Posted on 01/13/2008 10:55:13 PM PST by Kurt Evans
Our country is definitely in a cultural fight for its life. And what's at stake is the very heart and core of America ...
More than any other election in decades, this presidential one has erected a fighting ring in which conservatism will either maintain its title or be stripped of it by the appointment of leadership that will champion secular progressive change...
Even now our own GOP candidates are wrestling over who is truly conservative.
At the last round of debates, Fred Thompson, degraded by his own dilapidating campaign and threatened by Mike Huckabee's lead in the polls, tried to liberalize Mike ...
Even radio host Rush Limbaugh heckled Huckabee with a similar liberal lashing, accusing him of not being a conservative in the line of Ronald Reagan – an unfortunate "Rush to judgment"...
Any GOP candidate can be dissected to a point that he is railed for having liberal tendencies...
And while former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson is also a friend, his record of consistently voting against tort reform, opposing the impeachment of Bill Clinton on perjury, supporting opponents of Reagan (Ford and Baker) in 1976 and 1980, and failing to support federal constitutional amendments that would ban abortion and gay marriage doesn't exactly make him "the only true conservative."
To be fair, even if Reagan himself were running today, he likely couldn't dodge liberal labeling, especially for his signing of the Immigration Control and Reform Act of 1986, which granted amnesty to aliens who resided in the U.S. since before 1982.
As I've already shown in my past WND columns, most liberal accusations against Mike Huckabee's record on immigration, taxes and crime are also biased, out-of-context rushes to judgment.
The complete record and platform [link in post #2] of this former Arkansas governor reveals a tried-and-true conservative.
(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...
Either Hunter, Thompson, Romney if I must, Rudy if I absolutely have too. Not because any are perfect, but because they don’t lie about their records and have some measure of conservatism to them. You don’t get it. Huck parses, strings words into clever little arrangements, and wraps himself in evangelism to deny who he was.
For Romney or Rudy, I can at least give them a lookover because they either admit they are liberal, or admit they were liberal at some time in the past. Huck would have been far smarter to admit the things he did as governor, as Romney did. Then at least I could feel like I could half-ass trust him. But he tried to Clinton his way thru it, and I will absolutely not vote for that.
Keep posting the full script on Huckabee, we are in the Hunt for Red October phase now....
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