Posted on 02/02/2008 7:24:12 PM PST by FreeAtlanta
Dear Mr. Huckabee,
For the sake of the Republican Party and your future political viability, please consider stepping down before this “Super” Tuesday.
I know this is asking a lot, but most conservatives despise John McCain as a politician. If you cause him to be selected in the primary, this will hang around your neck like an albatross. You will not be able to remove it. If you think you will have favoritism from McCain, first, you can't trust him and second, he will not be elected. The base, a good percentage of what would be your future voters, will not vote for him. He will loose to the Democrat candidate, and your political future will be over.
If you have people reading this forum (I strongly suspect you do), then please consider backing out of this race. If done correctly, you could elevate your political future and gain the appreciation from a very dedicated national base.
You do not want "moderate" or "independent" love, because they are so fickle. You do want our respect. Please step aside for now.
Thank you,
Free Atlanta
LOL. (It's either laugh or cry!)
That's what I think. Same rhetoric as LaRaza:
When Republican state senators in Arkansas proposed legislation modeled after Arizona’s Proposition 200 [to require proof of citizenship for voting and public benefits], “Huckabee described it as ‘inflammatory ... race-baiting ... demagoguery.’ He said the bill, which seeks to forbid public assistance and voting rights to illegal immigrants, ‘inflames those who are racist and bigots and makes them think there’s a real problem. But there’s not.’” (Governor says anti-illegals measure could scare off companies like Toyota,” Associated Press, 2/3/05)
Mega ditto.
I was VERY disappointed to hear that he had criticized Bush’s foreign policy and conduct of the war, but I took the time to actually read the article for myself. His criticism was that Bush was not doing enough to make the American people (and the world) really understand the enemy we face, people so savagely fanatical they are willing to blow up themselves, and their own children, and slaughter innocents, in the name of their religion. He is dedicated to trying to build up the intelligence and military even faster that Bush’s current plan call for - the kind of commander in chief I’m looking for.
McCain actively campaigned for a state constitutional amendment against gay marriage in Arizona and California. he is against gays in the military. He supports abstinence based education.
What a traitor to conservatives! Throw him to the dogs!
He was against a marriage amendment to the federal constitution because it conflicted with his federalist principles.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/07/14/mccain.marriage/
yes, a candidate who actually believes in first principles. I don’t think Romney even knows what that means.
Yeah, but look at all the money Romney is spending for his votes, that’s the real indictment.
I have a friend in Michigan who detests Juan McCain. But, he is an avid Huck supporter.
He just doesn’t understand that a vote for Huckabee is a vote for McCain.
these little cherry picking quotes against Huckabee or McCain remind me of the cheap tricks of Hillary against Obama.
When I show a problem with romney, I try to find a video of the entire Romney speech so that we see and hear everything in context. You also have to note the body language and inflection to get the full context.
and a vote for Romney is a vote for Hillary.
and a vote for Ron Paul is a vote for Obama.
I was VERY disappointed to hear that Huckabee had criticized Bush’s foreign policy and conduct of the war, but I took the time to actually read the article for myself. His criticism was that Bush was not doing enough to make the American people (and the world) really understand the enemy we face, people so savagely fanatical they are willing to blow up themselves, and their own children, and slaughter innocents, in the name of their religion. He is dedicated to trying to build up the intelligence and military even faster that Bush’s current plan call for - the kind of commander in chief I’m looking for.
If DUNCAN HUNTER believes he can be trusted on border/immigration and WOT issues, I would trust Duncan Hunter’s informed, educated judgment after he spent a year getting to know the candidates, more than I would trust the opinion of any of the haters on here.
Mike Huckabee does not care about Conservatives nor the Republican party. He is only concerned with Mike Huckabee and LOVEs the attention he is getting by the adoring liberal media.
I agree
the haters are Romney supporters who would do nothing or even vote for hillary so I don’t think they have any credibility anymore as conservatives.
I call them the ‘new’ conservatives just as Hitchens and Dawkins are ‘new’ atheists. Completely unhinged and intolerant of opposing views and ideas.
Romney promises absolute conservative perfection which is what they demand, but there is nothing behind the curtain.
The real indictment is class envy. Not really a conservative virtue.
Romney is a big class warrior.
See
http://hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com/FLAT.jpg
I remember that ad in 1996. I was a Steve Forbes fan and the blatant use of class envy rhetoric as well as the mischaracterization of the plan really bothered me. (there was a big standard deduction that he ‘forgot’ to mention)
And Mitt had nothing to gain as he wasn’t even running for anything at the time. It was just to get at forbes and we ended up with Dole in the end.
I think it is you who is misinformed if you don't know his views on homosexuality. He still believes in gays in the military and he has said that he wanted Barney Frank's ENDA law passed.
He wrote a letter to the Log Cabin Republicans. (An organization of homosexual republicans dedicated to the homosexual agenda.) This is part of what he said.
One issue I want to clarify concerns President Clinton's "dont't ask, don't tell, don't pursue" military policy. I believe that the Clinton compromise was a step in the right direction. I am also convinced that it is the first of a number of steps that will ultimately lead to gays and lesbians being able to serve openly and honestly in our nation's military. That goal will only be reached when preventing discrimination against gays and lesbians is a mainstream concern, which is a goal we share.In the Nov 28 republican debate, he was booed for answering that it was not time "yet" for gays in the military. Most conservative Christians would say there will never be a time.
As far as him being against gay marriage, he is for civil unions and in 2006 his Massachusetts administration gave two men (a gay couple) the adoptive parents of the year award. His fervor for preventing gay marriage is very much in question for a number of reasons. Mitt opposed as unnecessary a constitutional amendment which pro family activists wanted in place to stop gay marriage well before the Massachusetts supreme court had a chance to rule.
Here is a thread about the subject posted here over a year ago.
Could Mitt Romney Have Stopped Gay Marriage?
If you do not know about his pro homosexual stand, you do not know Mitt Romney. I did not know there were very many out there like you. But if there are, McCain could use Mitt's words in Robo calls and ads to totally destroy his support in areas where conservative Christians predominate. I guess Mitt has an Achilles heel. In any case, even if McCain does not exploit it, I can guarantee that Hillary and the democrats will.
Whatever you do, leave Reagan out of this. To compare disengenuous Mitt and his lying minions to Ronald Reagan is an insult. I am tired of constantly asking these pro Romney defamation artists to prove their charge that Reagan was pro-choice like Romney was. They can't because unlike Mitt, Reagan never was pro-choice. Reagan was always pro-life he just went from being pro-life with the exception of the health of the mother to the stronger pro-life position of being pro-life with the exception of the life of the mother.
It is obvious you don't know enough about him to be able to say anything definitive about his pro family beliefs and surely his being a "family man" is obviously not synonymous with being pro-family. Obama is a family man but like Romney he is certainly not pro-family.
People don’t see it as an issue of class envy. What they see is a politician with no core principles who is not sure of himself. He’s a weak candidate, losing to McQuueq proves that much.
I wish it wasn’t like that either, but the writing is on the wall for Romney.
A VOTE FOR HUCKABEE IS A VOTE FOR HUCKABEE!!
Huckabee - reliably pro-life, not recently pro-life.
Huckabee - reliably pro 2nd amendment, not recently 2nd amendment.
He understands that it is for self defense, not just hunting and sports.
He is an ardent, articulate supporter of the Fair Tax, and I believe he really “gets it”. It is the best hope on the horizon for giving power back to the people, and waking people up to the stranglehold the current tax system has on the people and the economy.
If DUNCAN HUNTER believes he can be trusted on border/immigration and WOT issues, I would trust Duncan Hunter’s informed, educated judgment after he spent a year getting to know the candidates, more than I would trust the opinion of any of the haters on here.
Don’t let the people who say he can’t be elected give us another self fulfilling prophecy of having to settle for someone we have to HOPE will do what he says. Right now it’s just name recognition, and when most people get to know Mike Huckabee, they like him.
They were both governors, but those people give Romney a pass for not being able to do what he “really” wanted, because he had a Democrat legislature to work with, when Huckabee was able to work successfully with his Democrat legislature.
Every vote for Mike Huckabee on Tuesday will be one more vote to show the establishment and the media that the election can’t be bought and we don’t have to settle for their opinion of “that’s the best we can get”.
compare:
In an April 16 letter to the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, McCain said, “I believe polarization of personnel and breakdown of unit effectiveness is too high a price to pay for well-intentioned but misguided efforts to elevate the interests of a minority of homosexual service members above those of their units.
“Most importantly, the national security of the United States, not to mention the lives of our men and women in uniform, are put at grave risk by policies detrimental to the good order and discipline which so distinguish America’s armed services.”
abortion actually went down under Huckabee
http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/sfaa/arkansas.html
In 2005, 4,710 women obtained abortions in Arkansas, producing a rate of 8.3 abortions per 1,000 women of reproductive age. Some of these women were from other states, and some Arkansas residents had abortions in other states, so this rate may not reflect the abortion rate of state residents. The rate declined 15% since 2000, when it was 9.8 abortions per 1,000 women 15-44. Abortions in Arkansas represent 0.4 of all abortions in the United States.
In 2005, there were 3 abortion providers in Arkansas. This represents a 57% decrease from 2000, when there were 7 abortion providers.
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