HUCKABEE SUPPORTED DEMOCRATS'
MSNBC First Read ^

Posted on 01/12/2008 1:40:02 PM PST by jaybeegee

Thompson and Huckabee sparred earlier this week after Thompson called the Arkansas governor a dirty word: "liberal." Today, speaking to reporters after a campaign event at a breakfast restaurant in North Charleston, Thompson served up another helping.

Asked to respond to Huckabee's charge that Thompson voted for Republican candidates other than conservative icon Ronald Reagan in 1976 and 1980, Thompson scoffed, "That's kind of silly." He explained his support of longtime Tennessee mentor Howard Baker before adding, "If you check the record, Governor Huckabee supported Democrats on a fairly consistent basis during his days in Arkansas politics.

"I don't think he wants to get into that discussion."

Thompson, who has thrown almost all of his campaign's resources into South Carolina in the hopes that a win in the first southern primary could buoy his campaign, says that there's "plenty of time" before next week's contest to convince voters that he's the best conservative candidate.

"We're going to have to make some fundamental decisions as which direction we want to go as a party," he said. "Whether or not we still believe in the Reagan coalition or whether or not we think we ought to go towards a more populist -- and I consider more liberal -- kind of approach."

*UPDATE* From NBC/NJ's Adam Aigner-Treworgy and Carrie Dann According to news outlets in the governor's home state, Huckabee supported Democrat Barbara Horn during a 2000 primary race for a state senate seat in southwest Arkansas. Horn subsequently beat her Democratic opponent, and the Republican she would have opposed bowed out of the race.

[See source for more...]

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; elections; fred; fredthompson; huckabee; sc2008
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1 posted on 01/12/2008 1:40:04 PM PST by jaybeegee
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To: jaybeegee

Give ‘em hell, Fred!


2 posted on 01/12/2008 1:45:28 PM PST by SolidWood (Al Gore: "I have never heard of this, but I think it is a very good idea,")
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To: jaybeegee

I will not support Fred no matter what. His bad character is showing. Fred moves to the bottom below Romney and Ron Paul.


3 posted on 01/12/2008 1:46:14 PM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: jaybeegee

What say you Huck-a-Nuts?


4 posted on 01/12/2008 1:47:48 PM PST by Mensius
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To: jaybeegee

Fred, that’s not the worst of it when it comes to Huckabee.

Who did Huck support in the last Arkansas Senate race?

It wasn’t Mr. Holt the Republican.

Blanche Lincoln and Harry Ried should be greatful.


5 posted on 01/12/2008 1:49:38 PM PST by NeoCaveman (It's a Texas Hold Em Primary and Fred is "All In" in South Carolina)
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past
I will not support Fred no matter what. His bad character is showing

How dare he respond with facts.

Had he brought up an over the counter medicine, he would be fine in your eyes? LOL

6 posted on 01/12/2008 1:49:39 PM PST by Mensius
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To: Mensius

Really funny Huckabee parody ad:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N50tYL1j7_E&watch_response


7 posted on 01/12/2008 1:49:53 PM PST by Bushwacker777
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past

Its bad character to produce facts?
Well maybe we have really gone down the wrong path and you have gotten used to the politically correct distortion of fact that makes a pseudo-conservative acceptable.
Long live character building. cough cough.


8 posted on 01/12/2008 1:53:00 PM PST by donnab (saving liberal brains...one moron at a time.)
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To: SolidWood

“Give ‘em hell, Fred!”

Yeah, both of them Fred! Don’t forget John, the pro-amnesty Gorebot!


9 posted on 01/12/2008 1:53:22 PM PST by devere
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past

My problem with Fred is he is only attacking Huckabee. He knows if he is going to have any chance at the nomination he needs to attack all the candidates ahead of him. It’s becoming apparent he is a front man for severe rino McCain.


10 posted on 01/12/2008 1:53:48 PM PST by Reagan79 (Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys)
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past

Please do explain - I’d love to see your reasoning as to how this shows “bad character.”


11 posted on 01/12/2008 1:53:58 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: Bushwacker777

Oh man, that was great!


12 posted on 01/12/2008 1:57:08 PM PST by roses of sharon
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past

Guess he’s been goring your sacred oxen a bit too much lately.

Calling Huckabee on his support of democrats as recently as 2000 is quite relevant to this campaign and is certainly fair game. After all, your sacred ox tossed the first “who voted for whom” stone.

You were never going to vote for him anyway. I bet with you it’s Huckabee or you stay home on election day.


13 posted on 01/12/2008 1:57:59 PM PST by Buckeye Battle Cry (Life is too short to go through it clenched of sphincter and void of humor - it's okay to laugh.)
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To: donnab

Huckabee supporters hate facts, kinda like their lying socialist pastor running for president.


14 posted on 01/12/2008 1:59:03 PM PST by Def Conservative (Huckabee called Republicans against his tax increases shiites.)
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past

“I will not support Fred no matter what. His bad character is showing. Fred moves to the bottom below Romney and Ron Paul.”

What kind of goodie two shoes statement is that? Fred is just now gettting going on what he should have done a couple months ago, draw stark lines of contrast between him and the other guys! It is not bad character to tell the truth! Guess it was ok for Huckabee to make the crack about Fred and metamucil? Guess it was ok for Huck to tell everyone that he wasn’t going to go negative with that ad on Romney and then show it to all the reporters so they could report it all over? Why don’t you go support the dems and be done with it!


15 posted on 01/12/2008 2:00:41 PM PST by gbscott1954 (Go Fred Go!)
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To: Def Conservative

Ever see “Idiocracy”? Huck reminds me of the president in the movie — not in look, just IQ (except the movie character was more likable).


16 posted on 01/12/2008 2:01:11 PM PST by Bushwacker777
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To: Reagan79

Voters are turned off by the attacks. Frankly, it appears that voters are turned off by Thompson in general. All I know is that I commit to never vote for him now that I see his nasty side.


17 posted on 01/12/2008 2:01:12 PM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past

Sounds like you might need some Metamucil!


18 posted on 01/12/2008 2:01:15 PM PST by Honeybunch ("Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind." ~Rudyard Kipling)
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To: Bushwacker777

That was hilarious!!!


19 posted on 01/12/2008 2:01:42 PM PST by Wneighbor
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To: Politicalmom

ping


20 posted on 01/12/2008 2:01:46 PM PST by Honeybunch ("Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind." ~Rudyard Kipling)
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