Huckabee warns GOP could become 'irrelevant'

CNN - Political Ticker ^ | 2009-05-08

[luvbach1]

A party comprised of RINOS would have far fewer members than the present Republican Party. Huck gets it.

[Luke21]

Since when does stuff from the left wing Visalia Times Delta make it to CNN? I’ll bet if he’d asked about BO’s birth certificate, there’d have been no coverage at all.

[taillightchaser]

Especially now that zero has given them 2.3 billion of our dollars. They will control elections from now on.

[marron]

Forget your principles and you deserve to be irrelevant.

We already have a party for the people with flexible, fuzzy, or non-existent principles. And we already have a party for the people who want an activist central government. Its called the Democratic Party.

[Emmett McCarthy]

With all due respect, what is not “political” about the right to life? Is it not mentioned first by our Founders followed by “liberty and the pursuit of happiness”? These are rights with which we are endowed by our Creator, God, and only codified and guaranteed by our Constitution. Without the first, none of the rest matter, so they?

[spectre]

"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.

And since Hucks religion forbids him from drinking brandy and smoking cigars, he is just the one to save us...NOT!

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[BallyBill]

I'm getting a wee bit tired of people telling us that only THEY can save the GOP. Who cares about a party name anyway? I'd join “The Silly Walks” if they represented my issues well.

[PerConPat]

Since when does stuff from the left wing Visalia Times Delta make it to CNN?

Precisely...When the Leftist maggots who control the MSM want this stuff to reach the eyes and ears of the something for nothing majority who have no idea of what has made this country great.

[Cheetahcat]

“Huckabee said it's too early for the GOP to look for a leader.”

Forget it Huckster you gave us McQueeg is all, we need Sarah Palin not anymore Half Republicans.

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

With the NONSENSE coming from the pubbie leadership and arrogance of the sillyassed listening tour I would say that HUCK sums it up nicely.Duncan Hunter needs to be gop chair so it will once again be GOP chair.

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

Let them vote for the rat bastards then.They have no soul.

[chainsaw]

With people like the huckster in the republican party, he may be right.

[Winstons Julia]

“With all due respect, what is not “political” about the right to life?”

Well, there are many views across the spectrum on this. Some feel that birth control is wrong.

See, here’s the thing. I have heard Democrats screaming since Reagan that “The Republicans will take away your right to choose!”...and yet, that hasn’t happened. It’s a Supreme Court thing. And in a sense, it’s a court of public opinion thing. If a Republican president got into office and tried to say that abortions are now prohibited...that would be a dictator move.

On the opposite end of the spectrum, I recently saw that a liberal lawyer described a baby as like a “rapist”. Which is obviously sickening. I think most people have seen the footage of the gorilla mom grieving the loss of her stillborn child, but a human being can somehow “reason” herself into a barbaric position.

How do folks stand on the morning after pill?

Recently, STEM cell research got effectively used by the press and the Democrats to demonize Bush, even though he upset a portion of his constituency by allowing it on existing lines.

As to what my father’s reasoning was for saying that abortion isn’t really a political issue, I don’t know...but I know that SOME issues get a lot of press coverage, emotional issues like stem cell research (which, from most of what I’ve researched isn’t providing a lot of results in the embryonic cells)...you had Michael J Fox out there basically saying that Republicans want to kill him.

Maybe that’s what my dad meant. That we should focus on fiscal conservatism, smaller government, liberty for all, right to bear arms, freedom of religion, no government intervention into private business and the free market...that all of these can be taken away from us by skillful use by the media of emotionally charged social issues to ensure that Republicans seem like the party that wants to take your rights and health away.

[chainsaw]

By 2012 even die-hard democrats will be fed up with obamaism, and the run away spending spreading of their money around.

[muawiyah]

There was an argument that Huckabee was just there to distract social conservatives away from Romney so that McCain could win.

It was my impression that the argument was created as an excuse for Romney ~ guy came too late to the social conservative banner to have anyone believe him.

[nascarnation]

I dearly hope you’re correct.
I see his strategy to build a coalition of “beneficiaries” leading to a permanent majority for the client classes.

[muawiyah]

The right to life is fundamental. Without it you're just an animal on somebody else's plantation.

Besides, you can never improve life by killing off the innocent.

[okie01]

There was an argument that Huckabee was just there to distract social conservatives away from Romney so that McCain could win.

All three of these guys are so deeply flawed that they can be safely abandoned.

We need new blood. None of the 2008 candidates are welcome in the 2012 race.

[Arizona Carolyn]

I agree, but my bet is their ego’s will demand Huckabee and Romney both run again.

[pointsal]

Mike Huckabee says the GOP is at risk of becoming "irrelevant as the Whigs."

Time to remove all doubt....The Elephants are toast!