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Huckabee, Perry and Romney look like they are running in 2016
American Thinker ^ | 07/15/2014 | Silvio Canto Jr.

Posted on 07/15/2014 6:45:17 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

At the start of the year, I told a friend to keep an eye on Mike Huckabee.  He just had the look of a man running for president.  After all, didn't Ronald Reagan write columns and do radio commentaries before running?

Last month, I was very happy to hear that Mitt Romney was considering another run.  Frankly, I think that he is one of the most qualified people ever denied the presidency.

Let me add another one - Governor Rick Perry of Texas.  We didn't see the real Perry in 2012 but we are seeing him now.

Over the last few weeks, Gov Perry has been at the forefront of the "kids on the border issue."   He represents people who are directly impacted by the chaos on the border. 

Over the weekend, Gov Perry moved beyond the border and wrote a column about President Obama's foreign policy.  It was strong.   He challenged isolationism and he is right:

"As a veteran, and as a governor who has supported Texas National Guard deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, I can understand the emotions behind isolationism.

Many people are tired of war, and the urge to pull back is a natural, human reaction.

Unfortunately, we live in a world where isolationist policies would only endanger our national security even further."

Gov Perry also took on Senator Rand Paul's view of the world.  He also aligned himself with President Reagan's foreign policy - the projection of strength and maintaining a strong defense.

Gov Perry also has his Texas' economic record to talk about.  Frankly, a lot of Americans may want to hear how Texas does it in 2016.


(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016; huckabee; rickperry; romney
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To: BuckeyeTexan

“Hate” my ass. People who attribute well-though objections to “hate” are kidding themselves.


81 posted on 07/15/2014 9:33:31 AM PDT by Finny (Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. -- Psalm 119:105)
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To: Kenny500c

Perry's Oop's moment. Should Perry be the nominee we will see this image and the video a lot.
82 posted on 07/15/2014 9:36:30 AM PDT by jpsb (Believe nothing until it has been officially denied)
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To: SeekAndFind
Last month, I was very happy to hear that Mitt Romney was considering another run. Frankly, I think that he is one of the most qualified people ever denied the presidency.

I agree. If he runs again, I'll bet he does an even better job of losing.

83 posted on 07/15/2014 9:56:22 AM PDT by Flick Lives ("I can't believe it's not Fascism!")
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To: SeekAndFind

"Bring out your Goldsteins!"

84 posted on 07/15/2014 9:59:50 AM PDT by Flick Lives ("I can't believe it's not Fascism!")
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To: carriage_hill
The Republic can survive a Barack 0bummer, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools, such as those who made him their president.”

As opposed to the multitude of fools supposedly on the other side, who made Romney their president? Who if he won would enact the same tyrannical agenda from homosexual marriage to global warming to nationalized health care to abortion to immigration to gun control?

Americans are smarter than that and it is why more and more of them are staying home on election day. Leftists are the minority in America; it is why they have to cheat, and they do. They even cheat in the Republican party, as we saw in Mississippi. For their candidates to get in office, they have to cheat because they are the minority.

Americans are smart enough to know that they're being deprived of an option at the ballot box. They are smart enough to know that a choice between a Democrat and a Romney or even a Perry is sadly laughable. (Sorry, Perry supporters, but show where Perry has shown real proclivity for core limited government in concept, as have Palin and Cruz; what role does Texas government have in the sex lives of public high school students? I know it seems like a single-issue thing, but a guy that thinks government has any role, let alone one that would push medical immunizations benefitting pharmaceuticals, is obviously missing a core concept of limited government) --

-- in any case, Americans are smarter than that. I remember Perot, I remember how excited his followers, whom I thought misguided at the time, were to vote for him. I voted for the Republican, dogged in the faith that the Republican would advocate for less government. "Read my lips."

Clinton won twice, though a majority opposed him both times, and he was steamrolled by the Republican Revolution and then impeached. A plurality win was good for conservatism, at least as good as if "Read my lips" or good ol' Dole had won.

I'm older and wiser and so are a whole helluva lotta legitimate, real Americans. Not the harvested, faked, dead, multiple, illegal, and ginned Democrat figments of imagination, but real Americans.

That's what I see, and I don't know if it's scary so much as it is .. . well, heartening. I do believe in America, and I do believe that at heart, we are "Do unto others as I would have them do unto me" kinds of folks prepared to lovingly illuminate the paths of intelligent, angry, but Freedom-loving American yutes brainwashed by government schools usurped by a liberal minority. We have all the ingredients in place. No cake walk, but nothing worthwhile is.

85 posted on 07/15/2014 10:04:34 AM PDT by Finny (Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. -- Psalm 119:105)
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To: Colonel_Flagg
Another Romney run would finish off what’s left of the Republican Party.

As Gary Cooper would say ... Yep.

86 posted on 07/15/2014 10:18:35 AM PDT by Finny (Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. -- Psalm 119:105)
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To: Finny

oh ya....and you wouldn’t notice any difference today, would you?


87 posted on 07/15/2014 12:29:24 PM PDT by G Larry (Which of Obama's policies do you think I'd support if he were white?)
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To: SeekAndFind

Huckabee is little more than a stalking horse for the establishment. Do not trust him nor waste your money or vote supporting him.


88 posted on 07/15/2014 1:34:17 PM PDT by Buckeye Battle Cry (Audentis Fortuna Iuvat)
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To: SeekAndFind

Re: Nixon and history. Yes, he got impeached.


89 posted on 07/15/2014 5:14:41 PM PDT by FlipWilson
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To: FlipWilson

Actually, Nixon resigned before the House formally voted to impeach.

However, my point was he lost two elections (one for president, one for governor ) prior to winning the next two and it took 6 years for him to recover from his previous loss.

It is however, arguable that he REALLY lost his election to JFK.There was massive fraud in that election and it all boiled down to Chicago ( yes, Obama’s home town ).


90 posted on 07/15/2014 5:23:17 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: G Larry

I will never vote for Cruz he seems insincere and cartoonish in a villain kind of way.


91 posted on 07/17/2014 12:04:01 PM PDT by rodeo-mamma
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To: rodeo-mamma

Ok, quit playing junior shrink and read his writings and listen to the depth of the positions he takes.

Tell me which of his positions you disagree with.


92 posted on 07/17/2014 2:10:46 PM PDT by G Larry (Which of Obama's policies do you think I'd support if he were white?)
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