Huckabee to receive major foreign policy endorsement on Friday?
posted at 8:19 pm on December 12, 2007 by Allahpundit
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Fresh off his debate win — yes, win, according to ABC — Huck is allegedly heard whispering about big news coming down the pike on Friday in New Hampshire. Any guesses? James Baker, as a former SoS, would qualify as major although he seems a bit too inclined towards realpolitik for Huck’s “do unto others” brand of foreign policy. Huck did “strongly support” Baker’s Iraq recommendations last year on Imus, though.
It can’t be Baker. Think conservative, internationally oriented, and possibly religious. Who?
Update: Born in New Hampshire, praised for his foreign-policy prescience, and religiously diverse! Whaddaya think?
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I’m like Mr. Reagan MB4, I trust, but I verify. But you can trust that you amuse me greatly. I get much of your seriousness and of your lighter side, and the annoyance isn’t grating on me like it is on others. Plus you keep me refreshed with my adorable Mark Twain. We need one for our crazy times.
When I feel the need to fight you, you’re game. One thing for sure, you don’t get mad, you fight back, and I’ve seen you be very gentlemanly. I’ve also seen the other side, but no one’s perfect.
Without you the board w/b boring actually. You’re not a troll, that much I trust. But the actual trolls have disappeared and, were it not for arguing over the conservative candidates, it w/b boring to always agree with the gaggle.
Entelechy on December 12, 2007 at 10:25 PM
S/b “into churches ot save on taxes”
Entelechy on December 12, 2007 at 10:28 PM
Where us Limerick to correct my spelling? “to save on taxes”
Entelechy on December 12, 2007 at 10:38 PM
Jiangxi Dad,
Second one looks very interesting
ColdBore76 on December 12, 2007 at 10:38 PM
President James Monroe, Captain Mahan, and General George S. Patton could endorse the good Governor…..and I still wouldn’t vote for him.
Powell….I think he will be Hillarys VP (believe it or not)
Baker…..Good. Wrap some of that 9/11 Report panel around Huck’s neck. Reach across the aisle and cook some S’mores.
Praise be!
Limerick on December 12, 2007 at 10:41 PM
JiangxiDad, I was just checking out the write-up on those books too. Because what happened in the first one is pretty known, I’m also more intrigued by the 2nd one. As a general rule I read non-fiction, stick to universal literature, and history. Lately I read lots of HA, which cuts into the reading time. Must invent how to do both :)
Entelechy on December 12, 2007 at 10:43 PM
All of that annoyance was directed at HighHopes for impugning our motives without bothering to look through the archives first.
Bryan on December 12, 2007 at 10:43 PM
Jimmy Carter?
JellyToast on December 12, 2007 at 10:44 PM
Unfortunately she won’t be the nominee.
Entelechy on December 12, 2007 at 10:45 PM
I can see that happening.
Spirit of 1776 on December 12, 2007 at 10:48 PM
I want to believe….but I’m not convinced yet.
The Machine isn’t out of gas yet.
Limerick on December 12, 2007 at 10:49 PM
Then Powell w/b the fake of a lifetime, either the first, or the last part of it. I don’t know which, and, until he does that, he deserves to be left alone.
Limerick, I want her to win the nomination. She’s much easier to beat in the general because she’s such a known. Though not with Mr. Huckabee.
Entelechy on December 12, 2007 at 10:55 PM
JianxiDad,
I have the Patrick Leigh Fermor book in my library but have never read it. It belonged to my father. It’s on my list now - thanks, it sounds mahvelous!
Buy Danish on December 12, 2007 at 11:06 PM
Powell is the ultimate trump card for any Dem candidate. He would provide instant street cred. The hero of Gulf I, quit the GW admin, pro-choice, ribbons covering one entire pectoral. He would be the Midas touch to any Dem. Would he? I’d say it’s a 50/50 chance.
Huckabee…..the biggest issue I have with him is the pardon/parole mess. If he has that much compassion for criminals then I truly wonder if he has the capacity to order a squadron of B-2s to obliterate a city.
Limerick on December 12, 2007 at 11:07 PM
Oh really? Not posting when Rudy makes news not in a good way. Yeah, no bias there. What do they call that….
R D on December 12, 2007 at 11:41 PM
Whomever becomes CIC should have Debbie Schlussel as a chief foreign policy advisor.
Debbie Schlussel: Bush’s “Democratic” Extremist Iraq: Policewomen Ordered to Turn in Guns, Sent to Desk Duty
By Debbie Schlussel
After American spent gazillions of your tax dollars in training Iraqi women to use guns and patrol the streets as police officers, the extremist Shi’ite government of Iraq decided to make that spending yet another complete waste.
Last month, the Iraqi government–you know the one that Bush claimed, in his silly, fatal democracy experiment, would treat women with respect and restore human rights–ordered all women serving in its police forces to turn over their guns for redistribution to men and reassigned all of these women to desk duty. Hmmm . . . so why did we waste all of this money training them to shoot and patrol streets? Judging from the picture in the news story, I’m not so sure this is the kind of police force–in the full ninja Islamic chick outfit–that we had in mind. But still, this is yet more proof that giving the Iraq sector of Greater Barbaria “democracy” was yet another exercise in HAMASHezbollahMuslimBrotherhoodKhomeiniSadr idiocy.
Anyway, I’ve been repeatedly screaming that handing democracy to the religion of headchoppers simply will never work in our favor. It will only solidify extremism.
And this is yet more proof. But no surprise.
Did I support going into Iraq? Yes. Did I support staying there and giving them “democracy”? Hell, no. I supported getting in, removing Saddam, turning over the country to a Shah-esque, pro-U.S. dictator and getting out. Had we done that, Bush would be a hero. Barbarians cannot handle democracy. It only hurts America when they get it.
But instead of facing this fact, Bush–as we know–is into this whole “Islam is peace” and needs democracy BS. And that’s why we have stories like this.
MB4 on December 13, 2007 at 1:52 AM
Bryan, I took you up on that, and carefully read thru the archives starting with September. I could only find two articles that were specifically negative toward Romney.
I’m not saying Romney isn’t a good candidate and wouldn’t make a decent - if hardly stellar - president; but it is disingenuous to say you’re not pushing Romney as Hot Air’s candidate-of-choice.
psrch on December 13, 2007 at 7:53 AM
You can pen in James Baker and Tim LaHaye in the Huckabee camp. There is no doubt about it. I can guarantee you that unless Huckabee makes a huge blunder, Baker and Lahaye have already endorsed Huckabee and are just playing nicey nice with all the candidates.
Lahaye has already organized assemblies of Baptist pastors to raise money and support Huckabee from the pulpit.
I doubt it’s Colin Powell. He’s not a Democrat. Powell is a Republican. The GOP tried to get him to run for President in 1996 against Clinton.
gabriel sutherland on December 13, 2007 at 9:27 AM
Just rub a little Vagisil on it, you’ll be all right.
ReubenJCogburn on December 13, 2007 at 1:35 PM
I gotta admit it Rooster, that’s pretty funny.
R D on December 13, 2007 at 2:22 PM
Well, the fact that you can still laugh about it is a very good thing. And naturally I’m an ass for saying that, but that pretty much goes without saying. You were just sounding (granted, it can be hard to tell over the Internet) awfully wound up there. I used to carry a little tube of Vagisil in one of the pockets of my LBV, and if we were out in the field and one of the new guys got a little wound up, I’d hand it to him and say, “Here, rub a little of this on it.” And he’d look down at it, get a little embarrassed, and then we’d all laugh and take it down a notch.
Bryan didn’t say that they didn’t cover the negative stuff on Rudy–he was just saying (I think) that Rudy’s barely been a factor in the race lately, and where he’s gotten attention at all it was negative attention, which made him even less of a factor. The last real impact I can think of Rudy making in the news was the Judy/police escort story, and they definitely did stories on that here at Hot Air–I remember the picture of Rudy smacking his forehead looking disgusted on the main page, and it was also covered in the Headlines too. Since then Rudy’s pretty much dropped down into the pack and doesn’t seem to be doing much.
I think Bryan and Allah are already sick to death of covering Huckabee, but when major news outlets keep cranking out news stories about him, they feel an obligation to cover them. And I think Huck’s situation is a little bit unique, because there are at least three big factors that I can see in play: his sudden rise out of nowhere to frontrunner status, the fact that the thought of him getting the nomination scares the living hell out of a lot of conservatives (me included), and the media’s obvious effort to promote him because he’s not very conservative and they know he’ll get killed in the general. The enemy likes him (which is never a good sign for us), so they’re pushing him, while our side is pushing back in an effort to slow his momentum. When you add all of that to the fact that the frontrunner naturally gets way more attention, I think it makes more sense that he’s all over the main page.
ReubenJCogburn on December 13, 2007 at 3:55 PM
No, not wound up, but it is hard to tell. Just putting my .02 in there.
I’m gonna remember that Vagisil trick though.
R D on December 13, 2007 at 4:39 PM
Well, I apologize for misreading you, then.
ReubenJCogburn on December 13, 2007 at 4:59 PM
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