Posted on 01/31/2008 2:09:25 PM PST by Jim Robinson
My friends, I have to admit that I've been in a bit of a quandary since the Real Conservatives ® Thompson and Hunter dropped out of the race leaving us to to place our bets on one the four headless horsemen. But after having a day or three to sort it all out, I'm beginning to see a ray of hope.
Number one, my worst fear that the pro-abortion, pro-gay, anti-gun social liberal Rudy Giuliani might be nominated, and thereby bring an abrupt and unholy end to the pro-life conservative movement within the GOP has been allayed. His evil culture of death platform has been soundly rejected by the Republican voters. Thank God! If nothing else is gained, that alone is a huge victory for us!
And that leaves us with the unwelcome slippery task of having to determine and select the least evil of the three remaining RINOs. But wait! When choosing between evils, why not choose the good?
McCain is insane and there are many good reasons not to choose him, but I'll list just five: McCain-Feingold, McCain-Kennedy, McCain-Lieberman, the Keating 5, and the Gang of 14. No thanks. McCain is out!
Romney ran on a pro-abortion platform, is pro gay rights, is prone to BIG government solutions, promises anything to anyone for a vote, and flip-flops on important issues. Can't trust him.
Now Governor Huckabee. Could this be the good vs evil? He's a Baptist minister. A genuine 100% pro-God, pro-life, pro-family, pro-gun, Southron Christian social conservative!
And that would be my reason no. 1 to support Huckabee. He has the trust and backing of the Christian evangelicals and the support of the Bible Belt. You cannot win the presidency without the South, and I believe the pro-God, pro-life, pro-family, pro-gun, pro-America Mike Huckabee is the most likely of the three GOP hopefuls to carry the South. And that's a pretty darn good reason!
My number two reason is that he is NOT McCain (and that's a pretty darn good reason too).
Number three (and this will be a tough one for a lot of my FReeper Friends) is that he is NOT Romney.
Numbers four and five are he's NOT Hillary and NOT Obama. Oohrah!
Number six, he plays a mean bass and he's a traditional favorite at Free Republic's infamous quadrennial Inaugural Balls in Washington, DC. Perhaps we could persuade President Huckabee to drop by our ball and perform his rocking rendition of "Sweet Home Alabama!" Now, wouldn't that be a hoot!
Number seven, if we can keep Huckabee in the race all the way through, thus preventing McCain or Romney from gaining enough delegates to win the nomination, then maybe, just maybe a deadlocked convention might seek out another candidate. One who can re-unite the Reagan Coalition, save the GOP, and put us back on the conservative track. Of course, my personal favorite to be that man would be FRed Thompson.
Woo hoo!!
Let it ring out through grassroots America and on to the convention! Support life! Support the GOP! Support Huckabee! And re-draft FRed Thompson!!
Never give in, never give up, and never lose hope.
Long live the Reagan Revolution!
You laughing at my dogs Missy? Huh? They’ll gitcha if you don’t apologize right now. :)
Heck, now that I think about it, they’ve got ALL that ANYONE would need to vote for.
One’s a black color.
One’s a female.
They can’t hold a pen so they’d sign NO new laws.
And, they can be bought. With food.
Hmmmmmmmmmmm........I am ON to something.....
Maya Angelou the female one.
PETA should be a “paw-in”, too....
:)
The Wall Street Journal had a front page article about the campaign that said that Huckabee and Obama had secret independent groups funding their campaigns. Do you have any idea what that is all about?
The Keating One,' and Carl Lindner From 1981—the year before John McCain ran for U.S. Congress—until the early 1990s, the former Navy pilot was totally beholden to junk bond swindler Charles Keating for his political fortunes. When the S&L scandal exploded and Federal prosecutors were breathing down Keating's neck, it was McCain who tried to bully Federal regulators into backing off. While the affair became known as the "Keating Five" scandal, none of the other members of the Senate and House implicated in the ethics violations, were as closely tied to Keating as John McCain.
And Charles Keating was no "loan assassin." He was but one player in a larger organized crime apparatus that ran the $200 billion-plus rip-off, in what may have been the biggest actual RICO (racketeering) scheme ever.
Between 1959 and the late 1980s, Charles Keating was the business partner of Carl Lindner, the Cincinnati, Ohio-based financier who would be one of the central figures in the $200 billion S&L rip-off. In 1959, Lindner and Keating co-founded American Financial Corporation (AFC). Keating served as the mortgage and insurance company's general counsel, and later as vice president.
Between 1974 and 1976, Lindner and Keating engineered a series of stock purchases and mergers with some of the leading figures in the Lansky crime syndicate—who had followed the Bronfman family recipe, and gone from "rags, to rackets, to riches, to respectability."
#7 be carefull what you ask for Jim.
I couldn’t disagree more with you.
Huckabee, Lindler, McCain, Keating - Oh my, what a den of snakes.
This deserves a whole thread, but I am not up to the job. The Lindler connection came from the WSJ, and the rest of the information came from the web. This information could be enough to take out both Huckabee and McCain. It needs be talked about.
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Huck is nothing but a stalkinghorse for McSwine.
They’re as close and similar as two poops in a pucker.
Wish that your Number 7 would come to pass...but sadly I don’t believe that it will.
I can never support McCain for anything and therefore begrudgingly support Romney.
A vote for Huckabee is a vote for McCain.
***Here’s the counter argument:
Top Internet Evangelist says Romney Vote is a Vote for Satan
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1965566/posts
BTTT
BTTT
I wonder if Jim has realized that tonight...especially after WV.
You push unacceptable RINOs at your own risk. Run out all the conservatives and we're left with nothing but RINOs. It's also apparent that the primary GOP electorate does not trust RINOs with so much liberal baggage in their backgrounds, even if they swear on a stack of bibles that they will appoint constructionist judges, or they have seen the error in their ways and have converted. That doesn't work.
Next time, make sure your presidential candidate has a solid, reliable all around conservative record and no liberal garbage in his background so there's no question. And no need to push these liberal RINOs through the states or congress either. They'll only grow up to be unacceptable RudyMcRomeys.
Looks like the conservative wing pinned its hopes on too many unacceptable CINOs, split the vote and now the Country Club liberal RINO establishment wing of the party gets their man nominated. Too bad, so sad.
Of course it's early yet and anything can happen. Even miracles.
Still praying this morning, but I think the writing is on the wall.
I think the early uncertainty on the conservative side - waiting to see if Thompson was going to run, unsureness about Huckabee's viability, useless discussions about Mormonism, the clutter of Ron Paul - gave McCain time to gather strength from the middle and establish himself.
The fat lady isn't singing yet, but her opening act is finishing up.
I concur.
But Huckabee said he didn’t expect to have to vote for one of his opponents — he predicted he will win the nomination.“I still believe in miracles.”
And I still believe in the tooth fairy, Mike.
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