Posted on 01/23/2008 12:29:02 PM PST by TitansAFC
This was a surprise. From the Hunter statement:
"I got to know Governor Huckabee well on the campaign trail," said Hunter. "Of the remaining candidates I feel that he is strongly committed to strengthening national defense, constructing the border fence and meeting the challenge of China's emergence as a military superpower that is taking large portions of America‚s industrial base."
"Along with these issues of national security, border enforcement and protecting the U.S. industrial base, I see another quality of Mike Huckabee's candidacy that compels my endorsement. Mike Huckabee is a man of outstanding character and integrity. I saw that character over the last year of campaigning and was greatly impressed. The other Republican candidates have many strengths and I wish them all well. My personal choice is Mike Huckabee," Hunter concluded.
Duncan has gone to the darkside........ damn
Huck is the only one (ron paul doesn’t count since he’s just crazy) who is really soft on national security. Mccain is also against gitmo and waterboarding but at least he has other things to make up for it.
Hunter was so strong on national security...I don’t understand this.
Put your sarcasm away because that is exactly what happened: Clintoon was elected in 1992. Two years later the Country recognized liberalism for what it is and overwhelming elected a Republican Congress and for the first time in decades, we controlled both the House and Senate. IIRC, we then added to our majority in the 1996, 1998, 2000 elections, and indeed, in 2000, we elected a Republican POTUS and controlled the White House and both houses of Congress for the first time since the 1950's(?), and we maintained control until 2006.
With the departure of my guys, Hunter and Thompson, and with McCain excluded on general principles, Romney is the best of what remains.
Since Hunter disagrees with Huck on most things that matter, I can only conclude that his endorsement is personal, rather than political. It doesn’t sway me, though, anymore than Schwartzkopf’s endorsement of McCain. I admire the general, but he’s wrong about McCain. McCain is a no-go, and Huck is in a death-grip struggle for last place with Giuliani, leaving Romney marginally ahead on points.
“LOL! Tancredo->Romney, and now Hunter->Huckabee ... I love the sound of FReepers’ heads exploding in the afternoon.”
I’m a Tancredo supporter who hesitantly supports Romney. I was real wowed by Mitt in the first couple debates, but then I started to feel he was an opportunistic snake. Tancredo’s endorsement put me back in Romney’s corner. But whether I stay in that corner remains to be seen. I really don’t trust the man. At all. I originally gave him the benefit of the doubt on abortion, but when ALL of his positions turned out to be malleable it became impossible to take him seriously. He appears to be the most all-around conservative left in the race, but his current persona is a house of cards built from conservative odds and ends. Just one more policy shift will have the whole thing collapsing.
Why do they have to endorse at all?
Think judges.
Wow... I guess you and others here just want me to drop trou and grease up. What is a Conservative to do... if he truly believes in the ideology and lives what he preaches? It won’t be dropping trou.
LLS
LOL. So true.
I can't believe how stupid and obstinate some "true blue" conservatives have been in this election cycle.
So Duncan Hunter is saying that even though Huckabee has been pro-illegal immigrant in a variety of ways, the same Mike Huckabee that signed "The Pledge" a DAY BEFORE the SC Primary, Huckabee would construct the border fence? Whatever. I have no other way to look at this as anything but a petty act focused towards amnesty McCain (rightfully) and strong borders Romney (wrongly). I've lost all respect and will now just allow him to fall back into obscurity.
Hunter endorses an amnesty-supporting, Gitmo-closing, “Stop-the-WOT”, “Bush-is-arrogant”, NEA-supporting Christian-only candidate who scares the pants off of most conservatives ... and you consider it “understandable.”
Yet Mitt Romney utters one or two little toss-away lines that everyone has equal rights under the US Constitution — and the response is TRAITOR FLIP-FLOPPER HOMO-LOVER LIBERAL LIAR LIAR!!
If the HUNTER-ONLY crowd wasn’t so sad, they would be laughable.
Well, thanks. It was funny because I wrote my entire first response before it dawned on me what had happened.
Actually, I already called Hunter picking someone FR hates a while ago, though I thought it would be McCain, since he’s a fellow Vietnam vet.
I wonder with Hunter being called a traitor now, what prominent Republican politicians are there at all for FR to rally around? I’m not just talking about presidential candidates.
If ya ever ate mud before, then you will know politics is a dirty business .. man,, tancredo goes for mitt,, duncan for Huck.. at least Fred just walked away from endorsing anyone..
Ouch .. this ‘re-defining conservatism’ sure is a prickly process, eh?
“Vote for McCain.”
I’d rather wipe with 60-grit sandpaper, and wash off the effect with turpentine.
Does not fit.
Huckabee is mischaracterized as liberal on economic issues.
Huckabee gets negative press for the sales tax going up in a state with a balanced budget amendment. I have much less issue sales taxes esp at the state level then I do with income taxes, as sales taxes are voluntary and income taxes are not. Taxing work/productivity/income is evil. Income taxes/property taxes/estate taxes are central the tenants of marxism, sales taxes are not.
Huckabee’s positives on taxes:
Pushed through a Democrat legislature the first, major broad based tax cuts in the state’s history (168 years)
Pushed through a Democrat legislature an $80 million tax cut package.
Cut the state’s capital gains tax by 25%.
Established a Property Taxpayers’ Bill of Rights
Limited the increase in property taxes to 10% a year for individuals and 5% per taxing unit
Eliminated the income tax for families below the poverty line.
Increased the standard deductions.
Eliminated the marriage penalty.
Eliminated bracket creep by indexing the income taxes to inflation, thereby preventing taxpayers from moving into a higher bracket when their paychecks increase due to inflations.
Doubled the child care tax credit.
Eliminated capital gains tax on the sale of a home.
That is not a socialist.
I tried that.... alas, too many exploding heads. Turned my Orville Redenbachers' into a bag of ciders.
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