Damn. Foiled by Fox again.
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!
Bullcrap. Increasing state spending by 65% is almost unheard of. He's a spender of the 1st order. A taxer of the 3rd order.
I think that’s the very point the writer is making! Our best bet is that Huck will get enough support to keep either of the other two from getting enough to sew it up. Getting to the convention without a winner would the best thing that could happen for those of us who are so very unhappy with where we find ourselves.
An open convention could give us back any of those who have dropped out to this point.
The convention is still a long way off as political things go. A lot could change between now and then, plus we could know a whole lot more about the various people who might be nominated.
McCain can’t even promise that he won’t sign McCain-Kennedy if it lands on his table, all he says is “it won’t get there”.
Please post a link to the Huckabee video where he swears to preserve, protect and defend the right of a woman to murder her unborn child.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_w9pquznG4
Yes campaingn promises are worth diddly squat.
However I am not willint to give a “pass” based on being a guitar base player.
We need a state by state analysis.
romeny and mccain have to be close together with romney just over the top for a brokered convention to work.
If mccain has the lead he gets to cut deals with him as the president.
If the goal is to stop mccain, not just to have a brokered convention, then it all the tactics have to be driven and compromised to that goal.
It all depends on the ultimate goal.
President Kerry failed to report for duty.
Case dismissed.
I have seven good reasons to vote for Huckabee:/s
1.He hates Fred Thompson, Mitt Romney, and loves McCain.
2.He is for amnesty so illegals won’t live in the shadows.
3.He is for closing Guantanamo so terrorists have rights.
4.He likes the government to tell folks how to live healthy and wants a national no smoking ban.
5.He likes to raise taxes on the rich.
6.He promises the death of the IRS but knows it won’t happen.
7.He thinks he has a good chance to be McCain’s VP.
Everyone keeps missing the point. We don’t want Huck to take it, just get enough delegates to keep anyone else from getting it too.
Of course he can’t win, but he can sure help us get to the convention without a winner and that’s what we need at this point.
My goal is to elect conservatives. Free Republic’s goal is to elect conservatives. Romney is NO conservative.
Damn. Foiled by Fox again.
So sorry... LOL.... it all started here.
(PS ... what ever became of your cross country documentary .. what? ... 6, 7 years ago?)
I finished it, and then forgot about it. LOL. I made a couple of little ones since then (here, and here) that are actually viewable tho'...
= )
It doesn’t affect anything when he has no power to change anything. He was wrong, but those murders weren’t blood on his hands. Attack him for his position all you want, to hold him personally responsible for those abortions is unfair.
Got to hand it to the guy. He is so slick. He sold that line and now he’s got our side eating out of his hand.
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