Wednesday, December 05, 2007
Posted by:
Kevin McCullough
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1:30 PM
Remember how surprised all the experts were when people rallied against the Amnesty program that the experts thought would finally pass? Well, get ready for another surprise.
Mike Huckabee IS the real deal. |
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Looks like Huck's rise mirrors Rudy's fall. How is he pulling away Giuliani's support?
What's the difference. Well, he's pro-life, unlike Giuliani. But he's also an Amnesty guy, like Giuliani.
So maybe he's pulling the pro-life Amnesty supports away from Rudy.
Huck is the new Amnesty candidate. |
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in the way of ANY amnesty president.
There is a line that republicans can no longer cross and Huckabee should be smart enough to see that.
I would vote for Huckabee over Mitt or Giuliani in a heartbeat. Though I believe Hunter and Paul are the better candidates. |
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I am excited. I heard this morning on Fox News that there are rumors surfacing that James Dobson is going to endorse him. I heard those rumors awhile back and Dobson denied them, but I wonder if he has had a change of heart. If that happens, it will be a great postive jolt for Huckabee's campaign. The only thing that concerns me is the "Willie Horton" problem that Huckabee seems to have. That keeps nagging at me some. I would like to know the whole truth there. Still, in my opinion, Huckabee is the best of the GOP bunch. I plan to vote for him in the primary in my state. |
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Supporters of Huckabee simply do not understand what the true essence of conservatism is.
Conservatism was always about CAPITALISM more than it was about Christianity. Of course, religion helped conservatives place their philosophy squarely on a moral base. But the heart of that philosophy was economic freedom, not Christian evangelism.
Huckabee does not believe in free trade among nations. As governor he raised taxes as often as he cut them. Now he's off on some crusade to ban smoking and lecture Americans about losing weight, proving he's no conservative when it comes to government regulation either.
This is not a conservative track record, but a fairly moderate one. Where it counts--the economy--Huckabee may even be to the left of Bill Clinton, who aggressively pushed Congress to approve NAFTA.
I'm now convinced that Christian evangelicals would even vote for a moderate Democrat if that Democrat were pro-life. (And there actually are some pro-life "Blue Dog" Democrats.) Which means that Christian evangelicals were never sold on conservatism, but used it and the GOP to advance their own agenda. Which is now displacing the traditional Republican agenda.
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Perhaps this IS a two man race. Except that it's between Huckabee and Guiliani. The vacuum that was waiting to be filled by a true blue conservative appeared originally to have been reserved for Fred Thompson, but Huckabee appears to have wrested it from Thompson while Fred was relaxing. Romney? Well if he loses Iowa (it looks like he will), I don't see how this thing is going to play out in his favor. Maybe he has an alternate plan to the early state sweep strategy, but I haven't heard what it is. |
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you are just spooked and soured because a true conservative has seemingly toppled the ultra radical liberal Rudy from the perch. Huck may or may not be as conservative as we want but rest assured that Rudy is not conservative at all. Finally more Americans are seeing Rudy as who he is: a lying, cheating, tax and spend, anti-life, anti-liberty charlatan who betrayed his family, his city, and will do so with his country too. |
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As a conservative, I simply can't vote for another George Bush. Huckabee is Bush 2.0. He is not economically conservative and I can't vote for that again. If he gets the nomination, Republicans will lose the election. The conservative base will be turned off by him and the moderates will be scared off by the abortion and religion rhetoric the left will heap on him. |
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