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Huckabee’s Candidacy Could Mean Showdown with Libertarians
The Blaze ^ | May 4, 2015 | Fred Lucas

Posted on 05/05/2015 10:03:07 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee will be entering a very different Republican primary field when he announces his candidacy Tuesday, one that will likely bring up the debate over where libertarians stand in the Republican party, while also facing more competition for social conservative voters than eight years ago.

“Huckabee does have name recognition having been on Fox News all this time,” Tim Hagle, a political science professor at the University of Iowa, told TheBlaze. “At the same time, after he won the caucuses here in 2008, there was a lot of concern that he wasn’t as conservative as some thought.”(continued)

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TOPICS: Campaign News; Issues; Parties
KEYWORDS: 2016election; arkansas; election2016; huckabee; lping; mikehuckabee
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To: ansel12

Ansel,

You judge a man by the fruit of the tree of his life.

The fruit of the tree of Huckabee’s life doesn’t always match his profession of Christianity.


61 posted on 05/05/2015 12:37:30 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: Jim Robinson

I read it and remember it, it was along shot, but you have to make some strange calls when push comes to shove.


62 posted on 05/05/2015 12:38:52 PM PDT by ansel12
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To: Responsibility2nd
Pretty sure are you?

See post 47 and put your money where your mouth is.

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Wow, I'm stunned. Please see:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1962819/posts

Technically, Jim Robinson (who owns freerepublic.com) endorsed Huckabee and not the website itself.

Was Jim on or off his meds that day?

I voted for the Sarah Palin ballot choice in 2008 and hoped for a massive December heart attack for Juan McCain.

63 posted on 05/05/2015 12:39:06 PM PDT by Sideshow Bob
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To: Sideshow Bob

Read the last part of my post.


64 posted on 05/05/2015 12:40:27 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: Jim Robinson
Courtesy ping.

Okay ... left with the "no-win scenario" of McQueeg, Romney and Huckabee ... you went with Huck as the lesser of 3 evils in '08.

If you would be so kind as to weigh in on this thread of your thoughts on the Huckabee campaign in 2016 ... I for one believe it would be very beneficial to the thread.

65 posted on 05/05/2015 12:40:38 PM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: SoConPubbie

I’m not even close to ready to start attacking Huckabee as a man who is not really a Christian, but someone who is faking it.


66 posted on 05/05/2015 12:40:58 PM PDT by ansel12
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To: Servant of the Cross; Jim Robinson

I see that you already beat me to it. Thanks Boss.


67 posted on 05/05/2015 12:41:48 PM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: Servant of the Cross

wrong. I went with Thompson. Read the thread.


68 posted on 05/05/2015 12:41:51 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: Sideshow Bob

JR is freerepublic, his endorsement is THE freerepublic endorsement, whether we 100s of thousands of individuals who have signed up here, agree with it or not.


69 posted on 05/05/2015 12:43:41 PM PDT by ansel12
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To: Jim Robinson
Number seven, if we can keep Huckabee in the race all the way through, thus preventing McCain or Romney from gaining enough delegates to win the nomination, then maybe, just maybe a deadlocked convention might seek out another candidate.

OK, I feel better now. You were actually endorsing "None of the Above". Sorry to have doubted you.

Kind of funny, but kind of sad that the pro-Huckaphony crowd will still trumpet your "endorsement" nearly a decade later.

70 posted on 05/05/2015 12:44:43 PM PDT by Sideshow Bob
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To: Servant of the Cross

Weighing in, I would love Huckabee and his band to perform at our Inaugural Ball for President Cruz.


71 posted on 05/05/2015 12:44:51 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: ansel12

I did not endorse Huckasbee. Read the thread.


72 posted on 05/05/2015 12:45:47 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: Jim Robinson
Weighing in, I would love Huckabee and his band to perform at our Inaugural Ball for President Cruz.

                                                 Thatsa good one Boss!

73 posted on 05/05/2015 12:49:03 PM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: ansel12; Sideshow Bob; 2ndDivisionVet
... when freerepublic endorsed him ...

I guess that you are in the process of asking the Mod to delete all of your false posts now?

74 posted on 05/05/2015 12:50:57 PM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: Jim Robinson

Post 69 was just in general, but while I remember the strategy about Thompson, that 2008 thread sure looked like an endorsement.

I took it as an endorsement with hopes of something breaking loose to our benefit, although Thompson had dropped out, but also as you picking the lessor of three evils if nothing did break loose for Thompson.


75 posted on 05/05/2015 12:52:25 PM PDT by ansel12
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To: ansel12

Yeah, it was an endorsement—for Fred Thompson.


76 posted on 05/05/2015 12:54:34 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: Sideshow Bob

I’ve never been pro-Huckabee, and am not now, but that non-endorsement was widely seen as an endorsement.


77 posted on 05/05/2015 12:54:52 PM PDT by ansel12
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To: Jim Robinson

So even though Thompson had already left the race, none of that thread was intended as a bleed over into the ‘lessor of 3 evils choice’?


78 posted on 05/05/2015 12:56:32 PM PDT by ansel12
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To: Servant of the Cross
No, false posts here. I got sucked in by ansel's insistence and searched for Jim's endorsement. My search found a Huckabee supporter website with a link to Jim's 2008 post. I was so gobsmacked that an "endorsement" existed that I didn't read through to the end of Jim's post.

I now remember Jim's post and vaguely remember endorsing the strategy of forcing the 2008 GOP nomination to a second ballot. Like Jim, I was a FRedhead back then.

79 posted on 05/05/2015 1:01:12 PM PDT by Sideshow Bob
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To: ansel12

You were wrong. get over it.


80 posted on 05/05/2015 1:02:25 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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