Loved him in the "A-Team"
Posted on 07/15/2009 12:06:47 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
(CNN) — Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee has a warning for Sarah Palin: Don't abandon the Republican Party.
The former presidential candidate and potential future White House rival of Palin's said Tuesday he's concerned about speculation the Alaska governor may leave the GOP to become an independent.
I hope she remains — let me be real clear — a part of the Republican Party," Huckabee told FOX News. "I'm a little concerned when I hear her say that she may sort of branch out and go third party or go independent. That would be a big mistake because we need to rebuild the Republican Party, not abandon it.""
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She’d get my vote. The only issue is we’d need a highly popular rat to split from their party and run for President against Obama as well. Splitting both parties is about the only way we can get a viable 3rd choice.
However, the offer, by Palin, to support conservative Democrats comes at a good time:
We need to remind Conservative Democrat officeholders that they got their jobs with the support of some conservative Republicans.
It might serve to tone down the pressure, from Pelosi and Reed, on the “Blue Dogs” -— and it might give some “Blue Dogs” some courage, knowing that Republicans will more than make up the support they might lose from Dem. leaders.
Huckabee is right. Better to rebuild the GOP than tear it down. We must have a rejuvenated and strengthened GOP for next year’s midterm election. There is no other party on the horizon that can do the job that must be done. Let’s get back to reality, please.
I’ve decided that our country is run by two organized crime families.
The Republicans and the Democrats.
We are caught in the middle of their turf war.
Working to get real conservatives elected is not a waste. The GOP abandoned conservatives at least twenty years ago. No go and play nice or else. That brought us a congress that spent like drunken dems and a ‘compassionate’ president who is only slightly better than a dem
Can you name a conservative Democrat office holder?
Huckabee should just give up on politics and stick to television. He is much better at that anyway. (Especially if they bring back shows set in Mayberry, he’d be great...)
Please. Huck would love it if Palin left: third party candidates are guaranteed to lose, and it would give Huck an easier path to the 2012 candidacy. Well, at least he could claim to be the conservative candidate. (He’s not conservative, he would just claim to be.)
I tend to agree with an earlier thread that argued that if Sarah goes third party it would almost guarantee zero a second term. It would also set up the same kind of arguments that I used to have with the Perot people in ‘92, namely that if Perot did win he would never get anything done without congress’ consent, and the two party swamp that is DC will not change and consent to anything a third party came up with.
But, I can also share Sarahs’ frustration with the current rino infested GOP.
It is a dilemma that may not have a solution.
I have a warning for Huckabee.
Don’t ever run for POTUS again. You cost Romney votes and allowed McLame to be our nominee, thereby throwing the elction to 0bama.
Cool when cool was in ...
The CNN title is very misleading. He wasn’t warning her in any way! He was entreating her to stay with the Party! Typical biased reporting. No matter how you feel about the Republican Party, or a Third Party, don’t be confused by this reporter’s slanting of the title!
In fact, I asked another poster the exact same question, awhile back.
However, there are a number of Democrats, in the House, who are prolife and pro 2nd Amendment, and who are not crazy about the leftist bent of Obama. To call them “Conservative” is a bit of a stretch, perhaps, but they are not Marxists, and Obama is a Marxist.
I think Palin’s offer to help conservative Democrats does some good, even if NOBODY ever takes her up on the offer.
Huck’s major accomplishment in 2008 was to marginalize a real candidate like Fred Thompson and be the Judas Goat to hand the nomination to Juan McCain. Loved your analogy to the carnival barker, but I’ve met carnival people with more integrity.
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