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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!
Thanks.
“Well what about the life of the baby?”
Sounds good to me.
"Deborah Roe?" (you mean Norma McCorvey!)
So, let's say McCorvey has been "pro-life" for 6 months, and then publicly says: "I am absolutely committed to my promise to maintain the status quo with regards to laws relating to abortion and choice." [Romney quote from 6 & 1/2 half months post "conversion"].
So if Norma says something like that, your ears wouldn't perk up?
What about if Norma does a number of pro-life things; a few things not so pro-life...but then is solidly in our "camp"...even touring the country, proclaiming how "pro-life" she is.
And then your ears perk up even more as she states the following:
"I was always for life” [Romney statement in South Carolina, Feb. 8, 2007]
"I never called myself pro-choice. I never allowed myself to use the word pro-choice because I didn't FEEL I was pro-choice. I would protect the law, I said, as it was, but I wasn't pro-choice, and so..." [Romney statement to Chris Wallace of Fox News, Aug. 12, 2007]
So, flaglady, would that make Norma McCorvey, according to your analogy, a life-long pro-lifer? "always pro-life?" "wasn't pro-choice?"
Romney was always personally pro-life as evidenced by his 5 sons and his 11 grandchildren...
(Yeah, we all know that abortionists never have any kids; nor do abortion lobbyists; nor do pro-abortion legislators)
Historically, just 'cause a slave owner released some of his slaves didn't make him "anti-slavery" (if we was keeping others on the plantation).
...moral purists like you...
Well, I'll let Mr. Moral Purist himself, Mr. Ansel, answer for himself as to how pure he is. But just based upon 5-6 distinct statements Romney made in 2007, I would say he doesn't hold that there's much of a distinctive between a pro-life and "pro-choice" position. (So it's "purity" to expect someone to actually to be able to distinguish some clarity that those two positions aren't roughly the same?)
Seeing as all of your comments are out of context and therefore impossible to respond to, I won’t. Romney has been consistently pro-life now since the stem cell issue came before him as Gov in MA. Now, you can try to denigrate his thank goodness, pro-life stance, and you do, but I will ignore you because you are another irrational Romney hater. Impossible to deal with.
I completely agree with you my friend. Huckabee is the one.
That's a slanderous LIE. I gaurantee you you can't site a reputable source for that. The fact that you would post something like that and know it's a lie is offensive. LIAR!!! Did you lose your way from the DemocraticUnderworld?
Jim,
He already did.
Thanks Jim
Abortion was generally restricted or outlawed in most states prior to Roe v Wade, yet 7 idiots disregarded the will of the people and repealed all federal and state laws banning it.
If hearts and minds are what are important... nominating conservative justices to reverse it, would not be the huge issue it is today.
Granted, winning hearts and minds are important, but is not ultimately what is going to reverse Roe v Wade.
He started his campaign out the way he did to appeal to evengelicals.
Then at Christmas in his ad, he tried to deny that his ad was sending a message.
I was merely responding to the poster that wondered why people were so against Huck.
His Arkansas record isn’t all that great. That turns people off too. None of these candidates have great conservative records.
Can’t you have a discussion without having a big chip on your shoulder?
I am not a Mittbot. I am not a Morman. I am a person that is weary of the religious battle that has been waged in this election.
It has opened the door for a guy like McCain. He hates all religious people .
In the end, neither Huckbots or Mittbots will get their way.
Just the way it is.
1 is because of his religion.
5 of the reasons are “because he isn’t (insert name here)!
1 is because he might end up being the spoiler at the Convention.
Not one reason is because of what his policies are.
What a lousy way to pick a leader!
“In the end, neither Huckbots or Mittbots will get their way.
Just the way it is.”
Sounds good to me. I’m not voting for McCain either. Get rid of all of them and lets have a brokered convention and get a REAL conservative in there.
I have my reasons for not backing him...his anti-smoking push for Arkansas, his stance on illegals, raising taxes here, and a couple more. Taxes and anti-smoking being the top.
But I just learned something on the raising taxes. Huck raised taxes in Arkansas only a fraction percentage-wise that Romney did! That fact alone put him far above Romney in my book!
It will come as a shock to my Arkansas friends, but The Huck just very well may get my vote Tuesday!
Not a chance....WWII vet, greatest generation, etc.
They ALWAYS vote.
And they ALWAYS vote Defense conservative....whether it’s LBJ, Nixon, Reagan, or Bush.
It’s ALWAYS Defense conservative. I guarantee that if the Dems were to run some 4-Star general, they would vote the best Defense Conservative.
I voted Huckabee. Let’s hope the MSM McCain push and the Romney money doesn’t drive him out of the race. At least we have a chance at a contested convention to put a real conservative in play. With you on your reasoning. Long shot is all we’ve got.
Hoping for a brokered convention. Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide in the meantime.
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