Unfortunately, Jimmy's not an American citizen and tends to stick to lead. If it's an American Bassist with time on their hands, Leather Tuscadero might be the way to go for the GOP in '08.
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!
Unfortunately, Jimmy's not an American citizen and tends to stick to lead. If it's an American Bassist with time on their hands, Leather Tuscadero might be the way to go for the GOP in '08.
Yes, I know that.
You mean like Paul, who also has an A+ rating from GOA and is very pro-life. He wants to get rid of Department of Education and a bunch of other Departments.
He believes most everything should be left to the States or the people. He believes we should follow the Constitution.
FreeRepublic used to like him.
Now because he is/was against the Iraq invasion, every one calls him a Kook.
I will write him in.
You mean like Paul, who also has an A+ rating from GOA and is very pro-life. He wants to get rid of Department of Education and a bunch of other Departments.
He believes most everything should be left to the States or the people. He believes we should follow the Constitution.
FreeRepublic used to like him.
Now because he is/was against the Iraq invasion, every one calls him a Kook.
I will write him in.
We are being asked to vote for huck so we can have a brokered convention so Fred can be shoved down our throats?
I was just skipping through the 600 plus posts but I cant believe people here think they can do that and then force a man who clearly doesnt want to be President down everyones throats.
I would rather take my chances with Mitt.
Yep, just 3 months ago he got Wilkes endorsement-maybe it hasn’t sunk in yet. Combined with the endorsement of the author of the pro-life plank in the GOP platform and pro-life groups in MA, its make his conversion more believable. I welcome converts to our side.
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DUH
Dr Wilkes IS NRTL
Your tagline inspired mine
Do you like McCain? If you waste your hard won vote on Ron Paul, you will actually be helping McCain.
A vote for Ron Paul is meaningless since he is getting ready to run as an independent anyway.
Thanks for the ping.
Reason #8 would be that Governor Huckabee supports and campaigns for the FairTax.
Takes a lotta stones to talk about the FairTax to an obviously hostile press who do their utmost to distort the truth in an effort to convince the American public that his candidacy and the FairTax are “not doable.”
More’s the pity; both the FairTax and Governor Huckabee deserve better.
No, he deserved swiftboating. They all do.
Romney is a big government Republican who will usher in universal healthcare, government funded abortion, gay marriage and corporate welfare. The country will be bankrupted by his boondoggles, both morally and financially.
But it’s not his fault. The liberals will make him do it.
“In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.” —Ronald Reagan
In this case, I may be content with sitting back and watching which socialist RINO gets it. Frankly, I couldn’t care less which one gets the nod other than I hope the eventual candidate is at least pro-life. None of them can otherwise be trusted with important matters, such as defending our rights, our borders, our sovereignty, our liberty, our republic or our constitution.
“From time to time we’ve been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people. Well, if no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else?” —Ronald Reagan
RomneyCare, by the way, is a perfect example of the above Reagan sentiment.
You're still posting.
I do like what he stands for on the most part, but not for POTUS.
If it was not for Iraq voting, I would vote for him.
The last thing I want is to get into the middle of this argument, but this was posted to FR, a National Review article, hardly a liberal publication:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1957829/posts
“But honest discussions of Reagan’s record on the abortion issue admit that as California governor he signed into law a liberalization of abortion that led to an explosion of abortions in the nation’s largest state. Reagan critics and supporters alike recognize this fact — one that is particularly tough to swallow for staunch pro-lifers. The full story, however, is more complicated — and worth setting straight now, 35 years after Roe v. Wade.
On June 14, 1967, Ronald Reagan signed the Therapeutic Abortion Act, after only six months as California governor. From a total of 518 legal abortions in California in 1967, the number of abortions would soar to an annual average of 100,000 in the remaining years of Reagan’s two terms — more abortions than in any U.S. state prior to the advent of Roe v. Wade. Reagan’s signing of the abortion bill was an ironic beginning for a man often seen as the modern father of the pro-life movement
When the issue surfaced in the first months of his governorship, Reagan was unsure how to react. Surprising as it may seem today, in 1967 abortion was not the great public issue that it is today. Reagan later admitted that abortion had been “a subject I’d never given much thought to.” Moreover, his aides were divided on the question.”
Eagles gotta soar.
Isaiah 40:31
What I can’t understand is that for all of us who are trying to turn this country around, we don’t acknowledge or support someone who had a change of heart. Are we accepting conservative Christians, trying to accept converts to our side, or are we so hardened that we can’t accept someone who comes to our side.
The biggest problem I have had with Mitt was his political pandering, but never with his policies, his record or his conservatism. His record as Governor on abortion was ALWAYS on the side of life, Always, whither or not he campaigned that way.
http://www.freerepublic.com/~unmarkedpackage/#abortion
In fact, as a leader in his church, he got into lots of hot water with the press for his aggressive counseling of women NOT to get abortions.
For me, I would rather have a nominee who lied to the democrats and then governed as a conservative, then a nominee who lied to the republicans and will lead as a liberal!
There can be only one, and Mitt is all that is left. If we continue to push Huckabee then we elevate the true liberal to lead our party, and we may never recover.
You can rest assured, that if Mitt pulls this out, and wins the nomination, there is no way in Hades that he could ever go back and support abortion, not after all this. That should be clear to everyone. He would lose every bit of politcal capital he had left, and he simply isn't going to do that. So, for the sake of argument, even if Mitt was truly a baby killing liberal, like so many want to claim he is, the base would never tolerate such action from him after all this. Again, Mitt is all there is. It's time to stop McCain, not put our hopes in someone who has no chance.
The GOP Platform has expressed support for a constitutional amendment to restore protection of the right to life for unborn children since 1976.
You know, for you, I might just take the "I guess" out of my tag line.
Yup. That is pretty ironic.
But I could never see Reagan promoting abortion like this guy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_w9pquznG4
And this was years after the Reagan Revolution and the conservative pro-life movement started and caught on. There is absolutely no excuse for Romney betraying the pro-life movement other than greed and lust for political power.
Jesse (Louis) Jackson Biography (1941 - )
Civil rights activist, Baptist minister, and presidential candidate, born in Greenville, South Carolina, USA.
He trained for the ministry at Chicago Theological Seminary and, having joined the protest movement led by Martin Luther King Jr and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), he was named head of the Chicago branch of Operation Breadbasket (1965), becoming its national head in 1967.
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