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!
quack quack
ping to some of my FRiends; I have made my decision.
fwiw
So have I but I doubt we agree.
Indeed. And that’s OK. My vote is purely strategic - in hopes that pro lifers get a good seat at a brokered convention. I have zero confidence in Romney on these issues which are deal breakers for me.
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At least we all seem united against McCain. That’s the goal.
Why don’t we just put up a banner say, “JR, IS FOR OPEN BORDERS”. That’s the way Huck feels. Romney might just do something about the illegals, Huck wants us to greet them with a smile as if this is WalMart.
Cookies and hugs for everyone!
Here’s an objective analysis of how the records of the two Governors regarding spending in their respective states:
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/12/31/clarification-on-huckabee-and-romney-spending/
“The bottom line? The difference in annual spending growth, adjusted for inflation, between Mr. Huckabee and Mr. Romney is not 3.9 percent compared to 1.8 percent, as the original post said. Instead, it is 4.9 percent versus 1.1 percent, a slightly larger difference.
As the original post said, Mr. Romney can still rightly claim to have done a better job restraining spending on annual basis than Mr. Huckabee, now by a larger margin.”
and medical care and food stamps and free education and job training and legal advice and and and an. a.. .............
Am I right about that, JimRob?
I didn't think it was that hard to understand.
One well thought out answer at one debate negates about half the points on your chart: Any man that would consult lawyers before responding to an attack on the USA should not be president.
I was wavering between Fred and Mike. I think I’ll go with Mike. At least I trust him on judges. In our TN primary system, I can still vote somewhat for both as we vote popularity (20% threshold for delegates) and also vote for the delegates.
And anyone who wants to reopen trade with Castro's Cuba, the most repressive regime in the history of the Western hemisphere and who encourages the destruction of our nation by ignoring the law and encouraging illegals to over run the country draining our medical, educational and social security resources should not be president.
And anyone who cosponsors patently unconstitutional legislation to violate the 1st amendment should not be president.
And anyone who violates the law by illegally possessing hundreds of FBI files on political opponents should not be president.
And anyone who is willing to endanger the nation by precipitously pulling our troops out of Iraq should not be president.
Well, I guess that's all of them.
No one is qualified to be president!
“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,”
Incorrect. It will guarantee that McCain wins the nomination because Huck and Mitt will split the conservative. Thanks a lot Huckabee.
I think I’ll write in Jim Robinson. Maybe we can get a few thousand freeper write ins and get Jim a voice at the next Pubby convention after the ‘08 disaster.
Thanks!
Rush Limbaugh for President!
Jim, most of us are down to 3rd or 4th choices in this election cycle. The sad fact is that now there are NO strong or really good conservatives running. We are all being forced to choose from what is left over and so there is quite a bt of divergence.
I respect everyone’s right to make that choice as they see fit, as I know you do. I respect your creation of FR and the good it has done for our country. It is, the most conservative and all-American gathering place on the net. The vast majority of the people who come here and have stuck it out are good, patriotic and committed Americans.
At this point we all have to look at people’s records and their current positions and actions and choose the one we are most comfortable with out of a pack that does not have good conservative credentials. That means we have to assess the good and the bad of each candidate, compare them, and then come down on the candidate we feel will best maintain some symbolance of our values.
People all over the country are doing it...here on FR, in Maine, and in a bunch of places on Tuesday.
I have picked Romney now as my distant 3rd place candidate. I am not happy that I have been put in that position, but there it is. I believe he has the best chance to stop McCain in the GOP, and also the best chance against either Hillary or Obama in the general...either of which would even be much, much worse disasters than McCain.
I do not for an instant believe that Romney would be a disaster for America. I believe he would hold to his commitments and probably be a place holder and a maintainer of where we are now until the GOP comes up with a true conservative. He may also surprise us and be stronger than we expect.
Apparently a large number of FR members and lurkers agree. Apparently a large number of people in Maine agree. As you wisely said, those two (and all his other victories as well) may not make any difference in the end, but I am glad to see it anyway at this point before the big day on Tuesday. Either way, Romney has a huge mountain to climb between now and the convention.
There will be no brokered convention. Allowing McCain to continue his "surge" by voting for Huckabee will obviate any such convention. The vote simply has to be for Romney to stop McQueeg cold in his tracks.
Dreams, fantasies, straw-grasping and false hopes of a brokered convention are embedded in the minds of folks who look for any excuse and self-delusion to explain away their intent to vote for Huckabee......which is really a vote for McManiac.
Leni
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