A Vote for Huckabee is a vote for Rudy Giuliani

Iowans for Romney ^ | 11/26/07 | Jeff Fuller

[AmericanInTokyo]

Like I said (or inferred) I doubt we will have a meeting of the minds on this one.

You are entitled to your opinion and I as well to mine.

[Jagdgewehr]

Amen!

[Edward Watson]

Absolutely right. Huckabee has no traction outside Iowa - even if he wins it, he goes no further. Romney MUST win Iowa. If he loses to Huckabee, Giuliani’s Florida firewall will succeed and he becomes, without doubt, the Republican nominee.

OTOH, if Romney wins Iowa, he will inevitably win New Hampshire, Michigan, Nevada (just wait until he places ads and an army of volunteers saturate the state), and South Carolina. This momentum will result in him winning Florida, and then locking up the nomination on Super Tuesday.

So, to all the Huckabee supporters in Iowa, think long and hard about what you’re doing because if you oppose the policies and stance of Rudy Giuliani, a vote for Huckabee GUARANTEES a Giuliani nomination.

[AmericaUnited]

Of course it is your right to have any opinion you want, but when the best and the brightest professionals who manage campaigns for a living, tell you your “opinion” is flawed, a smart person would pay attention. And none believe your “simple” scenario is true, just like the author of this article.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Like I said (or inferred) I doubt we will have a meeting of the minds on this one.

You are entitled to your opinion and I as well to mine.

[Edward Watson]

You know, I actually disagree with this assumption. Here’s why:

1. Mitt Romney was and still is unknown to most Americans whereas Hillary Clinton is known by everyone. Name recognition or lack thereof was the primary determinant in the early head-to-head polls. However, as time goes on, Hilary’s negatives become stronger and Mitt’s positives become stronger. This is why he now surpasses Hilary in the latest head-to-head poll.

2. If Mitt secures the Republican nomination, Americans will get to know him and they will inevitably prefer him than Hilary. Here’s why:

a) Mitt Romney LOOKS and SOUNDS presidential. He’s the IDEAL of what a president should be.
b) Mitt has NO scandals or baggage. No cheating on his wife. No bribery allegations. No corruption odor. No “dirty tricks” teams.
c) Mitt is a fresh face - no more “Clinton-Bush fatigue” that has plagued the nation for a generation.
d) Mitt is a genuinely good person - no bodyguard or staff member has ever said he treated them with disrespect or abuse. He even shut down his entire company just to look for a missing 14-year old girl (http://www.mittromney.com/News/In-The-News/NEWSMAX_Romney_Rescue ) As for Hillary - just ask the former secret service.
e) Mitt has executive EXPERIENCE - as governor, as CEO, as head of the Salt Lake Olympics - AND WAS HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL, despite a liberal Democratic Massachusetts, despite a scandal-plagued Olympics, despite the cutthroat business world. As for Hillary, well, perhaps being MARRIED to a president is experience - not!
f) Mitt can think on his feet - can anyone imagine an “Ask Hillary Anything” open forum?

There are other points but I need to get ready for work.

If Romney becomes the Republican nominee and Hillary becomes the Democratic nominee; Americans will have a choice between a man who looks, sounds, and behaves as the perfect president or a woman who epitomizes everything negative about modern US politics.

[Leisler]

If you’re going RINO, then Rudy. Mitt won’t even deliver Massachusetts, however RUDY can make Hildabeast spend gobs of money and time in both NY and California. That is really going to hurt in the General. The Dems haven’t had to worrie about those two, expensive, time and money eating states.

Mitt’s not going to put New York in play, at all. I’m not sure about California and Mitt.

[Vaquero]

a vote for either Giuliani, Romney, or Huckabee is just another liberal RINOfest.

[Leisler]

People tend not to like financiers, and won’t like or understand Bain Capital. Salt Lake was a run to the feds and give Utah 3-400 million dollar bailout. That’s going to be played as helping his friends. His running as a flip flop liberal is going to kill him as this is the age of YouTube. He could be perfect and being from Massachusetts is a anchor. He’s a Mormon, sorry but that’s going to hurt. He is a bit wooded, also he comes accoss as a typical Republican rich white guy. GW at least had that Texas ranch thing going for him.

[Leisler]

As much as I can stand, I’ve been watching the Dems. I’m kind of pleased, that they have moved to the right on immigrants. Now this is amongst their voters. I expect them in the general to move away from their supporters on the left and more towards the right, so we should even hear less leftist delusions from them.

This is the first time ever I have noticed this. Granted it isn’t much, but it seems to me it was always the Dems way way to the left on the primaries.

This is good for the country.

[sauropod]

I’m supporting Tancredo.

No amount of shilling by your used car salesman candidate will change my mind.

I’m not impressed. ‘Pod

[airborne]

3) Find the one WHO MOST CLOSELY REPRESENTS YOUR VIEWPOINT regardless of his standing on the "racing form".

4) Cast your vote accordingly. Your vote shows up in the column of the person you identify with most, whom you want to be President of the United States. It is to be an honest statement to the WORLD (without your name being told) as to your honest opinion, you state a moral truth.

DING! DING! DING!!!

We have a winner!!!

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

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[drpix]

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

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[Man50D]

That's ridiculous and that all-or-nothing thinking is why some are perpetually confused/surprised by what happens in the real world.

It's ridiculous to think a person can be both a Conservative and a Socialist. It's that type of thinking that has caused the GOP to appease people who are not Conservative in order to expand the party's voter base solely for the sake of winning. The result is the party abandoning what once was its core Conservative base and aligning its political ideology with the socialist Democrats. The media labeled so called "top tier" candidates are proof of the shift towards socialism.

[LibLieSlayer]

I will not vote for that baby-killing... gungrabbing, gay marriage loving liberal... or mitt or huck. You keep shilling for that rat and it will be YOU and your ilk that elects the beast!

LLS

[Catholic Iowan]

Isn’t Rudy Hillary in a dress? ;-)

[TheBattman]

I’m still not convinced that Fred is a “REAL” conservative, but he is more consistent than most of the candidates in the “top tier”.

[WildcatClan]

It’s a major tax increase? Huh? Hunters plan to make American manufactures exempt from taxes is a tax increase? You mean to tell me if I go to my bank and try to negotiate a better deal on my mortgage I am a socialist? I am thinking, what could be more socialist than building up the ChiCom military with US dollars.