Posted on 02/22/2008 4:42:09 AM PST by torchthemummy
In an interview with 1200 WOAI news during his swing through Texas, longshot Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee outlined a strategy which has him not winning the GOP nomination outright, but pushing the nomination to the September Republican National Convention, which he says will turn to him as the most ‘conservative alternative.’
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The Huckster must be smoking those “funny” cigarettes. What a Dolt. He’s a dead man walking and hasen’t got the brains to realize it. Good for a small laugh, at most.
I think he is making money by fund raising and that is the real reason he stays in. He can keep all that money. I wouldn’t give him 10 cents.
Every day as this big leg of the liberal stool works to move the country further to the left, ignorant people just stay in denial.
The biggest of our enemies (that small pack of loud phonies on Free Republic) pretend to be for small government, but hypocritically worship the biggest brother of them all, the Big Government Public School indoctrination camp.
That a bit different than I said. I said that CONSERVATIVES will not just drop everything and vote for Huckster. Twenty-Five percent may that is true. I am NOT a fan of McCain especially since he went on the Global Warming bandwagon, but Huckster is not a great ulternative IMHO.
We would be significantly worse off with Huckabee.
Even with a deadlocked convention Huckabee would not be the nominee.
As a long time resident of Western Pennsylvania, I resent the profound accuracy of that statement!
The GOP as a whole would be much WORST off with Hucklebee.
He might be able to carry a few southern states, but the GOP would get literally trounced out west, the northeast, the mid-Atlantic, the mid-west, and elsewhere as moderate Repubs, secular Repubs, Jewish Repubs, and just plain ol' Repubs would flee in droves.
I would thoroughly enjoy joining a church where Huckabee was the pastor, but would never support him as President.
In fact, the more Obama and Hillary fight and self-destruct the Democrats, the more I see McCain winning in November... (depending on whom he selects for VP.)
The Hillary sychophants will be sooooo ticked at Obama's 'stealing' the nomination, about half will vote for McCain.
Many Hillary supporters openly say they will vote for McCain rather than Obama ... which of course proves what Republicans have known for years ... that the Dems are the real anti-minority crowd in America.
huckster wont be the nominee but he will destroy the voice of the Right to Life/social conservative groups.
It’s what I told my youngest this morning. He said what do you think about Obama. I said he’s got two problems. One is he’s going to be under pressure to be beholden to a group of people based upon a quality considered offensive if taken in the reverse. He’s going to be forced to practice exclusionary politics. The second problem is where we are in history. With our precariously integrated economic system in place and all that’s wrong in the world, we are at great risk of a calamatious event changing our lives forever. Obama strikes me as a (young and inexperienced)Lincolnesque character. Put on a beard and stovepipe hat and he’s as physically exaggerated and passionately articulate character as Lincoln. And we all know the times Lincoln presided over.
McCain looks hopelessly overmatched. Like Rush says, he sucked up to the scorpion. He should have told the media to sit down and shut up like Reagan would have. It’s too late now.
Oddly enough Hillary and Bill Clinton almost seem like a known quantity and therefore less risky in comparison.
Of course Reagan had the popular support, force of personality and character to be able to pull it off. He was a leader.
He's pimping for his book, paid speeches, tv appearances, and if there's time left over, a REAL job.
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I grew up in Selinsgrove. I remember the king pin Milton Jerrold Shapp. I use to caddy for Gus Gennitti of Hazelton. I am almost sure which strip mine Hoffa was thrown in.
I would have condensed all that and said Obama is strange, foolish, and cultish.
I suggest you never compare Lincoln to Obama again. There is NO comparison.
The Huckster is no more Conservative than McCain.
What did someone say about ministering. It’s for businessmen who don’t like to work hard. It’s was a smart alec disrespectful remark, but well noted :).
Huckabee got into this race and is staying in this race for ONE reason.
To stop Mitt Romney, whom he despises with all the fiber in his being.
Yes, Romney has withdrawn, but Hucklebee will never withdraw until he gets more delegates than Romney.... so Hucklebee can "proclaim" himself the more viable VP candidate.
Although I am as committed a Christian as most anyone, Hucklebee crosses the 'good faith' line in the Establishment clause in that he hates Mormons.
Also, Hucklebee would push his Baptist faith so deep into his campaign and White HOuse that those not so inclined would go running for the hills.
Never Huckabee (and I'm a proud Baptist).
So would Utah go for the Huckster?
Lincoln was defined under fire. He was a nobody Senator from Illinois before all hell broke loose. Hmm, nobody Senator from Illinois with big ears and a goofy continence? Hmm.
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