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Posted on 01/13/2008 6:35:51 AM PST by jdm
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- Mike Huckabee broadened his populist-inspired appeal for support in Michigan on Saturday, saying he viewed his presidential campaign as a "cause" that represents a threat to the Republican establishment in Washington.
With polls showing support in Michigan's Republican primary Tuesday to be extremely fluid among Mitt Romney, John McCain and Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor also lashed out at candidates who campaign on a theme of opposing abortion but do little about it when they get into office.
"We're people who will no longer just allow people to get elected, promising that they're listening to us about the sanctity of human life," Huckabee said. "We want to elect people who will do something about protecting human life."
Speaking to about 400 people in a ballroom at the Amway Grand Plaza Hotel, Huckabee said he loved being in the GOP, "but I love my country even more."
"I'm asking you today to be a part of something that is a lot more than just a campaign. I want to think it's a cause," Huckabee said.
"Apparently my candidacy comes as somewhat of a threat to a lot of the Republicans in the Republican establishment -- some of the folks who have run the party in the Washington circles," he said. "They've maybe not understood that the heart and soul of the Republican Party is only as strong as the heart and soul of the rest of America."
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and still is a demorat! Probably aways will be.
Mean Mister Metamucil sleeps in the park
Shaves in the dark trying to save paper
Sleeps in a hole in the road
Saving up to buy some clothes
Keeps a ten-bob note up his nose
Such a mean old man
Such a mean old man
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Hey, no one can say that word "threat" like President GWB.
Remember that big press conference GWB had not too long ago when he kept referencing, 'if there is a threat... I will stand up to that threat" ... and so on.
Something about the way GWB's lips form the word threat that just sticks in my mind.
It's like strategery and misunderestimate and other words GWB has added to the lexicon.
Deplorable Campaigning [Mark R. Levin - NRO, 01/13 10:49 AM]
Mike Huckabee: "Many of us who have been Republicans out of conviction . . . the social conservatives," he told reporters, "were welcomed in the party as long as we sort of kept our place, but Lord help us if we ever stood forward and said we would actually like to lead the party." More here.
Huckabee continues to use his faith as a weapon against those who question not his faith, but his political populism — much of which he shares with secular progressives. And he is clearly hoping to stir up resentment among Evangelical Christians against the other elements of the conservative movement and Republican Party as a way of encouraging them to vote in the caucuses and primaries. This is a tactic right out of Saul Alinsky's playbook. Of course he wants us to believe the Reagan coalition is dead because he cannot win with it intact. But he cannot win either the nomination or presidency with the narrow focus of his appeal. This is why I find Mike Huckabee's tactics and candidacy so deplorable.
With the CFR in charge of his foreign policy, not hardly.
Notice how the MSM forgets to mention this?
Maybe Huck-a-bass and Clinton-blow-sax can play together for a fund raiser for Hildabeast?
If Huck does well in the primaries, but doesn’t get the nom and lists to run as an independent....the GOP will lose and I think Rhino-Schmuck is in bed with the Clinton’s to do just that.
Sounds good to me!
I want to again throw out this challenge that Establishment Republicans are using against Huckabee:
It is widely said on FR that Huckabee raised taxes. The trick to this is reporting that revenue to the government increased under his leadership.
I am still waiting for someone to show me where a Conservative Governor cut taxes (which Huckabee did) and the revenue to the government did not increase?
We all know this is what happens with tax cuts yet disingenous advocates such as CATO are using this to prove that Huckabee wants to raise taxes.
I think most of the arguments I read against Huckabee at FR are hyperbole and lacking in substance.
Huckabee IS the establishment...
Bush is pro-national security and pro-tax cuts. Huck is neither. Except for his border policies and unwillingness to veto spending, he is generally conservative. Huck is WAY left of Bush.
No he isn't..and FR knows it first hand...don't even try to go there.
Thats why he had to resort to his childish retort to Fred’s attack. He knows he could not refute it factually.
Yes, I recall the Establishment consistently viewing Huckabee as the preferred candidate to win. It was not Giuliani or McCain that were the preferred candidates, it was Huckabee.
Its so good to see those weak outsiders McCain and Giuliani struggling to make it through the pack and get to the top.
Thanks for the clarification.
Do I detect another Clintonista posting here?
Nasty business, revenue increases that only occur after tax increases.
Yuck, another Clintonista pretending to be for Huck.
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Oh please. Unless your definition of establishment is a narrow one that means the GOP in DC, Huckabee is the establishment candidate, contrary to popular belief the establishment types are moderate and would be just fine with a Huckabee candidacy.
The fiscal conservatives are the outsiders nowadays (used to be the other way around) and you can tell from the way the party doesn’t even pay attention to them. Think about it, out of the top tier we have- Huckabee (who’s fiscal record is dismal), McCain who called Bush’s tax cuts “tax cuts for the rich, and Romney who’s health plan reeks of socialism.
Social conservatives run the party now, the old establishment is out and the Reagan Democrats are in.
They screen the candidates and they can't stand Huckabee.
I'd love to slap them in the face with a socon evangelical. It would serve them right for presenting us with liberal R's. If my wallet is going to get raped anyway, at least I get to choose the one to "love it up" with.
Huckabee’s ego is larger than his effect on anything.
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