Posted on 05/08/2009 3:27:15 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
(CNN) — Days after national Republicans launched a new campaign to broaden the party's outreach, former upstart presidential candidate Mike Huckabee says the GOP is at risk of becoming "irrelevant as the Whigs."
In an interview with the California newspaper The Visalia Times-Delta, Huckabee said the GOP would only further decline in influence should it alienate social conservatives — largely considered the most energetic and loyal faction of the party.
"Throw the social conservatives the pro-life, pro-family people overboard and the Republican party will be as irrelevant as the Whigs," he said in reference to the American political party that largely disbanded in the mid 1800s.
"They'll basically be a party of gray-haired old men sitting around the country club puffing cigars, sipping brandy and wondering whatever happened to the country. That will be the end of the party," he said in the interview published Thursday.
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Huckabee is right and Romney is wrong.
Go Sarah Go!!!
The Huckster didn’t impress me when he was guv. maybe he’s changed or changed tactics.
The Huckster is right on this one.
Let's keep the social conservative, pro-life, pro-family voters and throw the amnesty-loving, global warming believing, nanny-state politicians like Huckabee overboard.
I’m starting to change my opinion of the Huckster.
Just let the RINOs move the GOP farther to the left and the GOP will be toast.
Huck-a-who?
....oblivious to their active involvement in its destruction.
Huckabee is spot-on here.
Watch what happens in 2010 and 2012....You RINO’s are about to become irrelevent! Thanks to SARAH!! GO SARAH GO!!!!
Tet warns Huckabee, he IS irrelevent.
Huckabee, past, over, done, etc.
Don’t come back, etc.
Not a big fan of the Huckster, but he’s right.
Whether the GOP will be smart enough to listen, I’m not holding my breath.
[1rudeboy wistfully remembers when it was possible to be a fiscal and social conservative at once.]
Huckabee is a good talker, but he is too pragmatic as a leader.
“They’ll basically be a party of gray-haired old men sitting around the country club puffing cigars, sipping brandy and wondering whatever happened to the country. That will be the end of the party,” he said in the interview published Thursday.”
Hell, the Country Clubbers would be perfectly happy with this.
Actually ALL political parties are becoming irrelevant..
A conservative caucus is started to raise its head..
I fear Huckabee is planning to run and will split the conservative vote between him and Sarah.
Given Sarah’s persona and common sense, she’s much like Ronald Reagan.
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