Posted on 02/04/2008 7:54:13 AM PST by TornadoAlley3
CHATTANOOGA, TENN. -- Mike Huckabee accused Mitt Romney of dirty politicking at a morning rally today, suggesting that Romney is telling voters that a vote for Huckabee is a vote against Romney.
On Fox News Channel's "Hannity & Colmes" last Thursday, Romney said: "I think most people recognize that a vote for Mike Huckabee is a vote for John McCain, and if they want John McCain as their nominee, why, that's exactly what that vote would do."
Today, Huckabee responded: "I know Mr. Romney has been trying to do a little voter suppression by telling people a vote for me is really a vote for John McCain."
"Let me tell you something, a vote for me is exactly what it is - a vote for me. A vote for somebody who hasn't just decided this year where he stands on the second amendment. ... It's a vote for somebody who knows where he stands on the sanctity of life. It's somebody who knows where he stands on the federal marriage amendment. ... It's somebody who knows where he stands on the Reagan legacy and the Bush tax cuts and hasn't changed his opinion."
Speaking to reporters after the event, Huckabee defended his use of the word "voter suppression."
"If you try to discourage people from voting for somebody, what else would you call it?" he asked, not apologizing for making such an accusation.
"Isn't voter suppression where you try to keep people from voting a certain way? By anybody's definition, if the goal of saying certain things or doing certain things is to discourage a person's voters, can anyone tell me otherwise? Isn't that voter suppression -- suppressing the vote, pushing it down, keeping people from feeling comfortable going and making the vote. I think that's exactly what we're seeing."
He’s called just about every vile name possible on FR, the Romney base is using the old “it’s a vote for Hillary” tactic and he’s not supposed to say anything? Most of what he has said has been in response to being attacked. I doubt many here would show as much class, if they were in his shoes.
I never lived on planet group think — everyone is buying this ridiculous “Romney is conservative” thing. Just look at the link I gave on Romney and get back to me.
Huckleberry is such a joke, except he’s not funny.
As for the rest of the country, we will remember what you did not do....You did not back off when you should have and could have to unite the conservative vote and together with Romney won more states than McCain. You did not speak up for the truth when McCain lied about Romney and timetables. McCain shill.
Thank you... changed.
> He [Huck] needs to shut up and get himself a late-night talk show, where he might actually be entertaining. <
Gotta disagree with you on that one. I think the Huck really would prefer to take over the Imus program, when old “Don the Cadaver” finally reaches his grave — an event that surely can’t be too far in the future judged by the way the latter looks when I see him on RFD-TV.
Wormtongue comes to mind.
>>The sooner we say goodbye to Romney, the better off we’ll be.
Which candidate was almost Kerry’s running mate?
A) Mitt Romney
B) John McCain
Which candidate said, “Hillary Clinton would make a
good president?”
Answer: same as above question. It has been played on
the Laura Ingraham show.
McCain as nominee= Bubba as First Laddie. And McCain
has such an even temper, and was absolutely right on
immigration... (...not...)
They may both be RINOs (John and Mitt) but would you
vote for the man who nearly became Kerry’s veep choice?
That is garbage.
Romney is a lib. Homosexual activist judges appointed, supporting gay scoutmasters, universal health care plan in Mass. that is already 400 million over projected costs, tax hikes, tried to fudge and have it both ways on Iraq, the surge . . .
I’m not going to let you pretend you are supporting a conservative in Romney.
I don’t think we are in the position at this time to have our country led by someone who is such an intellectual light-weight.
“The sooner we say goodbye to Romney, the better off we’ll be.” ~ DannyTN
You trying to help Mike “God is Green” Huckabee advance his higher taxes on gasoline and home energy use agenda, are ya?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/1964460/posts?page=5#5
Feelin’ Hucky are ya?
Mark Steyn: “...As for Huckabee, the thinking on the right is that the mainstream media are boosting him up because he’s the Republican who’ll be easiest to beat. It’s undoubtedly true that they see him as the designated pushover, but in that they’re wrong. If Iowa’s choice becomes the nation’s and it’s Huckabee vs Obama this November, I’d bet on Huck. As governor, as preacher and even as discjockey, he’s spent his entire life in professions that depend on connecting with an audience and he’s very good at it. His gag on “The Tonight Show” “People are looking for a presidential candidate who reminds them more of the guy they work with rather than the guy that laid them off” had a kind of brilliance: True, it is, at one level, cornball (imagine John Edwards doing it with all his smarmy sanctimoniousness) but it also devastatingly cuts to the nub of the difference between him and Romney. It’s a disc-jockey line: the morning man on the radio is a guy doing a tricky job he’s a celebrity trying to pass himself off as a regular joe which is pretty much what the presidential candidate has to do, too. Huckabee’s good at that.
I don’t know whether the Jay Leno shtick was written for him by a professional, but, if so, by the time it came out of his mouth it sounded like him. When Huck’s campaign honcho, Ed Rollins, revealed the other day that he wanted to punch Romney in the teeth, Mitt had a good comeback: “I have just one thing to say to Mr. Rollins,” he began. “Please, don’t touch the hair.” Funny line but it sounds like a line, like something written by a professional and then put in his mouth.
This is the Huckabee advantage. On stage, he’s quick-witted and thinks on his feet. He’s not paralyzed by consultants and trimmers and triangulators. Put him in a Presidential debate and he’ll have sharper ripostes and funnier throwaways and more plausible self-deprecating quips than anyone on the other side. He’ll be a great campaigner. The problems begin when he stops campaigning and starts governing.
In The Wall Street Journal, Peggy Noonan observed of Huck that, “his great power, the thing really pushing his supporters, is that they believe that what ails America and threatens its continued existence is not economic collapse or jihad, it is our culture.”
She’s right. It’s not the economy, stupid. The economy’s fine. It’s gangbusters. Indeed, despite John Edwards’ dinner-theatre Dickens routine about coatless girls shivering through the night because daddy’s been laid off at the mill, the sub-text of both Democrat and Republican messages is essentially that this country is so rich it can afford to be stupid it can afford to pork up the federal budget; it can afford to put middle-class families on government health care; it can afford to surrender its borders.
There is a potentially huge segment of the population that thinks homo economicus is missing the point. They’re tired of the artificial and, indeed, creepily coercive secular multiculti pseudo-religion imposed on American grade schools. I’m sympathetic to this pitch myself. Unlike Miss Noonan, I think it’s actually connected to the jihad, in the sense that radical Islamism is an opportunist enemy which has arisen in the wake of the western world’s one-way multiculturalism. In the long run, the relativist mush peddled in our grade schools is a national security threat. But, even in the short term, it’s a form of child abuse that cuts off America’s next generation from the glories of their inheritance.
Where I part company with Huck’s supporters is in believing he’s any kind of solution. He’s friendlier to the teachers’ unions than any other so-called “cultural conservative” which is why in New Hampshire he’s the first Republican to be endorsed by the NEA. His healthcare pitch is Attack Of The Fifty Foot Nanny, beginning with his nationwide smoking ban. This is, as Jonah Goldberg put it, compassionate conservatism on steroids big paternalistic government that can only enervate even further “our culture.” So Iowa chose to reward, on the Democrat side, a proponent of the conventional secular left, and, on the Republican side, a proponent of a new Christian left. If that’s the choice, this is going to be a long election year.
http://www.nysun.com/article/69011
Kerry’s Favorite Republican.
http://politicalwire.com/archives/2004/04/06/kerry_aides_see_mccain_as_perfect_running_mate.html
I think Huckabee has earned as many votes as Romney spending 1 / 50th the money. He’s a very bright, very funny politician. Best I’ve seen in while. Silly for people to try to dismiss him.
You got that right! bttt
Spread the word.
Now is the time to start.
IMO all his hints at conspiracy against him have proven that he can’t stand on his ideas alone and has resorted to stilliness:
“voter suppression”
“Clear Channel conspiring against me’
These comments make little political sense and marginalize him as a serious candidate.
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