Posted on 11/06/2008 12:37:10 PM PST by Yomin Postelnik
... ask a man on the street and more than likely he’ll give you another reason for anything that’s ever happened to America, the profound and analytical retort of “it’s all Bush’s fault.” The problem is that he means it. A bigger problem is that we let this happen.
Why is this? The question does not even need to be asked. The obvious answer is the lack of able PR coming from our side.
While President Bush has been, contrary to conventional opinion (opinion that will change within months of his departure from office), an able leader on defense and on many economic issues, he has never been allowed to communicate the true reasons for his decisions or to defend himself from over the top attacks. His handlers have been cautious, and cautiousness, while having a rightful and important place, does not carry the day.
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Not at all.
Here’s how I see it.
No one but Huckabee can stand up to Obama when he campaigns on “times are bad but look what I’ve done, I’m compassionate, I care about you. The Rep. doesn’t because.....(insert Obama lie after lie). Romney can’t stand up to that with believability and Palin can’t make as effective an argument. Huckabee can. His appeal isn’t only on social values. It’s also on sensible, conservative economic policy that really does benefit people. His platform is more believable (because it’s true and he can communicate it) than Obama’s reckless wealth redistribution platform.
I understand others disagree. I just look at his record and see it’s good (he is a fiscal and a social conservative) and have seen how he interacts with others. He would have been able to handle economic crisis best for our party.
I generally don’t care for Dick Morris, but he hit the nail in this piece. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/11/huckabee_is_a_fiscal_conservat.html
We don't need Huckabee up there preachin to the masses about how the Mormons think Jesus and the Devil are brothers!
If he wants to preach, he should go back to the pulpit or stay in show business.
Haven't we learned our lesson yet?!!
Very well said.
The Club for Growth stuff was mixed, but also impractical. The figures they show are less than the fee increases imposed by other conservative GOP governors at the time. They also go after him for preventing price gouging (as their mission is to oppose regulation), but after a disaster price gouging enforcement is routine. Gov. Jeb Bush did that all the time here. It’s necessary.
See also the Dick Morris (usually not my favorite, but he’s spot on this time) posted above this comment.
>>>Jindal - I’m not sold on him yet...the first time I saw him was last night, and he looked like a light weight to me. He talks pretty good, but then, so does obama.<<<
Yeah, and “talking pretty good” didn’t get Obama very far. :)
As for Rudy, I trust him. He is what he say he is (a fiscal and security Conservative but social RINO) But, unfortunately that means I trust him to do the wrong thing on life and the homosexual agenda. I respect him for not lying about his positions and pandering, but I would love to see him as AG, but not POTUS. I appreciate his party loyalty and strong support for the ticket though.
Agree on Romney, he is sort of plastic. Also, I don’t trust him on social issues. Was he lying to the Massachussets moonbats when he was governor, or to us in the primary. OK, he could have really changed his view on abortion, but his “cloning” story didn’t ring true to me.
I totally agree with you. Those who were trashing Huckabee were just reacting because the Republican establishment types who are tied to libertarian groups hated him.
PLEASE NO!!!
We do not need a rehash of this years losers. No more McCain, no more Romney, no more Huckabee, no more Guiliani...NO MORE RINOS!!
Romney governed as a liberal and while most concentrate on his switch on social views, he was not a strong fiscal conservative either. A Romney presidency would be poll based and I believe voters would catch on. He has little support in the MA GOP from any group. They voted for him in the primary, but the support was weak. He also comes across as insincere and packaged to independents. I’m not suggesting that he is, I’m saying he’s a tough sell in a general election.
But whoever’s the nominee, let’s rally for him. I just think we have a great opportunity, politically and as a nation with Huckabee.
So the apologists for the nanny stater, the Huckster, begin!
>He’s also the only one who can really connect with swing voters on the economy and other issues....<
I think Arkansas got a belly full of his brand of snake oil. Apparently he is still selling it, now on FAUX. :)
Mike Huchabee can better serve by running for the senate in 2010. He is a good man, but not the leader of a true conservative movement.
Please give it a rest on Hunter. I have great respect for him. He is a solid conservative and vital to any conservative resurgence, but he is not a leader. He never gained any traction in this national election and won’t in any other. He is a captain, not a general.
Over the next four years, the energy issue will continue to worsen as Obama pursue’s a green energy plan that simply increases the cost of energy in an attempt to reduce energy needs rather than increase available energy and make it cheaper.
Palin is uniquely situated to exploit that issue. She also doesn’t even need to address social conservative issues, because Trig is her street cred.
Huckabee simply doesn’t have the Q factor that Palin does. Plus his gubenatorial pardon record is questionable, nasty rumors about one of his boys hurting animals and they are not telegenic. He was a non-starter in ‘08 and nothing is going to change that between now and ‘12
The Arkansas Senate seat is up in 2010. Huckabee could take it from the current Democrat.
(sarc)That's a winning strategy...(/sarc)
Support whichever RINO you like. If you think Hunter isn’t a leader, then you have no idea what he has accomplished, damn near singlehandedly in many cases.
Very well said. It’s surprising too. He’s the only one who came out for the “fair tax.” The reason so many are against him is the drumming he took from commentators. But they may even be tied to not only to libertarian groups, as you mentioned. It could even be that some did so because they wanted to keep the IRS, not just restrict it to business. The amount of trashing he took and the distortion of his record was insane. Dick Morris, who I’m hardly a fan of, put it best in the link I posted around post 85. Here it is to make it easy: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/11/huckabee_is_a_fiscal_conservat.html
It wouldn’t be unheard of for a former governor to become a senator. I believe at least one former president did it.
I can't think of any reason I would want to vote for Huckabee, not did I think he showed much class during his primary run.
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