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!
Sure Huckabee the man who raised the dysfuncitonal family!
Huck never got so high in this race for all of his pass deeds showed up!
He’s said he’s had a change of heart, and either way there was nothing he could do to ban abortions in MA. If you’re going to blame him for them simply because he was the governor, are you going to blame the abortions in Arkansas on Huckabee?
number 7 will not get you Thompson.
the only way to a thompson in a brokered convention is to keep huckabee’s numbers as low as possible.
IOW don’t vote for huckabee.
Vote for Romney so that he will be tied or just over McCain but not over the top. This has the effect of forcing the two BIG camps to talk and thus shut out huckabee and kookpaul.
You don’t want to force a VP power point to huckabee by giving him king maker delegates.
Well, there you have it. That’s why McCain is winning. Economic conservatives like me won’t vote for McCain or Huckabee no matter what. Social conservatives won’t vote for Romney. So the conservatives are split, and the mushy RINO’s are all voting for McCain.
I'm more cynical than that. Huckabee did some research to find out who the most committed tax group was. IOW, what group would sign onto his campaign if he paid them lip service. His information came back with "Fair Taxers." He said, "Okey dokey, fair tax it is."
Pandering is worse than being wrong and proud.
I hadn’t even heard of a brokered convention ‘til about 2 weeks ago. I have no clue how one even works. I’m anxious to read everybody’s ideas of why one might and why one might not. As I got farther down the thread folks were starting to comment on that.
Fantastic!
Take that all you Romney-is-the-second-coming bandwagon crowd!
(I don’t have strong animosity toward Romney, I just trust him even less than Huck)
Will this be the end of the anti-Huckabee hysteria??
You will notice that I did not include Hunter in my list. His endorsement can be understood. He's pro 2A, pro-life and he was snubbed by the party establishment, just like Huckster. Plus, Hunter has a protectionist streak in him which dovetails alright with Huckabee's populism.
I guess you didn't read the rest of my post.
If Kerry had won Ohio, he would have won without the need of ANY of the southern states. G.W. Bush is in the White House today... because he won Ohio, which was a contested state with the end results being fairly close.
What's the political forecast in Ohio TODAY?
I rest MY case... :)
- John
Yes, I will take Tom Tancredo's judgment and expertise on immigration issues over Gilchirst's. Gilchrist is having his own problems with the split of the Minutemen movement.
Yeah, I'm sure Massachusetts had the same amount of illegal immigration problems as a southern state near the border. And those sanctuary cities must have been my imagination.
Illegal immigration has metastasized around the country. It is no longer a border state issue. I can tell that living here in Northern VA, it is a major issue. Romney has a good record in his state compared to Huckabee. For example, he fought against in-state tuition for illegals and he obtained 287 [g] authority for state law enforcement officials. Huckabee is rated lower than Romney by Numbers USA in terms of their actual records.
I am an immigration activist who has spent almost two weeks following the McCain campaign around SC and FL. I will take Romney over Huckabee on immigration and so will my colleagues. It is not even close.
If I’m locking in a concentration camp in 1940. I’d prefer my guard to be a non-principled will do anything for money panderer than a proud and principled Nazi.
Proud and wrong can be worse than pandering depending on how proud and how wrong your are.
Right. Romney promises now to be pro-life. NOW that he wants to be president. And Huckabee promises to secure the borders. Hell, even McCain NOW promises to secure the borders. And Giuliani promised to appoint strict constructionists. Campaign promises are worth diddly squat.
Words don’t fail me.
Voting for Huckabee would be the same as voting for Carter all over again. NO THANKS.
Thank you, it gave me a chuckle, I needed it.
You cant stop McCain by supporting Huckabee. You just can’t. The old divide and conquer is why McCain is where he is right now.
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