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.
Pissant: "You get your moderate nominated over Hunter and I’ll vote for him."Stan: "Geesh. You get Hunter over 2% in NH and Iowa, and I'll consider advising Thompson to give him a Cabinet post."
...the mere idea that Hunter would sign up with the left-leanin', double-dealin', Ed Rollins-squealin', populismin' Huckabillies is cause for serious pause...
Welcome back to the back bench, Duncan.
I feel sick.
I doubt that. He said flat out that if McCain or Huckabee get the nomination, that it will ruin the Republican party. That doesn’t sound like something he would go along with.
Not that there was anyone worth endorsing. I imagine he had to pick someone.
McCain looks great compared to Huckabee.
Anyone who doesn’t support Medicare D (8 trillion unfunded liabilities)gets my respect.
I may well write in Fred but one thing is very clear, I will NEVER vote for one of the NE liberal puke twins!
What a choice.
Let's give Huck his due. That is the closest anyone has expressed the reason for the 2nd Amendment. The part he got wrong is that it has nothing at all to do with hunting for food or sport.
Fact is, SHE DOES.
Just ask Arnold about the Shriver Syndrome.
Easy cheesy to see where the influence comes from.
Pulpit over politics, in this case.
Hunter undoubtedly had a closer look at Huckabee than conservative media commentators who have never met Huckabee or people commenting on a forum who have never bothered to research original sources or take a close look at what Huckabee actually says rather than what others are saying about him.
It speaks volumes that the candidates who have had a chance to get to know one another personally generally like Mike and dislike Mitt, as did the Iowa voters who were able to evaluate candidates face-to-face.
Wrong. Jim Gilchrist made that endorsement, NOT the Minutemen. Jim Gilchrist and the Minutemen have been feuding for a long time now, and to say that Gilchrist represents "the Minutemen" is a misrepresentation.
That Rasmussen poll was released Dec. 22, which means it was probably taken between Dec.10 and Dec.20 —
A month is a lifetime in politics, especially THIS election cycle.
I will bet my bottom dollar that resistance to Romney has dropped substantially today, considering all the positive support and promotion of Romney from Limbaugh, Hannity, Michelle Malkin, Ann Coulter, Hugh Hewitt, and dozens of others the past month.
Besides, if I’m not mistaken, Dec. 20 was Romney’s worst week as Huckabee’s star was surging. He was the talk of the media, and looked unstoppable.
Limbaugh and the others are finally getting out the truth about Romney, which is that he governed Massachusetts as a relative conservative.
He is NOT this lib flip flopper that the hard-liner Hunter-only crowd has been claiming the past two months.
Did Romney make a few dumb pandering PC comments during a 1993 debate with Teddy Kennedy? Yep.
But they were just that. Rhetorical comments.
Romney never pushed to create homo scout masters. He did not push for taxpayer funded abortions for all women, and he did not propose government run healthcare.
Those are ALL bullcrap distortions in the extreme. They are based on two second quips from out-of-context comments Romney made to a reporter who was trying to nail his Republican butt to the wall.
They are NOT position papers released by Romney from the Governor’s desk.
Face it. Hunter and Huckabee are Lincoln Republicans.
“...that government of the people, by the people and for the people shall not perish from the earth.”
See my repeated links to Michelle Malkin’s post about their differences. Also HotAir.com. And innumerable other flabbergasted posters. Short version: shamnesty, taxation, Gitmo/WOT. There are others, but obviously I’m talking to someone who’s made up his mind.
At least one of your “affinities” are weasel-worded talking points. For example, to believe that Huck is good on illegal immigration — good, in the way that Hunter was demonstrably good for decades — because Huck recently took some pledge is simply silly. You’re the first person to say straight-facedly that Huck is good on this issue, and that is simply shocking. (I’ve had Huck folks say things like, Yeah, he’s weak on that issue, but I have more important ones.) Because this was probably Hunter’s strongest single issue, illegal immigration, I find the endorsement perplexing and, frankly, smelly.
Speaking of recent conversions: The point about guns and abortion and marriage is fair enough given Mitt Romney’s “recent conversion” on those issues, and Giuliani’s frank liberalism on them.
All of the major GOP candidates support a stronger military, so that is not particularly helpful in distinguishing amongst them.
Back up your accusation with Facts.
In the end Rush is a Republican Party supporter and I know he is not a McCain fan but if he said something like that with Huckabee then he left out Romney... or maybe you just left out Romney.
You must be under 30 to not know the incredible (make that you must be under 30 or "incredulous" to not know the) subterfuge that Reagan and his proxies hammered down on the Rockefeller/Ford milquetoast wing of the GOP in '76. And yet despite Reagan's best efforts, they got double-dealt, just like Rush is warning the rest of US right now.
So enjoy the milque with your toast, milquetoast.
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