Posted on 01/18/2008 8:44:16 AM PST by pissant
PROSPERITY, S.C. -- Fred Thompson called on Mike Huckabee to put a stop to push polling calls that misrepresent Thompson’s record.
“I find it ironic that this man would talk about cleaner politics and rising above the fray,” Thompson said, “while this is going on right under his nose.”
At an event in Prosperity today, a Thompson volunteer stood up during the audience questions portion and said a lot of people had received negative phone calls that “misrepresented your record.”
“Really?” Thompson asked, seeming genuinely surprised. “Could I ask you to raise your hand if you got a phone call like that?”
Roughly half the 75 people in attendance raised their hands.
“Good gracious,” Thompson said. “Who do they say is calling? Do they say anything good about any candidate?”
“Huckabee,” the audience responded.
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I have nothing to do with with this post. It is all my fingers doing.
I don’t trust crowdsize numbers from any media source.Point taken. They upgrade leftist protest numbers and downgrade conservative rallies. Routinely.
It doesn’t really matter how many people were actually present when in such a small venue we know there was a maximum.
Can I have some of what your smoking?
Was it illegal in those states? It is in SC, that is why it is a issue now.
I just did email Drudge the link, and I’ve wiped better off the bottom of my shoe than Ed Rollins... This Huckabee guy is a fraud
“(Huckabee) could stop them with a word and he has not even tried nor even castigated them.”
False. Don’t you read the news?
Uh huh..and Huckabee's campaign committee responds with a "what can we do, it's a free country".
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Huckabee is scum.
That's the beauty of push polling, full deniability. You know who did it, but can't prove it unless someone talks.
Huckabee’s campaign has said it doesn’t know anything about the push polls and doesn’t condone them.
That’s all Huckabee be can do. He can’t stop people from calling.
Thompson is speaking to only 75 people at this time of his campaign? I hope he at least comes in third in front of Romney, who has left the state.
But will the Huckster ask them to sotp? No, because push polls work.
But will the Huckster ask them to sotp? No, because push polls work.
Fred is in fourth place in the new fos poll for SC and in the Rasmussen poll yesterday. McCain may win with Fred’s help, but fred is toast and Huck will go on.
Please dont tell me you actually believe that, Hucksterbee has been doing this dirty work since Iowa.
News Release: Huckabee Campaign Asks For Investigation Into Push Polling Calls In New Hampshire
December 17, 2007
Little Rock, AR - The Huckabee for President Campaign today called for an investigation of media reports regarding recorded phone calls involving negative attacks against several presidential candidates who are campaigning in New Hampshire.
“It has recently come to our attention that a group known as ‘Common Sense Issues’ has made recorded calls to voters in New Hampshire,” wrote Campaign Manager John “Chip” Saltsman in a December 17, 2007 letter to Secretary of State William M. Gardner requesting an investigation.
“We were not aware of such a program nor do we condone such tactics,” Saltsman said, noting that it is campaign policy to “oppose any deceptive campaign tactics.”
“For this reason, we ask that you have your office investigate these calls further. We welcome the opportunity to assist your investigation and look forward to your findings,” wrote Saltsman.
Saltsman said the Huckabee campaign issued a similar letter to the Iowa Attorney General requesting for an investigation into alleged push polling calls being made in that state.
Last week, Saltsman and Huckabee denounced push polling activities activities in Iowa, New Hampshire, and any state in the country.
“As I’ve said before, our campaign has nothing to do with push polling and I wish they would stop. We don’t want this kind of campaigning because it violates the spirit of our campaign. I want to become President because I am the best candidate, not because I disabled the other candidates,” said Huckabee during a campaign stop in New Hampshire on Saturday.
Saltsman stated: “Anyone who has the slightest understanding of the race ahead and the mindset of voters would know this sort of activity is extremely counterproductive. It takes the campaign off message at a time when Governor Huckabee is resonating with voters as never before. It loses votes rather than gains them. It’s an underhanded way of doing business that is not welcomed by the campaign and it flies in the face of what Governor Huckabee stands for: integrity and clean politics. On behalf of Governor Huckabee and his campaign, I ask once again that these calls be stopped immediately.”
http://www.mikehuckabee.com/?FuseAction=Newsroom.PressRelease&ID=443
“You know who did it, but can’t prove it unless someone talks.”
The group doing the push polls has openly described its activities to the news media on numerous occasions.
As in this Associated Press report two days ago:
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gFdJLRoMsNkoGISqo7DvPxX0P7-QD8U6NO700
Better McCain than Huckabee.
But you’re wrong, just as every poll has been so far.
Hillary was supposed to win Iowa. New Hampshire was supposed to be a blow out for Obama. McCain was supposed to squeeze by in Michigan, not get blown away by Romney.
The only thing reliable about the polls so far has been just how unreliable they’ve been.
And Rush was just saying that there is movement in South Carolina for Fred unlike anything. Reports on the ground are that the race is now Fred’s to lose there.
So who are you going to believe?
The pollsters who make a career out of being wrong, or Rush who is right 98.8% of the time?
“Huckabee has nothing to do with these calls. They are an independent campaign.”
It’s a good reflection of the kind of dishonest supporters who are attracted to him.
I was listening to Laura Ingraham talking with Center for Immigration Studies Mark Krikorian yesterday . Huckabee claims Krikorian devised his ‘immigration’ policy for him. Mark said he had been contacted by several people and wrote up a brief ‘what had to be done list’, by no means a complete policy that was published some time ago.
Huckabee simply took that article, added little to it and implied Mark and Huck worked out this new ‘policy’. Mark has never worked with or endorsed Huck. Never. His supporters made it sound like CIS had worked with him on this and thereby endorsed him for Pres.
Krikorian says, [Well, at least he finally credited me with writing it]
Cool clips (Laura365) NEW! Mark Kirkorian on the immigration issue.(pay to play)
This seems to be the article Krikorian was talking about that Huckabee hijacked. http://www.cis.org/articles/2005/mskoped052305.html Ten Points for a Successful Presidential Candidate
By Mark Krikorian National Review May 23, 2005
Plagiarist Huckabee???
http://www.riehlworldview.com/carnivorous_conservative/2008/01/wapo-huckabee-p.html
“I have created a nine point immigration policy that says there is a 120 day period in which people go to their home country and start the process from the back of the line.”
—Mike Huckabee, Republican Debate, Myrtle Beach, S.C., Jan. 10, 2008.
This isn’t coming from a Romney campaign release; this is the Washington Post”
Follow the second link to this quote:
“When the campaign announced the governor’s nine-point immigration plan on Dec. 6, it noted that it was “partially modeled” on Krikorian’s proposal three years earlier. But Huckabee took credit for the plan in the Republican debate on Thursday night, and Mitt Romney’s campaign is crying foul. A Romney “Fact Check” said that the Huckabee plan had lifted “whole sections of Krikorian’s editorial without quotes or direct attribution.”
ALSO
Cato Institute’s Fiscal Policy Report Card on America’s Governors: 2006. http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=6724
Arkansas Mike Huckabee, Republican Legislature: Democratic Final-Term Grade: F Final Overall Grade: D
Thanks to a final term grade of F, Huckabee earns an overall grade of D for his entire governorship. Like many Republicans, his grades dropped the longer he stayed in office. In his first few years, he fought hard for a sweeping $70 million tax cut package that was the first broad-based tax cut in the state in more than 20 years. He even signed a bill to cut the state’s 6 percent capital gains tax—a significant progrowth accomplishment.
But nine days after being reelected in 2002, he proposed a sales tax increase to cover a budget deficit caused partly by large spending increases that he proposed and approved, including an expansion in Medicare eligibility that Huckabee made a centerpiece of his 1997 agenda. He agreed to a 3 percent income tax “surcharge” and a 25-cent cigarette tax increase. In response to a court order to increase spending on education, Huckabee proposed another sales tax increase. Huckabee wants to run for the GOP presidential nomination next year. He’s already been hailed as a viable big-government conservative candidate by some. That seems about right: Huckabee’s leadership has left taxpayers in Arkansas much worse off.
Apparently the good folks in Arkansas had a rough time of it with Mike Huckabee: Big Government Conservative.
Huckabee was in line with these governors:
Montana Brian Schweitzer (D)* 47 F Alabama Bob Riley (R) 47 F Washington Christine Gregoire (D)* 47 F Arkansas Mike Huckabee (R) 46 F Nevada Kenny Guinn (R) 46 F Delaware Ruth Ann Minner (D)* 44 F North Carolina Michael Easley (D)* 44 F Arizona Janet Napolitano (D) 43 F Louisiana Kathleen Blanco (D)* 43 F Ohio Bob Taft (R) 53 C Kentucky Ernie Fletcher (R) 53 C Maryland Robert Ehrlich (R) 53 C Vermont James Douglas (R) 53 C Michigan Jennifer Granholm (D) 53 C
http://ajacksonian.blogspot.com/2007/12/looking-at-republican-field.html
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