"Fred hurt us in South Carolina," Beasley began. "He had one goal and one goal only -- to distort Mike Huckabee's record so John McCain could pull it out. No ifs, ands or buts about it...
Posted on 01/19/2008 9:11:03 PM PST by FocusNexus
It's clear who Huckabee camp is blaming for its squeaker of a loss in South Carolina: Fred Thompson.
After Huckabee's gracious concession speech -- in which he had nothing but kind words for John McCain who he said showed great "civility" -- former SC Gov. David Beasley, a Huckabee surrogate, railed against Thompson.
"Fred hurt us in South Carolina," Beasley began. "He had one goal and one goal only -- to distort Mike Huckabee's record so John McCain could pull it out. No ifs, ands or buts about it...
"Thompson came here and just went to the areas where he could gut Huckabee. I have no doubt in my mind, it was Washington politics at its worst.
"One thing about Fred; I love Fred, but Fred's not stupd...I don't think he had any intention in South Carolina but to hurt Mike Huckab... Had Fred Thompson not been in the race, this would have been an overwhelming, dynamic victory for Mike Huckabee."
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Exactly. Fred likely would have won had Huckabee not been in the race. That’s just the nature of primaries where there are more than two people running.
I truly believe Fred tried his heart out for a victory. Fred would not have put his heart and soul into his campaign to merely to help McCain. I really hoped Fred would pull this off, but at least he brought Huckabee down a notch or two. I think he did our party a great service.
FoxNews just mentioned McCain’s “gang of 14”, which prevented the passing of a bill to not allow filibustering on judicial nominees, but give them an up or down vote. McCain is also the author and the one who pushed through the “Terrorist Protection Bill”, where not only harsh interrogation is not allowed, but not even doing anything that might “offend” those darling terrorists, even if a city gets nuked.
As for Huckabee, learn about his liberal record, just left of John Edwards.
Meet Mike Huckabee, the Speech Police
Club for Growth Releases Updated Huckabee White Paper
http://www.clubforgrowth.com/2007/11/updated_huckabee_white_paper.php
TAxes:
Immediately upon taking office, Governor Huckabee signed a sales tax hike in 1996 to fund the Games and Fishing Commission and the Department of Parks and Tourism.[5]
He supported an internet sales tax in 2001.[6]
He publicly opposed the repeal of a sales tax on groceries and medicine in 2002.[7]
He signed bills raising taxes on gasoline (1999), cigarettes (2003)[8], and a $5.25 per day bed-tax on private nursing home patients in 2001.[9]
He proposed another sales take hike in 2002 to fund education improvements.[10]
He opposed a congressional measure to ban internet taxes in 2003.[11]
In 2004, he allowed a 17% sales tax increase to become law.[12]
Wow, what a choice. Someone I don’t trust vs. ummm, somone I don’t trust.
On the bright side, we’ve had, what, 5 or 6 primaries out of 50 states? And none of the primary states were in the major league category (such as CA, NY, FL, etc.). Guess we’ll find out whether Guiliani’s strategy to wait for a major state is a good strategy or not.
That means everybody drops out but Mccain and Romney because they are the only ones who have won so far
This comes from Ed Rollins who looks nuttier every time I see him interviewed.
Huck picked a horrible campaign manager who will become serious baggage at some point.
““Fred Thompson did his job. He couldn’t help McCain win in 2000 as national co-chair but tonight he helped him win. I don’t want to take away anything from McCain, he has been here for eight years, and he had great organization. We knew it would be close,” Rollins said, adding Thompson “split votes for us. He knows he’s not viable, he’s not going to win and isn’t really campaigning but did enough to do his job.”
That quote is from fox news headline story on SC.
Reagan outspent the Soviets. That’s ALL Fred needs to do to Huckachuckles.....they’re splitting the same demographic and Huck’s portion would have NOBODY else to go to BUT Fred.
That’s why I made another donation tonight. Fred is on a roll and until HE says it’s over.....it ain’t over.
To hell with the Huckster’s camp. Fred went there to win for himself. There’s no conspiracy here.
If Fred drops out, I guess it’s Romney then. I will have nothing to do with Mike Huckabee or John McCain, and Rudy is toast, anyhow. At least Mitt Romney has a squeaky clean home life, is intelligent and has met a payroll.
Sad...
Don’t hold your breath. You can’t straighten out a dog’s tail.
This really bothers me, because the only distortions being thrown about seemed to be by proponents of Huckabee.
Poor show.
“I can’t get past the amnesty deal that McCain made with Kennedy. It is a deal breaker for me.”
Bingo!! I don’t agree with your second part, though. I don’t care what he puts on paper. There’s a difference between crossing the aisle (bipartisanship) and just plain bending over. McCain tried to bend the whole nation over (and we didn’t even get dinner and a movie first).
Huckabee couldn’t buy my vote!
I hope Fred stays in, regardless of the outcome of the voting. He’s picking up at least some delegates. He’ll have some bargaining position in an open convention. He’s the only one I trust.
Hang in there, Fred.
Take a flying leap at a rolling donut, Huckastupid.
Huckabee’s team.... I’m gaining more and more disrespect for this man and his team. Definitely not Presidential.
First, let’s get something on the table: I have never in my life been MORE disgusted with a politician - not Nixon, not Clinton, not nobody - than I was tonight when I saw Mike Huckabee have the ASTOUNDING gall to stand up and say that the top two finisher ran a clean campaign and he was proud that he finished as he did “honorably”
I have moved from finding the man an unacceptable candidate, all the way to finding him a clear and present danger not just to his party, but to his faith and to his nation - I would not only vote for Hillary Clinton over this man, in a two horse race I would CAMPAIGN for her.
That being the case, IF we postulate - just for the sake of argument - that Thompson’s only purpose in the race is to take out Huckabee (laughable on the face of it since Thompson got in when EVERYONE thought Huckabee’s campaign would be as stillborn as Tommy Thompson’s and Tom Tancrado’s but still, for the sake of argument...) then I can only say that Fred Thompson has done as much for this nation in so doing as McCain did in all his years of military service, if not more.
I despise everything McCain holds dear, politically, I hate him with a passion for his repeated undermining of conservative principles but even so, having seen what I have seen in the last month from Huckabee, it’s an easy slam dunk for me to recognize that a Huckabee nomination is about 40,000,000 times worse for our party, our faith, and our country, as a McCain nomination is.
The pundits are so full of nonsense. Mike Huckabee can barely capture Southern Baptist evangelicals. He has played the spoiler in this nomination process with his identity politics and populism.
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