Huckabee Will Not Endorse Anyone in the Controversial NY-23 Race (AWOL in conservative vs. GOP race)

Tolbert Report ^ | 10-16-09

[CharlesWayneCT]

I can understand that, but with so few leaders taking that challenge, it seems to be over-thinning the field.

It’s not like Fred Thompson is going to run again in 2012.

Personally, given that this is a general election, and NOT a primary, and dede, for whatever horrid reason, IS the republican, and realising how I would feel if we had a conservative chosen and the RINOS jumped ship and endorsed an independent, I’m going to limit my contempt to those who actively endorse Dede.

Anybody who simply stays out of the race, I’m going to say that’s as good as saying NO to Dede, since she is the republican nominee and would normally EXPECT to get republicans to endorse her.

But that’s just my position, I’m not saying that you are wrong, just that I’m willing to cut republicans some slack at not actively opposing republicans in the general elections.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Polls don’t mean squat right now

[truth_seeker]

“Polls don’t mean squat right now”

What an easy way to dodge responding to the points I made.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

What an easy way to dodge responding to the points I made.

What points?

(1) Palin's not a declared presidential candidate
(2) The election is 3 years away
(3) Conservatives aren't going to support Huck or Mitt

[LachlanMinnesota]

The Huckster leading from the rear, I see.

[LachlanMinnesota]

Why would you assume taht someone who previously ran for President and will do so again would not have his finger on the pulse of all of these elections? Your assumption taht he is justified by his ignorance is a pretty lame defense for someone purporting to be a leader of the party!

[DannyTN]

That’s an awful lot of elections and NY is a long way from Arkansas. Besides, I’ve already pointed out that Huckabee has made several endorsements in the last month.
So what if he skips a NY race.

Maybe he knows something about the conservative that gives him pause. Or maybe he doesn’t think the conservative has a strong enough chance of beating the GOP candidate to waste political capital on. I don’t know, but Huckabee’s endorsement is his own. He’ll give it to whom he wants and withhold where he wants.

[mkjessup]

The statist RINO Huckaphony can go to h*ll.

Huck is one of what I now refer to as 'BAU-RINOS', still 'Republican In Name Only' but 'Business As Usual'. Just like Mitt-Witt, Lindsey 'My Estrogen is Pumpin' Graham, and John 'We have nothing to fear from an 0bama Administartion' McInsane.

Those jokers and their ilk look at the governmental mess in Washington as perhaps an old car that just "needs some work", a good wash and wax, scrub the rainbow-wall tires ('cuz God knows we don't want to refer to 'white' walls, lol), promise something to everybody, and everything to somebody, print more money and spend it, and 'fix' the problems.

That ain't gonna cut it anymore.

It's time to start closing the doors and shutting down the useless parts of our federal government (try to resist the temptation to say "all of it"), we could start with:

Department of Education: what in Hell do we need a federal department of education for?!? What have they done besides soak up more federal dollars for their bureaucrats and tell local schools what they can and can not do? This Department was created in 1979 only for the purpose of paying off the NEA. And who signed off on the creation of this money sponge? Noneother than Jimmy STP Carter, and that alone ought to tell us that it should be dismantled because everything Carter ever touched or touches, turns to 100 percent pure sh*t!

How about the 'Department of Energy'?!? Guess what folks, another Carter boondoggle, the Buffoon from Georgia threw the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the Federal Energy Administration, the Energy Research and Development Administration, and the Federal Power Commission all together in a great big mixing bowl, and said "here ya go, waste money with greater efficiency than ever before, NOW you're a federal level Department you lucky SOBs!" (and the latest indignity? The DOE failed it's own 'energy audit' so far as conserving power, reported in the Wall Street Journal!)

Department of Education current budget: 68.6 billion

Department of Energy current budget: 26.4 billion.

There is 93 billion wasted federal dollars that needed to be on the chopping block decades ago.

[rabscuttle385]

what in Hell do we need a federal department of education for?!? What have they done besides soak up more federal dollars for their bureaucrats and tell local schools what they can and can not do? This Department was created in 1979 only for the purpose of paying off the NEA. And who signed off on the creation of this money sponge? Noneother than Jimmy STP Carter, and that alone ought to tell us that it should be dismantled because everything Carter ever touched or touches, turns to 100 percent pure sh*t!

You think that's bad, eh?

It was just the beginning.

In 1985, tuition and fees at the University I attended were on the order of $1,500...per year, IIRC. Since then they have grown at approx. 8-10% per year.

Thanks to cheap credit (the creation of Federally-guaranteed student loans and later changes to the bankruptcy code that treated private student loans the same way as Federal student loans in bankruptcy), the Feds have created a generation of Americans that is largely in debt.

It's truly disgusting.

[Impy]

Bucking the party from the right is something too controversial for the Huckster.