Posted on 02/01/2008 5:40:31 PM PST by Kurt Evans
Conservative, conservative, conservative. That was the word Mike Huckabee used again and again with reporters to emphasize his credibility as a contender for the Republican nomination...
“There has been somewhat of - almost a national media spin that this race is a two-man race,” said Huckabee... “Last night, the CNN debate was very frustrating for me. There seemed to be an unequal level of time that was allocated, and if people look at the delegate count, one has to have 1,191 delegates in order to be the nominee. So far, no one has even broken a hundred; there’s only 8% of the delegates that have yet been tabulated ..."
Continuing, Huckabee questioned Romney’s quest to claim the conservative mantle: “If people are looking for a true conservative, somebody who hasn’t had a recent change of opinion to become one, I would be the logical choice ..."
Although he would have “loved” to have Arnold Schwarzenegger’s endorsement, Huckabee seemed to undermine it by challenging the California governor’s conservative credentials, and implicitly, McCain’s.
“I would never have expected the governor of California to endorse me and, frankly, I’m probably a lot more conservative on a lot more issues than he would have been comfortable with – whether it’s the Second Amendment, or pro-life issue, or marriage amendment issue or any number of things.”
Huckabee later said that receiving former Republican candidate Duncan Hunter’s endorsement last week probably meant more in the conservative hotbed of San Diego than Schwarzenegger’s endorsement of McCain.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...
The Huckster wouldn’t know a Conservative if he increased taxes on one...
“The808bass” wrote: “It’s a bit of a moot point as he’s no longer in the race.”
The point is that you lied.
“The808bass” wrote: “However, you avoided the last part of my post like the plague.”
Actually I read it carefully. You suggested my inability to predict which states will ratify a Human Life Amendment is a tacit admission that my support for Governor Huckabee is to make myself feel good, and has nothing to do with saving any babies. It seemed to me I had a choice between ignoring you and telling you to shove it.
Or, it means that you are faced with the fact that Huckabee's preference (and yours) for an HLA accomplishes exactly 0, zero, nada, nothing. And you can't point to the states which would pass the amendment. And that doesn't even address the fact that it would never make it through the House and Senate.
So, you may want to tell me to shove it. But your ideas are Quixotic at best and self-righteously stupid at worst.
The point is that I had read plenty of statements from Thompson where he unequivocally stated that life begins at conception. I was unaware of his support for 1st trimester abortions, a support he did reiterate during the campaign, but neither did he deny it (which your statement made me research and realize). At that point, I admitted that you had made a good point. You can call that a lie if you'd like.
You responded with the grace and humility that we've come to expect from Mike Huckabee himself.
should be "a support he did NOT reiterate during the campaign, but neither did he deny it"
If Huckabee was serious about being a contender, then why has he been more critical towards the second place candidate Romney as opposed to his kid gloves treatment of the frontrunner McCain? What a fake this guy is.
“The808bass” wrote: “But your ideas are Quixotic at best and self-righteously stupid at worst.”
Actually they’re not.
“The808bass” wrote: “At that point, I admitted that you had made a good point. You can call that a lie if you’d like.”
I’m not calling that a lie. You lied when you said I copied the post about Senator Thompson from another site.
“The808bass” wrote: “should be ‘a support he did NOT reiterate during the campaign, but neither did he deny it’”...
Senator Thompson reiterated his opposition to state laws banning abortion to Tim Russert on November 7, 2007:
“When I saw—and again, ALL CONSISTENT WITH WHAT I’VE SAID [emphasis mine]. I—people ask me hypothetically, you know, okay, it goes back to the states. Somebody comes up with a bill, and they say we’re going to outlaw this, that or the other. And my response was I do not think it is a wise thing to criminalize young girls and perhaps their parents as aiders and abettors or perhaps their family physician... I do not think that you can have a, a, a law that would be effective and that would be the right thing to do ...”
http://youtube.com/watch?v=H-b1xQNRA4g
“If Huckabee was serious about being a contender, then why has he been more critical towards the second place candidate Romney as opposed to his kid gloves treatment of the frontrunner McCain?”
There are probably several reasons, one of which is that Governor Romney is actually a worse candidate than Senator McCain. A wolf isn’t as bad as a wolf in sheep’s clothing. Here’s what Governor Huckabee himself said on Thursday:
“And for me, give me a guy that I disagree with but at least I know he’s speaking from his convictions, and it’s not just a convenient political view that he’s taking because, ‘Today I’m talking to a women’s group, so I’m pro woman, but tomorrow I’m talking to a men’s group, so I’m not.’ That’s what disturbs me, and I think it’s the kind of politics that just really turns people off.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBRjSe8WvfQ
http://www.observer.com/2007/mitt-romneys-convenient-truths
Second, you really protest too much. I've learned that the guilty dog (I know that's a bad choice of words in this case) usually barks the loudest.
Finally, crime or not,there aren't many who would argue that this behavior is not wierd and wrong. There is such a thing as ethical and moral behavior. I would hope any person considered for the presidency has the ability to instill a moral compass in his children. That hasn't been proven in Mr. Huckabee's case.
I hope you don't have a dog.
“Honeybunch” wrote: “First, it is not ‘my’ Snopes article.”
Maybe I should have called it “the Snopes article for which you thanked ‘khnyny’ in post #81.”
“Honeybunch” wrote: “Second, you really protest too much.”
Actually the intensity of my protest is entirely appropriate for the kind of lies I’m protesting.
“Honeybunch” wrote: “I’ve learned that the guilty dog (I know that’s a bad choice of words in this case) usually barks the loudest.”
How do you claim to have learned that?
“Honeybunch” wrote: “I would hope any person considered for the presidency has the ability to instill a moral compass in his children. That hasn’t been proven in Mr. Huckabee’s case.”
How could you possibly know that?
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