Being frugal is one thing, being cheap on dental care is another.
Posted on 01/30/2008 12:39:09 PM PST by NormsRevenge
Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee said Wednesday he has no intention of following Rudy Giuliani's planned exit from the GOP race and he dismissed suggestions that his candidacy could split the conservative vote and help rival Sen. John McCain.
With a narrowing Republican field, Huckabee could draw votes from Mitt Romney because of his strong support among the religious right - a possible boost for McCain.
"If the true conservatives are looking for a true conservative, they'll pick me. Romney's record is not a conservative record, his rhetoric is not conservative, even with what he's said and done," Huckabee said.
Huckabee surprised by winning the Iowa caucus, but has little money and finished a distant fourth in Florida.
The former Arkansas governor and Baptist preacher was in Newport Beach for a fundraiser at a supporter's home before traveling to Los Angeles for an Americans of Faith event and to Simi Valley for the GOP presidential debate.
Huckabee also pledged not to drop out of the race, despite his poor showing in recent primaries. He said he would focus his campaign on Southern states that are slated for the Tuesday round of primaries.
"Those are all states where we believe we are not only in play, but we are poised to win," he said.
"This boy isn't on the ropes. There's a saying in the South: 'It ain't the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog,'" Huckabee said.
His morning fundraiser in Newport Beach netted more than $100,000, according to organizers.
"Our campaign is so frugal we could go a month on that," Huckabee quipped to about 200 boisterous supporters and volunteers.
Huckabee also was schedule to attend a dinner fundraiser in Thousand Oaks.
But it might be in a popcorn popper.
BS...he’s helping McCain win.
Nope, it's lying on the canvas with the referee up to 8.
Didn’t he mean his vice-presidential campaign?
Yet .....
Probably. Huckabee needs to pull a William Miller after 1964, and never get involved in politics again.
The man has been on a down hill run since those nuts in Iowa and he is to dumb to know it.
Being frugal is one thing, being cheap on dental care is another.
He is uninformed and/or stupid. His statement about WMD and Jordan, if uttered by a conservative, would have driven MSM ballistic.
Duncan Hunter: “I got to know Governor Huckabee well on the campaign trail,” said Hunter. “Of the remaining candidates I feel that he is strongly committed to strengthening national defense, constructing the border fence and meeting the challenge of China’s emergence as a military superpower that is taking large portions of America‚s industrial base.”
“Along with these issues of national security, border enforcement and protecting the U.S. industrial base, I see another quality of Mike Huckabee’s candidacy that compels my endorsement. Mike Huckabee is a man of outstanding character and integrity. I saw that character over the last year of campaigning and was greatly impressed. The other Republican candidates have many strengths and I wish them all well. My personal choice is Mike Huckabee,” Hunter concluded.
HUCKABEE only mentioned one person for Secretary of Defense, DUNCAN HUNTER:
‘‘What you do,’’ he [Huckabee]explained, 'is surround yourself with the best possible advice.’ The only name he [Huckabee] mentioned was Representative Duncan Hunter of California. ‘Duncan is extraordinarily well qualified to be secretary of Defense,’ he [Huckabee] said.
Hunter undoubtedly had a closer look at Huckabee than conservative media commentators who have never met Huckabee or people commenting on a forum who have never bothered to research original sources or take a close look at what Huckabee actually says rather than what others are saying about him.
HUCKABEE/HUNTER '08
He’s a surly one that sHuckster is I tells ya.
“BS...he’s helping McCain win.”
and he and mcpain are equally soft on shamnesty - birds of a feather
There...that makes more sense.
Probably. Huckabee needs to pull a William Miller after 1964, and never get involved in politics again.
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B.S.! If Huckabee loses he needs to go home and beat the snot out of one of the Arkansas Dem Senators and go to Washington. The group think here at FR is too thick; you’re mentally taking one of the most engaging, funny, and TOUGH politicians I’ve ever seen and trying to caste him into the outer darkness.
How nice of him not to say anything negative about McQueeg. What a swell guy. What a good Christian.
This guy’s almost as big a POS as Queeg. I can’t believe Hunter endorsed this lying sack.
any comment?
Huck lies before God. Huck is in this to help McCain. McCain knew that somehow he had to neutralize the Conservative base. Huck was part of that strategy. McCain's first order as President will be to issue EO's giving defacto Amnesty and 2nd, he will carry out a plan to "punish" the conservative base. McCain is a very vengeful, petty man. May God grant us a miracle and not have McCain as our nominee. Our Republic is truly at risk.
Well, if I had to guess, I’d say it looks like it is on the ropes. But who knows. They said that about McQueeg too, and look what has happened.
Funny how all of Huck’s verbal shots are directed at Romney and none at the frontrunner McCain. Hmmm, seems like an odd way to stay in the race...
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