Southern Fried Feud: Thompson vs. Huckabee Gets Uglier and Uglier

abcnews ^ | 01/13/08 | JAKE TAPPER

[khnyny]

LOL. Does this mean Huckabee is a potty mouth?

Huckabee WANTS TO CLOSE GUANTANAMO and bring the suspected terrorists into the US. Hello....

[Petronski]

Fred is now more like Reagan was then. Reagan knew foreign policy, so does Fred.

Huckster?   LOL, no. He doesn't have a clue.

Reagan loathed class envy as a tool of the left. Fred doesn't engage in class envy politics.

Huckster?   ROFLOL He loves the class envy politics.

Reagan and Fred both want smaller, less-intrusive government. Huckster wants to tell us how and what to eat.

[Tax-chick]

I don’t care what either of them did in the 1976 or 1980 campaigns, unless it was something illegal. I care about what they’re likely to do in 2009-12 if elected!

[Petronski]

The NEA loves Huck. The NEA hated (and probably still hates) Reagan. Fred has publicly attacked the NEA.

[khnyny]

I don’t care what either of them did in the 1976 or 1980 campaigns, unless it was something illegal. I care about what they’re likely to do in 2009-12 if elected!

I'm sorry, but the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior.

[Petronski]

Huck wants to close Gitmo and bring those bastards here, where they’ll have habeas corpus protection and trial defense by the ACLU.

[Cicero]

Hmm. CNN, ABC, everybody’s saying that Fred’s gone mean and negative. And here I thought they were telling us he was just lazy and doing nothing.

Looks to me as if the DNC is faxing around some new talking points on how to handle Fred. New propaganda line: Don’t bury Fred and keep saying he’s lazy. Say he’s mean and negative. New talking points. Get with the program, MSN.

[Soliton]

I don’t care what either of them did in the 1976 or 1980 campaigns, unless it was something illegal.

Then stop mentioning Reagan and Thompson in the same breath.

[Petronski]

I'm sorry, but the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior.

So you're saying a President Huckster is going to jack up our taxes and take unethical donations?

[ellery]

Thompson is working hard to preserve the Reagan coalition of social conservatives, small government conservatives and national security hawks.

Huckabee’s campaign has declared that the Reagan coalition is dead.

[Petronski]

Then stop mentioning Reagan and Thompson in the same breath.

Why? Their positions are similar in many ways.

[BlueHorseShoe]

Huckabee gained attention with his quick and witty one liners in overcrowded debates in which that style served him well. And while I would never even consider supporting him for president I love someone with a great sense of humor as much as the next guy. But Huckabee's humor is wearing thin.

I think the media loves it because they think the entertainment aspect is important and will keep us watching. Hey, they're shallow - go figure! But this is for a deadly serious election and at some point those little quips are just enough already! I want a serious grown up in the White House and one whom I can trust to make the serious decisions facing our country. That just isn't a joke.

[Invincibly Ignorant]

I'm sorry, but the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior.

Oh is that right? Your past behavior should always follow you? Gee that's not what the Huck used to preach before he decided going into politics.

[yellowhammer]

"...doesn't walk into a situation with foreign representatives and heads of foreign nations with training wheels on."

Heh. Good one by Fred

[Soliton]

things I want us to do as a party and through this election process is once again make sure that people understand that when we lower taxes, when we cut spending, when we have a strong national defense, when we stick to our principles on the sanctity of human life and the primacy of traditional marriage and we also unapologetically hold to the idea that the second amendment is just as precious as the first amendment and in fact without the second, we don’t have the first, because we have no way to protect it. All of those things were a part of that Reagan coalition. I was part of it in 1979. a lot of the evangelicals who became part of helping Ronald Reagan to be elected. Over the year, sometimes republicans have thought that one part of that coalition was more important than the other. I think they’re all important and weapon need to recapture it.

[Invincibly Ignorant]

Since you and Huck can’t put up any kind of argument based on issues I guess I’m going to have to conclude the only thing that matters to you in picking a candidate is who can scream Jesus the loudest.

[Mr Rogers]

He supported another REPUBLICAN nominee. That is fair enough, in my book.

Please find a Reagan quote using class envy to win votes, and maybe I’ll re-think that Huckabee fellow. Until then, his John Edwards approach to life, his sense of entitlement while in office, his taking the drapes when he left and his use of religion to try to buy votes will continue to disgust me.

[NavVet]

Who are Huckabee’s advisors. You criticize a guy for supporting a fellow Repulican from your own state, when you’ve much more recently supported Democrats!!!

[don-o]

I think that Thompson wants to knock out the Huck

[statered]

Which is exactly why we don’t need the Huckster. He talks a good game on taxes, immigration, etc, but his past behavior tells us otherwise. When confronted with it he cannot respond substantively. What a petty, ugly man he is.