Posted on 09/18/2009 8:08:19 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
WASHINGTON (CNN) – An old rivalry flared up again at the annual Values Voter Summit on Friday, when Mike Huckabee took aim at the health care system in Massachusetts that was implemented in 2006 by then-Gov. Mitt Romney.
Huckabee — who did serious damage to Romney's presidential hopes last January by winning the Iowa caucuses and has made clear his disdain for the former Massachusetts governor — told the crowd at the conservative conference that the Bay State health care system is a model for the kind of government-run health care President Obama wants to implement.
"It's going to bankrupt their entire budget," Huckabee said of the Massachusetts system, which requires residents to purchase health care or risk tax penalties. "In fact, the only thing inexpensive about Massachusetts health care bill is that there you can get a $50 abortion."
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Agreed 100%!
WaPo is smoking crack.
Put all ten of those in different cities, except put Palin in a town in the middle of nowhere. She’d still draw more than the rest of them COMBINED.
LOL, look at my post #22...
You got that right. Joe Biden was supposedly picked for his Pennsylvania roots. He couldn’t even get 500 people (most of them pressers and his amen chorus) into a mid-sized high school gym in our county for a rally announced two weeks in advance. Sarah drew over 3000 to an early morning outdoor airport rally (one of those tiny airports with two commuter flights per day) which was announced less than 24 hours in advance.
An idiot talking about an idiot.
Uh, I don’t see evidence of that.
I thought Romney was going to be a great candidate. He went nowhere. 3 years from now isn’t going to help him. My suggestion to Romney, give up on politics and get a job.
His Sec of Ed would probably have the science curriculum teaching that the earth is 6000 years old.
Very well said. No retreads!
do freeple peeple understand why Huckabee was and is a flawed candidate?
He had talent as a communicator, and said, “why not elect a candidate whose native tongue is the language of Zion?”!
That turns him into a parochial candidate. Makes about as much sense as a guy running around speaking Spanish. You get intense support in one constituency and very little in every other one! Huckabee did not even succeed in getting support from pro-life religious Catholic Republicans. No ability at all to broaden his coalition.
So the response to Huckabee is: “We know you can speak the language of Zion, but can you learn to also speak ‘the common language’?”
If one reads writings/speeches of Lincoln ... Reagan ... and others (even FDR), they rarely used language that would not be familiar to Christians of all affiliations. “Be all things to all people.”
Huckabee’s approach is ‘bad politics’ because in addition to being ineffective, there is something mildly offensive about it.
Actually, it was Fred that got McCain nominated which of course led to Zero. His job was to clear the field of any real conservative and once his mission was accomplished, he dropped out.
The Huckster is the only that can make Romney look good LOL
without Palin, Huckabee is THE voice of social conservatives in this country
ROTFLOL! I'm a conservative, including social, not a fascist like the Huck!
Some do, some don’t. What was so side-splittingly hillarious were the Slick Willardbots hiding behind me to hammer Huckster (!) I pointed out both were willfully guilty of harming not only the Conservative movement, but the state Republican parties they were in charge of.
While Slick Willard buried the MA GOP, Huckster turned around a growing state party that had the advantage of term limits turning out Democrats in districts we could win one by one, and instead, left the party weaker, and so much so in fact, you’d have to go back to the ‘60s and ‘70s when the party barely existed to see what he left behind. We don’t even a first-tier farm team in the state save the single Congressman, and it’s doubtful he’s going to go past his current job.
Still, the AR Dems are beatable with some bonafide effort, especially if we put up a state legislator named Gilbert Baker to take out Sen. Blanche Lincoln. But even if we take out Lincoln, we may still fail to take a single statewide office.
I had people (albeit very few), IIRC, saying I opposed Huckster over his religious sect. As with Slick Willard, I couldn’t care less about their sect. The issue at stake was integrity, Conservative fidelity (in deeds, not bullcrap campaign promises antithetical to what they did as Governor), and competence, and they categorically failed across the board. And add to that they’d often go out of their way to thumb Conservatives in the eye (we know what Slick Willard did, and is still doing, but a prime example of Huckster was his INSULTING of AR Christians, all because they were begging him to stop the illegal influx ruining their communities, his going into a church and berating them as non-Christians for opposing his desire to have cheap, slave labor for Tyson factories).
You’ll note, too, that these prima donna twins (and let’s face it, these two ARE very much alike), will only entertain the notion that they are deserving exclusively of the White House. They won’t “lower” themselves to put their egos in check and run for Senator when they’d ostensibly be needed. That alone tells you something right there, and pretty much all you need to know. Contrast that with Fred Thompson, who, if no one else would rise to the task, would go for a given job were he needed. The difference between serving the people and the party vs. being self-serving.
MittCare is Obamacare done at the state level...
Well that’s one step higher. It’s like being up to your nose in sewage instead of your eyes.
Maybe Huck is finally going to do something worthwhile instead of just schmoozing.
Romney is a disaster.
I look at that photo and I can only think, “What a stooge for the left, what a shill.”
I will NEVER vote for Huckleberry. Sorry. It’s obvious that Huckabee is already running.
The volunteers for that duty would be endless.
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