Posted on 11/17/2008 12:28:36 PM PST by Chet 99
November 17, 2008
Categories: Huckabee
Huck unloads on Mitt; Romney camp hits back
Mike Huckabee is using his new book, out this week, to settle a few scores, not the least of which is with his fierce primary rival, Mitt Romney.
Per Michael Scherer, Huckabee picks up where he left off earlier this year, tweaking Romney as a rich guy and firing what may be the first shots of the 2012 primary.
Romney, Huckabee, writes, was "anything but conservative until he changed the light bulbs in his chandelier in time to run for president.”
At another point, Huckabee portrays a Romney proposal to encourage more investment in the market as, "Let them eat stocks!”
The former Arkansas governor also takes a shot at Fred Thompson – who ensured his defeat in the pivotal South Carolina primary – as well as those evangelical leaders who didn’t get behind his bid.
But none of these people may emerge again in four years as political rivals of Huckabee.
Asked to respond, Romney spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom said Huckabee was acting small.
“This type of pettiness is beneath Mike Huckabee,” Fehrnstrom. “If we’re going to move the party forward, we need to offer more than personal recriminations. Unfortunately, in this book, Mike Huckabee is consumed with presumed slights, and he seems more interested in settling scores than in bringing people together.”
Really, you have talked to all of them? I bet all Black people are lazy too, huh?
“Yeah, but Mormons are not real Christians don’t you know. Sarcasm off”
“All Christian churches agree with that, and they are not being sarcastic.”
Here we go again, eating our own. Folks, there are real enemies in this country determined to divide and marginalize all faithful Catholics, Mormons, Protestants, Jews—faithful people who understand/revere the Constitution and the founding principles of our great nation.
The daily “religion” fights get really old. Try directing your wrath on the real enemies of this country: godless secular humanists/socialists.
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How about just being a Christian, instead of having a church speak for you?
Romney would have made mincemeat over Obama’s tax plan and that is what we needed. Huckabee screwed it up for Romney and he was McCain’s stalking horse.
During the primary, the economy was not the issue. When Paulson came out with his scare tactics, it would have been nice to have someone like Romney who had a clue. McCain was on tape saying, “I don’t know that much about the economy.” BO has never had a real job in his life and Sarah, bless her heart, was not able to explain articulately what was going on.
Romney would have been reassuring to the markets and to many of the industrial states.
Most of his bashing of Romney centers around his wealth. We have Pres. Elect Obama a spread the wealth socialist taking office and all Huck can do now is go after Romney for his belief in Capitalism. Huck has always been a spread the wealth populist and like liberals is just showing his jealousy about it.
Thompson and Romney were the most Conservative of the group. Huck was one of the worse. You side with Huck because you don't like the LDS church. It is a very reason and we end up with another RINO in Huck. RINOs are extinct in this party. So is your narrow thinking.
As a Romney suporter who bashed Huck plenty over the last year and a half I would take a President Elect Huck any day of the week right now as well. I'd take any of them right now, President elect Paul, Tancredo, Tommy etc.
I'd put it a different way. He's a social conservative, but a liberal on core conservative issues of individual liberty & freedom and limited government (i.e. socialist tendencies). Unfortunately, without limited government and individual liberty as [for now] guaranteed in the Bill of Rights, social policy is irrelevant. These separate "wings" of "conservatism" are often at odds with one another, and one of the reasons why the Repub party is where it's at today. We need to focus first & foremost on someone who is a limited government, individual liberty conservative, and put the secondary emphasis on social policy, or we're doomed for a perpetual split, continued liberal domination, and loss of both.
You are on the mark on this one. Romney was the best primary candidate we had and did what he could during the general campaign to help the McCain / Palin ticket even when McCain’s antipathy toward Mitt was very obvious.
When McCain made the gaffe during the 2nd debate about who he would pick as Treasury secretary and he suggested naming Obama’s beloved advisor Warren Buffet, and then came out of left field with Hillary’s plan to buy back and renegotiate the bad mortgages, Mitt still tried to make sense of it and stood hard to defend McCain and stop Obama.
Huckleberry is petty and unelectable. Romney worked within the constraints of being Gov. of Massachusetts - not a pretty scene, but he did make some progress on taxes and spending. He is an authority on the economy and McCain really disrespected him, to McCain’s own detriment.
POST #5 LOLOLOLOLOL
Who in hell decided those shirts were a good idea? Did some Hollywood casting agent find the creepiest kids around for the photo? Oh, there Huck’s kids? Yikes. He’d lose all 50 states.
Really, you have talked to all of them?
I did research them looking for the their answer on that question and each one of them refuses to recognize that religion as being Christian, don’t kill the messenger when it appears that you haven’t researched it.
Fehrnstrom got it right.
Huckabee is his own problem; he isn’t any more conservative than Romney. they both should engage in some actions, rather than words. The first thing they need to do is get behind Sarah Palin in a big conspicuous way.
Sad, but true.
Its because of guys like Huck that we have what we have right now.
None of the primary candidates. - But Sarah is too good to let slip from our grip; she is our best hope for the future; twice as good as Jindal, and 100 times better than the rest.
You have got to be a lib with rhetoric like that. All conservative credential claims you make aside your conspiracy theories make liberals afflicted with BDS halfway sane.
Still posting the old lies. Novak's source for the Fred rumor turned out to be Mike Murphy a former McCain aide not a Romney staffer. The anti-Palin source turned out to be Nicolle Wallace who worked for Bush and CBS not a Romney staffer. Kevin Madden works for a private firm in DC now. He worked for Tom Delay and Bush as well and hasn't been associated with Romney since he dropped out at his CPAC speech. Your insinuation is much like the liberals claim that VP Cheney was still in control of Haliburton.
As for Sarah Palin she can handle herself just fine without you trying to post lies on her behalf. The fact that you continue to post lies about the anti-Palin comments shows how little faith you have in her as a candidate. I hope she runs in 2012 and she is strong enough to handle a few MSM generated rumors without you continuing to post the false rumors. She was the only reason I voted for McCain. I voted for Romney in the primary. Depending on how the economy looks in a few years I wouldn't mind him running as well. They both contribute to the party.
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