Posted on 01/19/2008 9:11:03 PM PST by FocusNexus
It's clear who Huckabee camp is blaming for its squeaker of a loss in South Carolina: Fred Thompson.
After Huckabee's gracious concession speech -- in which he had nothing but kind words for John McCain who he said showed great "civility" -- former SC Gov. David Beasley, a Huckabee surrogate, railed against Thompson.
"Fred hurt us in South Carolina," Beasley began. "He had one goal and one goal only -- to distort Mike Huckabee's record so John McCain could pull it out. No ifs, ands or buts about it...
"Thompson came here and just went to the areas where he could gut Huckabee. I have no doubt in my mind, it was Washington politics at its worst.
"One thing about Fred; I love Fred, but Fred's not stupd...I don't think he had any intention in South Carolina but to hurt Mike Huckab... Had Fred Thompson not been in the race, this would have been an overwhelming, dynamic victory for Mike Huckabee."
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” Well the guy on Fox News tonight said Romney should drop out if he doesnt win FL. I am through with Fox News. That is a ludicrous statement at this point in time. And the Fox people say not one word.”
What other world would ask someone leading a race in delegate votes to drop out.......
These guys focus too much on things that haven’t happened yet, instead of looking at what reality is.....
Perfect example is the predicted OBAMA win in New Hampshire....
LOL!
More like goin' down on Kennedy with his mouth wide open. Sorry.
Hillary campaign: “That upstart Obama is taking my rightful votes!”
Huckabee campaign: “That upstart Thompson is taking my rightful votes!”
The similarity is striking. Do they teach this overdeveloped sense of entitlement in the Arkansas schools?
Note to Hill and Huck: No matter how miraculously, wonderfully, fantastically anointed you may think you are, you still have to EARN votes.
“Where is his (Huck’s) support coming from? Southern Baptist hicks with their head in the sand?”
Deserves repeating. The Old Coalitions are finished and these people need to get, as you rightly say, their heads out of the sand.
This guy will set the Republican Party back a la George McGovern style and deservedly so.
It sounds just like a crybaby liberal democrat. Priceless.
Uckabee is scum, but so is McVain. The whole “Fred” thing has been one big disappointment
I have to conjecture that what you say may be entirely true. Both Fred and McLame have been on The Hill for a long time. I got a sneaky feeling that it’s a setup for the US citizen. If McLame gets the nomination, then we’ll have a RHINO POTUS at best with a Dem controlled Congress or worse yet, Hitlery as POTUS because she can beat McLame with all the socialists and Libs in this country.
/vent
Since when did Fred telling the truth about Huckster’s tax increases become surly? Huckster was a Dem at one time is definitely a socialist liberal.
Ha ha. Where were the black helicopters when Rush was claiming McCain and Huckabee were conspiring together to take votes away from Mitt, and all the dittoheads ate it up?
That dude is an idiot. Fred was leading in SC in November. Huckabee-come-lately just got on the radar in the last month or two, siphoning Fred’s support. Those folks need to get over themselves.
What a bunch of whining garbage.
ClusterHuck!!!
I haven’t laughed since before the primary votes came in until just now. I needed it, thanks.
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