Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Conservative Icon Paul Weyrich Endorses Huckabee
Huckabee Campain via the Corner at National Review ^ | February 11, 2008 | Kathryn Jean Lopez

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at corner.nationalreview.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia; US: Maryland; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: 2008endorsements; election; huckabee; mccain; mikehuckabee; potomacprimary; taxhikemike; va2008; weyrich
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-6061-73 next last

1 posted on 02/11/2008 1:32:15 PM PST by gpapa
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: gpapa
Icon?!!

"Hasbeen" is a more apt description.

2 posted on 02/11/2008 1:36:03 PM PST by Rudder
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: gpapa

Great News!

Go Huckabee - It’s on to Texas.

http://godandculture.wordpress.com/2008/02/11/huck-plays-air-hockey-with-colbert/


3 posted on 02/11/2008 1:38:36 PM PST by Reagan79 (Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: gpapa

Great News!

Go Huckabee - It’s on to Texas.

http://godandculture.wordpress.com/2008/02/11/huck-plays-air-hockey-with-colbert/


4 posted on 02/11/2008 1:39:30 PM PST by Reagan79 (Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Rudder
You are right on. Won’t be long and the msm will be all over any R candidate and destroy them anyway. I just admire how the msm can pull such great adjectives to describe those they despise.
5 posted on 02/11/2008 1:39:38 PM PST by captnorb
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: gpapa; BillyBoy; unspun

That’s great news. I’m glad that Paul and supports the same candidate as Jim Gilcrist and Dr. Dobson.


6 posted on 02/11/2008 1:39:47 PM PST by PhilCollins
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Rudder
"Hasbeen" is a more apt description.

Actually, that moniker is already reserved for McAmnesty.

He's already dead and doesn't even know it.

He will lose badly in November.

This is what happens when the GOP ignores it's base to run a moderate.


7 posted on 02/11/2008 1:42:52 PM PST by SoConPubbie
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Rudder

Why? Because he wouldn’t support a mentally unstable grandstanding liberal?


8 posted on 02/11/2008 1:44:59 PM PST by em2vn
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: gpapa
"And Governor Huckabee is clearly the conservative alternative."


No thanks, Huckabee is even further down my preference list than McCain. I may just write in Fred's name in the primary.
9 posted on 02/11/2008 1:45:38 PM PST by rob777 (Personal Responsibility is the Price of Freedom)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: gpapa
Hmmm.

There has been a lot of talk about how the Reagan Revolution was the uniting of cultural conservatives with fiscal conservatives - the coalition of evangelical values voters and country club tax cut advocates.

Lately there has been talk that either the GOP is turning its back on values voters or that they are turning their backs on the GOP.

However, neither McCain nor Huckabee is a fiscal conservative. Huckabee is, however, a cultural conservative.

Of the four remaining presidential contenders in either party, not one is a fiscal conservative.

Overall, voter turnout has been going up and up, while third party votes have been going down and down.

So more Americans than ever are voting and more Americans than ever, as a percentage, are voting for one of the two major parties.

Where did these ignored conservatives go?

10 posted on 02/11/2008 1:48:41 PM PST by wideawake (Why is it that those who call themselves Constitutionalists know the least about the Constitution?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: gpapa

What? Not McCain, that paragon of conservatism?

Hasn’t Weyrich been listening: The Party Leadership and Wall Street Journal are sure McCain is the Man Of The Hour!


11 posted on 02/11/2008 1:49:28 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (I'd rather oppose a Liberal Democrat than a Liberal Republican!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SoConPubbie

moderates do have a much better chance at winning than liberals or conservatives


12 posted on 02/11/2008 1:49:52 PM PST by ari-freedom (Pragmatism: the 4th leg of conservatism.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: gpapa

Let me tell you how funny this is. Planned Parenthood is running radio ads in Virginia urging Republican primary voters to vote against McCain, because McCain is pro-life. My head is spinning.


13 posted on 02/11/2008 1:51:20 PM PST by 3AngelaD (They screwed up their own countries so bad they had to leave, and now they're here screwing up ours)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: wideawake

mccain is a fiscal conservative unless you think a fiscal conservative means someone who likes to blow up with the deficit


14 posted on 02/11/2008 1:52:16 PM PST by ari-freedom (Pragmatism: the 4th leg of conservatism.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: 3AngelaD

yeah so they’ll vote for huckabee
not sure what they were trying to do


15 posted on 02/11/2008 1:53:57 PM PST by ari-freedom (Pragmatism: the 4th leg of conservatism.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies]

To: rob777

“No thanks, Huckabee is even further down my preference list than McCain. I may just write in Fred’s name in the primary.”

Dittos on that thought.

If you can’t vote McCain, dont vote McCain, but Huckster is even worse...

At some point, we should put a wrap on it and come together for the party ...

Do we want 4 years of Obama/Clinton/Carter type foreign policy at a time of war? Do we want Obama/Clinton/Carter type domestic policy at a time when the economy is shaky? Do we want their cultural leftism at a time when our culture is under attack?


16 posted on 02/11/2008 1:54:12 PM PST by WOSG (Want to blame someone for McCain being the nominee? Blame the Mormon-bashers)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: 3AngelaD

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. Unless, of course, they are already assuming he’s the candidate and are sort of jumping the gun on their general election ads...


17 posted on 02/11/2008 1:54:51 PM PST by livius
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies]

To: ari-freedom
mccain is a fiscal conservative unless you think a fiscal conservative means someone who likes to blow up with the deficit

Please post a new response that makes sense.

18 posted on 02/11/2008 1:54:58 PM PST by wideawake (Why is it that those who call themselves Constitutionalists know the least about the Constitution?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]

To: wideawake
I'm not a McCain supporter.

But one of the only things McCain has going for him is that he is a fiscal conservative. He's not a supply sider, and he was against the Bush tax cuts, but he has always tried to hold spending down.

A Hoover Republican?

:-)

19 posted on 02/11/2008 1:55:18 PM PST by Lakeshark (Thank a member of the US armed forces for their sacrifice)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: rob777

He may be on your ballot already. He was in California’s even though he had dropped out.


20 posted on 02/11/2008 1:57:20 PM PST by DoughtyOne (That's right McStain, you'll get my vote when you peel it from my cold dead fingers.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-6061-73 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson