Posted on 02/11/2008 1:32:10 PM PST by gpapa
I believe that the voters in this Republican nomination contest—here in Virginia and across the country—deserve a real choice. And Governor Huckabee is clearly the conservative alternative. He is the best choice, and he is my choice. So I am voting for him on Tuesday, here in Virginia.
I don’t buy the idea that John McCain is a true conservative. Nor do I buy the idea that Mike Huckabee should get out of this contest. The people in the Potomac area—Virginia, Maryland, and the District of Columbia. In addition, we have many important states coming up, including my home state of Wisconsin. Folks in all those states deserve a choice a real choice.
I had been a supporter of Mitt Romney, but now I am very glad that Governor Huckabee has decided to stay in the race. I appreciate that he is staying in, just as I appreciate that Governor Huckabee and Senator McCain are not going at each other’s throats—a vigorous debate about important issues is the healthiest thing possible for the Republican Party.
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Good! I’m glad at least somebody doesn’t believe the hype.
I was disappointed to see that Jeb Bush just endorsed McCain, although I wasn’t that surprised, considering that he had also endorsed Crist against more conservative Florida gubernatorial candidates (although to be fair, I will say that those candidates probably had less chance of winning the general election because they were not as well known state-wide). It sure is interesting to see who people are endorsing!
“However, neither McCain nor Huckabee is a fiscal conservative. “
McCain has been good on earmarks spending and voted against the prescription drug plan bill. McCain is better than Huckster on that.
What would be more accurate to say is this: Huckster is a proven tax-and-spender based on his tax hikes as governor. McCain has shown he doesnt get supply-side economics much, based on his arguments against the Bush tax cuts of 2003.
He may be on your ballot already. He was on California’s even though he had dropped out.
Some shipments of McKoolAid have been intercepted, and have not reached their intended destinations.
“The same McCain who has a 96% rating from NARAL???? He’s certainly a lot less pro-life than any other Republican left in the race.”
WRONG. He has 0% from NARAL and near 100% from *prolife* groups.
McCain is RINO on multiple issues, but he has been a prolife voter.
What a mess.
You are wrong about his NARAL rating. It is 0. They hate his guts.
“yeah so they’ll vote for huckabee
not sure what they were trying to do”
It’s pretty obvious:
McCain is electable,
Huckabee is not.
Vote for the Huckster to stop Mccain, so
Obama can win and put extreme pro-aborts on SCOTUS, thus
keeping the abortion mills open.
However, he did vote to fund embryonic stem cell research - a move which was both culturally and fiscally liberal.
“What a mess.”
It’s been a ClusterHuck ever since Huckabee beat Romney in Iowa!
Romney would have made a great nominee ... oh well. I am at this point, more comfortable with John McCain than Huck.
Given a choice between 2 RINOs, I prefer the one who can win.
never heard of him, some icon
never heard of him, some icon
ok
McCain wants to cut the budget, reform entitlements, end corporate welfare and protectionism and overhaul the tax code.
He fought 2002’s $180 billion farm bailout, 2003’s $558 billion Medicare drug entitlement, and 2005’s $286.4 billion highway bill, which contained 6,371 earmarks worth $24 billion.
That’s a fiscal conservative.
Bush on the other hand, busted the budget and the deficit. Social security and medicare will go broke and he has done nothing about it
McCain voted no on the prescrition drug plan in 2000. But he vote yes on funding the GOP version of Medicare prescription drug benefit in 2001.
Yup. McCain beats Huckster on my list, although I won’t vote for either, and I wrote in FRed in my primary. It felt great to vote FOR someone for once. :)
Correction: I didn’t have to write FRed in, he was on my ballot.
Weyrich and Ed Feulner founded the Heritage Foundation.
Huckabee is a cutural conservative who doen’t mind pardoning vicious criminals to prey on society. He pardoned more criminals than Bill Clinton did as Gov. of AR. Some very nasty characters too. We have no true conservative in this race.
Fred supports McCain ..... just as he did in 2000. Fred was all talk, no go. He helped ram McCain Feingold through the Senate.
yeah but the idea is to vote for someone who is actually running
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