Huckabee presents the best choice for Reagan supporters

Gwinnett Daily Post ^ | 1-22-2008 | U.S. Rep. John Linder, R-GA

[Emperor Palpatine]

Huckabee needs to first control his own failure of a family before he could ever hope to be elected to any office again.

His son is a dog-torturer and killer. The Huckster used the influence of his office to derail any police investigation of that incident.

And you support this collectivist theocrat? Maybe someone should question your possession of good sense, sir.

Incidentally, the last time I was in Arkansas, the roads were terrible and I prayed driving over their rickety “structurally deficient” bridges. So much for your spin on why Elmer Gantry raised taxes.

[longtermmemmory]

Mike would replace those taxes on income with a sales tax..

Does not mention that his proposal included the LARGES ENTITLEMENT PROGRAM SINCE THE GREAT SOCIETY DEBACLE. Does not mention that only the name will change the IRS will still be there under a new name. Huckabee is out of money and his usefullness to the MSM is done. Another useful idiot bites the dust.

[longtermmemmory]

what do consenting adults do in their own self postings is their own business until the moderator notices...

[ejonesie22]

Small?

You are to kind.

I was thinking fully fortified with manure.

[Sola Veritas]

“Inform me. What danger does Mormonism pose for Christianity?”

Simply put, it is a counterfeit. Someone reaching for the real thing might pick up the phoney. It is like having an important medicine on a shelf where someone has subsituted poison for the real thing but in the same bottle with the same labe. They drink it to get better, but wind up dead.

Also, whereas most Christian denominations would never advocate taking away freedom of conscience (thus allowing mormons to worship as they please), if mormons ever get in substantial power they will in subtile ways attempt to suppress other faiths not their own. I know this is a hard sell to get folks to believe this. Mormonism is not all Donny and Marie smiles.

If you really want to understand this, there are others here on FR that can explain this issue much better than myself.

[Invincibly Ignorant]

Simply put, it is a counterfeit. Someone reaching for the real thing might pick up the phoney. It is like having an important medicine on a shelf where someone has subsituted poison for the real thing but in the same bottle with the same labe. They drink it to get better, but wind up dead.

I'm not mormon. Your opinion is subjective. Religious persuasions should have nothing to do with our elections. Especially since Mormonism and Christianity are quite similar.

Also, whereas most Christian denominations would never advocate taking away freedom of conscience (thus allowing mormons to worship as they please), if mormons ever get in substantial power they will in subtile ways attempt to suppress other faiths not their own. I know this is a hard sell to get folks to believe this. Mormonism is not all Donny and Marie smiles.

BS. Christianity is not all fluff either. As a matter of fact Christianity has a more violent history than Mormonism. What you post is crap.

If you really want to understand this, there are others here on FR that can explain this issue much better than myself.

I've been over to the religious threads. None of those Christians who hang out on the Mormon bashing threads have yet to explain anything to my satisfaction.

[unspun]

Well, God bless ya — keep your flame retardant’s on.

I’ll take one exception to this article. I strongly doubt a Pres. Huckabee would nominate a Sandra Day O’Connor.

[CindyDawg]

It would make me like him a lot better if he would announce DH as his running mate. We need to know now.

[DLfromthedesert]

Does he buy into the scam of man made global warming?

[unspun]

You might as well forget trying to talk sense to anyone on Free Republic. They've been imbibing the Rush-Coulter-Thompson Kool-Aid for so long, it doesn't even matter what the truth is anymore. They believe Huckabee is a "SOCIALIST!!" because he actually expected taxpayers to pay for necessary government functions like schools and highway-building instead of charging them to his grandkids' credit card, like the "real conservatives" in Washington (Thompson, for example). Never mind that most of the charges against him are a load of garbage that has been widely debunked, and are mostly things taken wildly out of context. Their personal Jesus, the Almighty Fred, spake unto them that Huckabee is Satan, and that is that. So now, they're flocking to either McCain (which I believe is the sole reason Fred even announced: to help his buddy McCain and be the VP, yet another job with no executive responsibility or heavy lifting) or Romney.

That's right: they're actually so brainwashed, they believe the ROMNEY family member who was governor of MASSACHUSETTS and just a few years ago was slamming anything to the right of Ted Kennedy is the REAL conservative, while the Baptist Republican from Arkansas is the wild-eyed leftist.

The sad and frustrating part for me is that I've worked in the media for 30 years, I have a close relative who worked very high up in the RNC in DC and goes all the way back to being a Reagan delegate in '76, and I know a lot of these people personally. Party insiders have been telling me for months that Huckabee was really the most conservative candidate who actually had a chance of winning because of his communications skills and appeal to working class voters (who used to be called Reagan Democrats), but he was going to be destroyed by the big money GOP establishment for the same reason they tried to destroy Reagan to give us Ford: because they would rather remain in control of a shrunken, out-of-power party than allow anyone to rise to power in it who wasn't part of their Harvard-Yale-Wall Street cabal. And all you people fell in line, piled on Huckabee and helped them. Congratulations for slitting your own throats.

My nomination for yesterday's Post of the Day.

The GOP and conservative talk radio are being dominated by those who believe "conservatism" is a cover for egocentrism and, frankly, greed. When they hear words like "care," or "compassion," it is their nature to think "Why, that has to mean that someone is after my money!"

Huckabee has, on occasion, talked about the responsibilities of Christians and they think "Government! Taxing me! Gasp!!" when Huckabee wasn't even speaking about government.

Alas, FR is being dominated by the same sad mentality.

"Is not life more important than food....?"

[unspun]

Does he buy into the scam of man made global warming?

Huckabee hasn't taken the bait about that. He puts off the question and speaks of the need to conserve, protect the enviorment and acheive energy independence. He is trying to redirect attention and people-energy from the former to the latter -- which I think is excellent statesmanship.

[unspun]

He has famously spoken of Hunter as someone who would make an excellent Sec. of Defense.

[DLfromthedesert]

But does he have the courage to say outright that it’s a scam?

[unspun]

But does he have the courage to say outright that it’s a scam?

Reading into things, but I suspect he would think of that as a way of losing the ability to lead. He has said that he does not know to what extent the environment is affected by such things as carbon gasses.

It's going to take a mound of evidence over time, to pull most of the alarmists heads out of their, um, askew views.

[CindyDawg]

Maybe Thompson then:’)

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

The Lord must be rolling his eyes over the misuse of Christianity. Give us to Ceaser what is Ceasers and to the Lord what is the Lords.

My thoughts exactly. Huck is using the Lord's name in vain.

[CindyDawg]

I think Hunter supporters are kind of in shock and some FRs are taking advantage, and pounding. All these accusations can be rebutted but as for me... I’m too tired to defend him...right now

[unspun]

John Thompson, former Georgetown basketball coach

[unspun]

Hopefully it won’t take as much time as teaching a global warming alarmist the truth about solar radiation....

[allmendream]

So unspun? Ever source that quote about a ‘classless society’ to Lincoln or Jefferson; or is it still just Karl Marx?