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Huckabee and The Club for Growth kiss and make up
Pittsburgh Tribune Review ^
| salena zito
Posted on 04/17/2008 7:22:24 PM PDT by Salena Zito
Huckabee & The Club friends at last? TRIBUNE-REVIEW By: Salena Zito
When former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee was running for the Republcian nomination for president, no one attacked him more often and with more conservative muscle than the uber-economic conservatives from The Club for Growth.
Pat Tommey, chairman of The Club, wrote last October in The National Review that a flirtation with Huckabee even as a vice presidential candidate did a "great disservice to the conservative movement if it overlooks Huckabees stunning record of big-government liberalism.
So, it came as a bit of surprise to receive a blast e-mail from The Club today touting an exclusive interview with Huckabee talking VP speculation from Joe Lieberman to his former nemesis Mitt Romney.
A quick e-mail was sent to Huckabee asking about this.
Huckabee said that The Club has spend a lot of time and money attacking, but had never met him.
I felt it was important to sit down and have a face-to-fa
(Excerpt) Read more at pittsburghlive.com ...
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To: Salena Zito
Well, isn’t this special?
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posted on
04/17/2008 7:23:40 PM PDT
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GOP_Lady
To: Salena Zito
Huckabee’s political career is still over.
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posted on
04/17/2008 7:25:09 PM PDT
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GOP_Lady
To: GOP_Lady
To: Salena Zito
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posted on
04/17/2008 7:25:59 PM PDT
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GOP_Lady
To: TheLion
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posted on
04/17/2008 7:26:39 PM PDT
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GOP_Lady
To: GOP_Lady
And he’s still nothing but a pro-life leftist with a bible.
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posted on
04/17/2008 7:28:55 PM PDT
by
lesser_satan
(Vote McCain - The Choice who Sucks Less!)
To: Salena Zito
A very well written article, I must say.
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04/17/2008 7:32:44 PM PDT
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GOP_Lady
To: GOP_Lady
To: Salena Zito
LOL. There was an article on the site of a Cleveland news station about a proposed bill introduced in the Ohio House of Reps. The author couldn’t even go the State’s website and find out the bill number and the names of the sponsors and place it in the article. LOL.
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posted on
04/17/2008 7:38:06 PM PDT
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GOP_Lady
To: Eric Blair 2084
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posted on
04/17/2008 7:39:24 PM PDT
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GOP_Lady
To: Eric Blair 2084
Ooopppsss. Or should it be “Ping-abee?”
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posted on
04/17/2008 7:40:08 PM PDT
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GOP_Lady
To: Salena Zito
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posted on
04/17/2008 7:42:29 PM PDT
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GOP_Lady
To: Salena Zito
Pat Tommey? Does he have a cousin, Pat Toomey?
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posted on
04/17/2008 8:06:08 PM PDT
by
Dahoser
(America's great untapped alternative energy source: The Founding Fathers spinning in their graves.)
To: AuntB; pissant; OB1kNOb; Politicalmom; SoConPubbie; Esther Ruth; pandoraou812; gidget7; 383rr; ...
Hey, look, the horse will not die. Let's kick him in the ribs for good measure. Mike, America is great because of rugged individualism and conservatism. Not smoking bans. Get a real job.
Retire the liberal tax raising, open border, algore loving, Jimmy Carter foreign policy pushing, nanny state Huckster Ping

To be added please FReepmail me or OB1KNOB.
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posted on
04/17/2008 8:18:00 PM PDT
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Eric Blair 2084
(Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms shouldn't be a federal agency...it should be a convenience store.)
To: Salena Zito
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posted on
04/17/2008 8:22:41 PM PDT
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Eric Blair 2084
(Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms shouldn't be a federal agency...it should be a convenience store.)
To: Eric Blair 2084
Or should it be “Huck-a-ping?” Who knows and who cares.
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04/17/2008 8:31:32 PM PDT
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GOP_Lady
To: GOP_Lady
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posted on
04/17/2008 9:47:23 PM PDT
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Gator113
(Hey Democrats, "I drink your milkshake.")
To: Salena Zito
Too bad, I really enjoyed the club going after him, they are an outstanding political organization.
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posted on
04/17/2008 10:33:25 PM PDT
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traviskicks
(http://www.neoperspectives.com/Ron_Paul_2008.htm)
To: GOP_Lady
I don’t know, look at the Clintons and the Kennedys-political scum seems to hang on forever-although I can hope, I suppose. God, I hate this Elmer Gantry scumbag.
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04/18/2008 2:35:57 AM PDT
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The Ghost of Rudy McRomney
("Rush has unsealed the mummy's tomb-he has unleashed the undead."-Hugh Hewitt)
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