Posted on 01/31/2008 2:09:25 PM PST by Jim Robinson
My friends, I have to admit that I've been in a bit of a quandary since the Real Conservatives ® Thompson and Hunter dropped out of the race leaving us to to place our bets on one the four headless horsemen. But after having a day or three to sort it all out, I'm beginning to see a ray of hope.
Number one, my worst fear that the pro-abortion, pro-gay, anti-gun social liberal Rudy Giuliani might be nominated, and thereby bring an abrupt and unholy end to the pro-life conservative movement within the GOP has been allayed. His evil culture of death platform has been soundly rejected by the Republican voters. Thank God! If nothing else is gained, that alone is a huge victory for us!
And that leaves us with the unwelcome slippery task of having to determine and select the least evil of the three remaining RINOs. But wait! When choosing between evils, why not choose the good?
McCain is insane and there are many good reasons not to choose him, but I'll list just five: McCain-Feingold, McCain-Kennedy, McCain-Lieberman, the Keating 5, and the Gang of 14. No thanks. McCain is out!
Romney ran on a pro-abortion platform, is pro gay rights, is prone to BIG government solutions, promises anything to anyone for a vote, and flip-flops on important issues. Can't trust him.
Now Governor Huckabee. Could this be the good vs evil? He's a Baptist minister. A genuine 100% pro-God, pro-life, pro-family, pro-gun, Southron Christian social conservative!
And that would be my reason no. 1 to support Huckabee. He has the trust and backing of the Christian evangelicals and the support of the Bible Belt. You cannot win the presidency without the South, and I believe the pro-God, pro-life, pro-family, pro-gun, pro-America Mike Huckabee is the most likely of the three GOP hopefuls to carry the South. And that's a pretty darn good reason!
My number two reason is that he is NOT McCain (and that's a pretty darn good reason too).
Number three (and this will be a tough one for a lot of my FReeper Friends) is that he is NOT Romney.
Numbers four and five are he's NOT Hillary and NOT Obama. Oohrah!
Number six, he plays a mean bass and he's a traditional favorite at Free Republic's infamous quadrennial Inaugural Balls in Washington, DC. Perhaps we could persuade President Huckabee to drop by our ball and perform his rocking rendition of "Sweet Home Alabama!" Now, wouldn't that be a hoot!
Number seven, if we can keep Huckabee in the race all the way through, thus preventing McCain or Romney from gaining enough delegates to win the nomination, then maybe, just maybe a deadlocked convention might seek out another candidate. One who can re-unite the Reagan Coalition, save the GOP, and put us back on the conservative track. Of course, my personal favorite to be that man would be FRed Thompson.
Woo hoo!!
Let it ring out through grassroots America and on to the convention! Support life! Support the GOP! Support Huckabee! And re-draft FRed Thompson!!
Never give in, never give up, and never lose hope.
Long live the Reagan Revolution!
What worries me is his past actions on illegals & release of convicted criminals. He is obviously is too soft hearted to be an executive and protector of tax payers money.
But Huckabee is higher on my list than McCain who is a dirty politician and a lier. Romney has decency and private business experience which no one else has.
not missing the point.
We don’t want huckabee as VP either.
giving him votes gives him delegates gives him power to demand.
The best bet now is to vot for Romney so McCain does not get the delegates he needs.
Don’t forget we also have kookpaul out there who might get a few delegates and thus some demanding power too.
the goal has to be to shut out the bottom snowball in heck candidates and focus on the top two.
Tactically speaking that is.
No, wecome (Welcome) to Free Republic. But for how long???
I guess you know by now that Jim Robinson posted this thread to which you so vocally disagree with.
John / Billybob
Wake up and smell the fine odor of fertilizer wafting in the afternoon breeze.
What will his position be tomorrow? You don’t know. The guy will hold office for four years, and he could change his mind on every issue twice by then, if his past is any indication.
Actors are so cool.
I’d vote for Tom Cruise as Supreme Ruler of the Universe.
(PS... sarcasm is fun)
only if the pinky swear promise to be really really really good and never do crime again.
(sorry, you response was so lmao good)
None of them are squeaky clean.
I think no one will quit,no one will win,the big whig republicans will not get their way,Thompson has the good qualities of the other candidates,Fred will be everyones second choice.I like the chances and no matter how someone spins it to put down or build up,it’s headed to Fred’s corner,not saying by convention time there might others in the same corner,but the candidates that are out there now are all losers,and will pretty much lose equally.
I can only offer one good reason to support Huckabee. A vote for Huckabee gives McCain the nomination. So when McCain is elected lets reach across the isle and offer our liberal friends the right hand of fellowship. Our first order of business would be the McCain impeachment. I’m in.
If democrates really believe McCain is a republican they’d all be in too. Tt’s partytime.
At least you have to hand it to him on this point, things get a little easier if you use 2000 stats. Good call Mitt.
Just for clarification, which CFR are you referring to? Campaign Finance or Council on Foreign Relations?
The Pro Life is the MAIN reason to choose The Huck!
After infanticide every thing else is just incremental evil.
or you might be able to push him to your side too.
I would rather have a real world businessman than a career DC beltway insider like McCain or Giulaini.
We need people who live in the real world of business. Not the same old DC insiders who think “path to citizenship” is not really really amnesty if they just say it over and over and over again.
Thoughtful and insightful analysis.
“pro-America Mike Huckabee “
I can’t label anyone who describes America’s foreign policy as ‘arrogant’ as pro-American.
Please provide grounds for impeaching him. I don’t know of any, and I don’t think there are many out there that are less inclined to vote for him than I.
I think those were Huckabee’s numbers in a pledge he signed or said he would sign or something or other to obfuscate his actions as governor w/r illegals.
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