What if McCain named Fred as his VP?
posted at 4:03 pm on January 21, 2008 by Allahpundit
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A follow-up to Bryan’s post yesterday. Note well the results of Ruffini’s poll: Fred’s continued presence in the race is killing Romney, especially in Florida where he’s got double digits banked but probably won’t do better than fourth or fifth. If Huckabee was still a threat to win it’d be worth having Thompson around to take votes from him too, but he isn’t so it isn’t. All Huck is now is a stalking horse for McCain, lingering on to bleed social con votes from Mitt; if Fred stays in he’s playing the same part, a ball and chain on Romney’s other ankle in the first primary where Maverick can’t rely on Democrats and independents to push him through. Some Fredheads are fantasizing about him trudging along in hopes of a brokered convention, where he’d end up being the compromise candidate. So a guy who not only couldn’t win a primary but couldn’t do better than third place and the mid-teens even in the south is going to be The Man in November? Sounds like a plan.
The Politico piece linked above speculates that McCain may promise the VP slot to Huckabee to stay in but he’s got enough problems with conservatives that he can’t afford another “centrist” on the ticket. So … how about Fred? I hear that Rich Galen, one of Fred’s advisors, was pitching the idea on Fox News radio this a.m. He’d give McCain instant credibility with the base, especially on immigration, and the Fredheads would thrill to the possibility of McCain retiring after one term, leaving their guy the presumptive nominee in 2012. Problems: (1) Fred said months ago, if I recall correctly, that he didn’t want to be anyone’s VP; (2) McCain may not want a guy on the ticket whose candidacy disappointed so many; (3) given Fred’s reputation as the Republican Mycroft Holmes, you’re guaranteed another eight months of “lazy campaigner” memes from the media.
Let’s see if this is worth Maverick’s while. Vote on it below. Obviously this is based on the assumption that McCain’s going to emerge from Florida as the “moderate” alternative to Mitt. If Rudy beats him there, it’s a three-man race. Interestingly, if Rudy doesn’t beat him there, he’ll probably stagger on to Super Tuesday anyway just because New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut are in play. (Or is it too late?) And if so, to the extent that he’d be pulling moderates from McCain, he’d be a stalking horse himself — for Mitt Romney.
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Meant to add that, yes, it left McCain breathing, but I hope Florida will know better.
Entelechy on January 21, 2008 at 4:44 PM
Chaiman Wow!
Baraka on January 21, 2008 at 4:44 PM
How do you say “Shari’a” in Arkansan?
emailnuevo on January 21, 2008 at 4:44 PM
“Hope”
Igor R. on January 21, 2008 at 4:45 PM
Yeah yeah., outlawing abortion and banning gay marriage is really sharia law isn’t it.
You’re brilliant.
HaraldHardrada on January 21, 2008 at 4:46 PM
That is the most absurd exercise in self-defeating logic that I’ve seen in a while.
SWLiP on January 21, 2008 at 4:46 PM
And, as a trip to the fantasyland that CDS mentioned:
Thompson/Hunter ‘08
John Bolton as Secretary of State
Gen. Petraeus as Sec. Defense
Robert Bork as AG
Ann Coulter as Press Secretary
If that was the announced ticket, we’d win big: every liberal’s head would explode ala ‘Mars Attacks’ at the mere mention of the slate.
michaelo on January 21, 2008 at 4:47 PM
Making Fred the candidate to “settle” for.
csdeven on January 21, 2008 at 4:47 PM
They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
well, what would Ben think about voting for our choices just to keep an opposing (which is not so opposing in reality) force from power ?
im writing Fred in, even if he doesnt make it to the show.
palefaced on January 21, 2008 at 4:48 PM
I used to think the same way and was ready & willing to vote anybody but Shrillary, however, the more I think about it, the more I realize that that is exactly why we are in the shape we’re in now!Settling for the “lesser of 2 evils”. McCain is a dem in republican’s clothing.I’m thinking now, since the conservative base cannot vote for a conservative candidate, we get what we asked for. Maybe, (and I say this with great sadness)4 years of the dima-witts running our country into the ground, will bring the conservative base together so that we insist on a true conservative in 2012.
kcd on January 21, 2008 at 4:48 PM
I voted that I wouldn’t vote for McCain regardless of his VP choice, however I think I might vote for McCain before I’d vote for Romney, which basically translates that I’m not going to vote for either one of them in the primary, for starters. I like what Romney has to say about certain issues but I don’t give a lot of weight to promises made by pandering politicians who’s rhetoric doesn’t match their record, and there are a lot of things that Romney supports that I vehemently disagree with.
I can’t stand McCain’s open-borders/amnesty stance, and I don’t believe his pack of lies about securing the borders first any more than I believe Romney’s, but I do think that McCain is more supportive of 2nd amendment rights and he does have more foreign policy experience than Mitt, even though McCain is weak on national security.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying I like McCain more than Mitt, I’m saying I don’t like either one of them and that they are both bad candidates. Mitt might be my second choice behind Fred, but he is so far behind that I’m not seriously considering him. There is just too much ground between us.
FloatingRock on January 21, 2008 at 4:48 PM
Excellent! I like your thoughtful critique of my position.
Igor R. on January 21, 2008 at 4:48 PM
Dare I ask who your candidate is?
**News report** Conservative favorite Duncan Hunter just praised McCain and Huck and complained about ‘Mitt’s company, Bain Capital’ for a deal it’s making with China, but Mitt has not worked there since 1998.
Oh well. Hope springs eternal that someone somewhere will get something right eventually.
Buy Danish on January 21, 2008 at 4:48 PM
No, proclaiming that we have to get the constitution in line with God’s morality (which, by the way, he didn’t make any effort to do in his home state, when he had the chance) is like shari’a.
You’re preying on the people who want to have a Christian leader and lying to them about how “great” your candidate is.
By the way, if I want to smoke, don’t tell me God told me not to.
emailnuevo on January 21, 2008 at 4:48 PM
That is such nonsense.
There is no point to voting for someone you don’t believe in simply because they claim to be affiliated with your political party. I will not be voting for McCain, Huckabee or Romney should they be nominated as the GOP presidential candidate. I’ll either be writing in Fred! or voting for Obama.
As I’ve written here before, I’d rather blame four years of liberal governing on the Democrats than on a liberal Republican. If you can’t understand that concept then there’s simply no hope for you.
HebrewToYou on January 21, 2008 at 4:50 PM
If we could assure that McCain would be dead before the first full day of business with the new administration… then I vote McCain/Thompson.
But, McCain ANYTHING will not get my vote otherwise! And since we do not wish our presidents dead…. then I sit it out.
Warner Todd Huston on January 21, 2008 at 4:50 PM
And in the same breath he considers HuckaGibot and McShamnesty viable.
Hunter just destroyed any credibility he used to have. Which wasn’t much considering his failed campaign.
csdeven on January 21, 2008 at 4:50 PM
Exactly! Better that the populace that can’t distinguish cause and effect concludes that the Dems are incompetent than the Republicans are incompetent.
Igor R. on January 21, 2008 at 4:51 PM
Said it before myself, but I’ll second you!
Entelechy on January 21, 2008 at 4:51 PM
emailnuevo on January 21, 2008 at 4:48 PM
Actually you’re wrong about that.
“I first became politically active when I helped pass Arkansas’ Unborn Child Amendment, which requires the state to do whatever it can to protect life.
As Governor, I used that Amendment to pass pro-life legislation. The many pro-life laws I got through my Democrat legislature are the accomplishments that give me the most pride and personal satisfaction. I banned partial birth abortion, I required parental notification, I required that a woman give informed consent before having an abortion, I required that a woman be told her baby will experience pain and be given the option of anesthesia for her baby, I allowed a woman to have her baby and leave the child safely at a hospital, and I made it a crime for an unborn child to be injured or murdered during an attack on his mother”.
Mike Huckabee
HaraldHardrada on January 21, 2008 at 4:52 PM
That Lincoln guy went in the convention third didn’t he?
Theworldisnotenough on January 21, 2008 at 4:52 PM
MB4 on January 21, 2008 at 4:52 PM
Wow – the leader is no McCain, no way. The GOP has actually turned suicidal. Congrats, dopes. Hope the New 21st Century America doesn’t convict you of thoughtcrimes.
Hannibal Smith on January 21, 2008 at 4:53 PM
Well Fred is/was, but Mitt is acceptable to me, although barely. Certainly better than either Huck or McCain. I never liked Hunter because he only understands and gives weight to a couple of issues, so he is capable of endorsing someone just based on their China policy.
Igor R. on January 21, 2008 at 4:53 PM
Then there’d be two old men heading the country. Well, it might make for good odds if anyone wanted to bet on who’ll go first.
jeanie on January 21, 2008 at 4:54 PM
To put it as simply as I can….
I wash my hands of Mike Huckabee. I’ve voting for Pilot.
Limerick on January 21, 2008 at 4:54 PM
Ugh McCain. I think maybe with Fred as a Vp I might be more inclined to hold my nose and vote for him.
But ugh.
Karl on January 21, 2008 at 4:54 PM
And it would seem to me that you have been going through the motions following the republican campaign season and lapping up the MSM reports about Fred!
Mallard T. Drake on January 21, 2008 at 4:54 PM
Remind us of our predictions…now you did it again…
right2bright on January 21, 2008 at 4:55 PM
I think people understand the concept, but they may also understand that it’s predicated on another concept: that the damage wrought by 4-8 years of Pantsuit Mao or Black Hugo is recoverable. Personally, I don’t think it will be, and I’m not willing to risk it.
Hannibal Smith on January 21, 2008 at 4:55 PM
At this point in the race Fred is more an obstacle that guarantees we get a liberal democrat or a liberal republican for president. It is time for Fred to move out of the way, and hopefully we can still prevent liberals from gaining the presidency.
paulsur on January 21, 2008 at 4:56 PM
Do you believe the nonsense you write even a little bit? Do you not comprehend what a laughingstock you’ve become? How much of a buffoon you look like with your mindless Huckster worship and absurdly implausible predictions?
Huck will not pick McCain to be VP because he won’t have the chance to pick anyone as VP. He will not get the nomination- his chances are exactly 0.00%. Every serious observer knows that by now.
If you have something remotely intelligent or interesting to say- say it. From what I can tell, however, it would be a first for you. Otherwise, you might just be better off not polluting these threads with your asinine comments.
In the meantime, perhaps you should consider why nearly everyone on hotair.com- and most other right wing blogs- opposes Huckabee, and whether perhaps they’ve come to that position for a reason.
Hollowpoint on January 21, 2008 at 4:56 PM
That’s the kind of rhetoric that has a chance of attracting at most 5% of the electorate, on a good day. It’s also the kind of foolishness that incessant amnesty-baiting on the part of commenters, moderators, and site sponsors has attracted.
It doesn’t really matter who started it, but, even if it’s entirely the fault of McCain and associates that opposition to “Shamnesty” was painted as being driven by bigots and nativists, playing the role of nativist bigot or apocalyptic fanatic doesn’t improve your case or even remotely increase the likelihood that a reasonably humane and effective policy is put in place. Such people have become the right-side reflection of far-left “peace” protesters, incessantly attacking their opponents in the most extreme terms, throwing fits when they don’t get their way, then demonstrating their effective insanity with more of the same.
I don’t know if Igor R is a lefty troll who gets a kick out of making Republicans look like a loose alliance of ignorant troglodytes, or honestly believes what he or she is posting, but the effect is the same.
(Please don’t bother with the “relatives killed by Hitler card.” There’s a good half of my family tree missing because of Hitler, too. That anyone would insist on keeping him in this discussion, based no doubt on some ludicrous “study” fully worthy of Third Reich crackpot, is contemptible.)
CK MacLeod on January 21, 2008 at 4:57 PM
so what makes you think wed get over a rino in office ? wed really open the doors for a socialist in ‘12-’16, hell, wed be half way there.
palefaced on January 21, 2008 at 4:58 PM
Once more – let’s review the definition of “amnesty”.
Amnesty is forgiveness for past misdeeds, not permission to keep breaking the law. Amnesty means no fine, no jail time. But it most assuredly does not permit you to keep breaking the law.
McCain is correct when he says his plan is not amnesty – he requires a small fine before he awards the ill-gotten goods (residency) to the thieves. Soliciting a bribe after-the-fact is not different from a BP agent asking for the same bribe before the illegal crossing.
Tancredo, Hunter, Thompson, and Romney (not to mention Russert, et al) have let the debate get confused when they don’t use the words “rewards”, “bribes”, and “benefits” to describe McCain’s policy.
Very calmly, with no hysterics, let’s all repeat: McCain is unqualified on this issue alone. McCain, Hanson and Bush all repeat the tired false dichotomy of “We can’t deport 12 million undocumented immigrants, THEREFORE we have to give them a pathway to citizenship.” Baloney. They are disingenuous at best, and deceitful at worst, on this issue. They refuse to admit that the third choice, preferred by both Rep. and Dem., is working already – even in McCain’s own Arizona.
fred5678 on January 21, 2008 at 4:58 PM
When you’re trying to do it at the federal level, yeah, it kinda is. You’re trying to force your religious beliefs on people who don’t want them. How is that any different from what folks like the Taliban did?
HebrewToYou on January 21, 2008 at 4:59 PM
That’s all well and good, but, you know as well as I do, a Prez has no control on the abortion issue! This has been and will be settled through the courts! I applaud Hucks success there but we all know its out of the Prez’s control. All of the nominees are pro-life.Unfortunately, this seems to be about the only conservative thing Huck has done!
kcd on January 21, 2008 at 4:59 PM
Yes, Huckabee is good on abortion. Fine, I’ll concede that point (though it should be self-evident, since he’s a Christian, like the majority of us Southerners). I notice you can’t back up any same-sex marriage legislation.
The issues I take with Huckabee are his constant class-war tactics, the likes of which Marx would envy; his so-called disbelief in evolution, which he backed down from (Backward, Christian Soldiers!); his oft-repeated “illegal immigration is our chance to make up for slavery,” which is crazy; his love for taxes; his intrusive healthy lifestyle (I don’t smoke, don’t plan to, and I eat ‘nutritionally’; that does not mean I can mandate that no one can have a cigarette); his the Constitution is a “living document” (which is not a conservative principle at all); his pardoning of a rapist, by whom he was fooled; his endorsement by the NEA; and his flight around the nation with none other than Bill Clinton.
And, one of my favorite people in the world, Phyliss Schlafly, says he wrecked the GOP (and it’s easy to see why).
So, all he has is, he’s a Christian and he hates abortion. Join the club.
This is not the time to play around with Bob Doles and moderates. This is the time for a conservative.
emailnuevo on January 21, 2008 at 4:59 PM
were not blocking sh**. our options are liberals with R beside their name
palefaced on January 21, 2008 at 4:59 PM
Do you recall what Duncan Hunters complaint was? I do and it was akin to blaming Dick Cheney for Haliburton.
I think your Hitler analogy is just a wee bit hyperbolic. Unless you think that gas chambers and genocide are part of the equation, in which case I would suggest that you might be a little loony.
If you want to talk about IslamoFascist Jihadists, then a Hitler analogy is perfectly apt.
Buy Danish on January 21, 2008 at 5:00 PM
Let me assure you that I’m not a lefty troll, just google “Igor R.” and “Fred Thompson”. It’s also hard for me to be a nativist not having been born here. I hold not very uncommon views that Shamnesty is deadly and I don’t think I have to be troglodyte to hold these views.
Igor R. on January 21, 2008 at 5:01 PM
I think you’re being a tad apocalyptic…
Leave that business to the insane Huckabee supporters like Harald.
HebrewToYou on January 21, 2008 at 5:01 PM
In the meantime, perhaps you should consider why nearly everyone on hotair.com- and most other right wing blogs- opposes Huckabee, and whether perhaps they’ve come to that position for a reason.
Hollowpoint on January 21, 2008 at 4:56 PM
I already understand why right wing blogs oppose Huck….because right wing media hates him because he is an outsider and not a member of the amnesty elites…
It’s called marching lock in step.
You remember at the beginning of this race evry single one of you were saying “I like Huck I think he’ll make a great VP”…although since he started leading and the media villified him you absolutely can’t stand him under any circumstances. Is it a coincidence?
Mike Huckabee is the only conservative still in the race.
HaraldHardrada on January 21, 2008 at 5:01 PM
That, I disagree with. My opposition to abortion is based on the belief that life begins at conception; that just as animals can only produce after their own kind, man can only make man. There is no interim form that can be killed; the fetus is still a life. Therefore, a federal law outlawing abortion is only as intrusive as a federal law outlawing slavery – it only serves to protect life.
My opposition to Huckabee’s “God’s law” thing is, who decides what God’s law is? I’ve read his platform, and I don’t think he does. If we believe in the freedoms “endowed by our Creator,” then Huckabee is clearly not our guy.
emailnuevo on January 21, 2008 at 5:02 PM
I was only referring to the kind of damage he will do to this country. He isn’t evil like Herr Fuhrer.
Igor R. on January 21, 2008 at 5:03 PM
The media vilified Huckabee? When?
I was impressed enough by Huckabee’s performance in the debates to look at his record as Arkansas governor. That’s what turned me off to him.
Slublog on January 21, 2008 at 5:04 PM
always a risk when you stand on principle.
Onager on January 21, 2008 at 5:04 PM
I agree. Shamnesty should have demonstrated loudly and clearly to most everyone here that the federal government no longer represents the will of the people. The reason for this is simple—-because we keep voting for politicians that don’t represent us.
Lousy presidents can cause lasting damage to political parties. The Democrats are still paying a price for the Carter administration. I think that Republicans are paying a price right this instant for the Bush administration. While Reagan may have put an end to the Soviet Union, Bush has put an end to the Reagan coalition.
FloatingRock on January 21, 2008 at 5:04 PM
Laugh of the day!!! LOL LOL
kcd on January 21, 2008 at 5:04 PM
You’re my new favorite person. I bet you said that with a straight face, too.
Pretend to ask Kirk (conservative mind), Buckley, Reagan, and Goldwater how they’d feel about a guy who loves taxes.
Carter is a Christian, too.
emailnuevo on January 21, 2008 at 5:05 PM
McCain is right on every major issue:
He’s a small-government, free markets, free trade conservative. Yes, he opposed the Bush tax cuts. He was wrong to do so, but his reasons had nothing to do with being close to the Democrats. Look them up.
He has always had socially conservative positions. Complete and consistent opposition to infanticide, in favor of the correct interpretation of the Second Amendment, reasonable position on the stupid gay marriage issue.
Finally, and most importantly, he has been correct and will likely be correct on foreign policy. Strong advocate for the US, in favor of foreign intervention, understands Jihad, very pro-Israel, would put the Russians in their place, etc.
I am actually flabbergasted at why “conservatives” would somehow never vote for McCain. I gather it’s because of immigration. Guess what! It’s a non-issue! Nobody in this country cares about immigration! The fact that most people who criticize McCain for the law he supported last year have no viable alternative puts it in even more clearly. Fine, secure the border. Then what? What do you do with the millions of illegals in the country? At least he had a proposal. It was not amnesty, but I would agree with Romney that it was a “form” of amnesty – since there were penalties involved.
That leaves, um…I dunno, McCain-Feingold? Gee, great. Let’s decide the future of the country based on one law.
Please, to the people who think like this…stop behaving like spoiled children. National politics is not some silly game where you just live based on extremes. You’re obviously free and entitled to do it, but it’ll get you -and the country- nowhere.
McCain is a po-li-ti-cian. Period. I personally think he would be the best President, but I don’t expect him to be perfect on every single issue or to say what I want him to say every single time. That’s because I live in the real world. Come join me.
Baphomet on January 21, 2008 at 5:05 PM
That wouldn’t do it for me. I like Fred, but from what I know of McCain, he’s a fundamental Maverick. He does what he wants to, and he’s got a chip on his shoulder when people defy him. I don’t think Fred has the necessary clout to reign in McCain’s socialism.
MadisonConservative on January 21, 2008 at 5:05 PM
And nobody is as well versed as you!
*sigh* But alas, I agree with you.
geckomon on January 21, 2008 at 5:06 PM
Heh. Last summer was a long time ago, I guess.
Slublog on January 21, 2008 at 5:06 PM
People simply can’t remember how they have felt for more than a couple of months. In June, everyone thought McCain’s chances were nil because it was soon after the Shamnesty fight, but now after half a year, hey time heals all wounds. Maybe he is magically “not so bad” because we forgot what he stands for.
Igor R. on January 21, 2008 at 5:06 PM
And in case ya’ll’ve forgotten, McCain did a happy dance on the floor of the senate with good ole Teddy calling us all despicable nativists.
I don’t care who he partners with.
Onager on January 21, 2008 at 5:06 PM
Realism and pessimism are not the same thing, especially when we have candidates who are have more “issues” on which they are “perfect.” McCain’s not even in the top three.
emailnuevo on January 21, 2008 at 5:08 PM
Pretend to ask Kirk (conservative mind), Buckley, Reagan, and Goldwater how they’d feel about a guy who loves taxes.
emailnuevo on January 21, 2008 at 5:05 PM
Lol! You think Huck loves taxes??
He’s the only one who’s calling for the abolition of the income tax!
That’s what I’m talking about…nobody gets their info on him from his website or his speeches…they get everything from the MSM.
Fred(Mccain)Thompson says Huckabee’s a liberal…I must believe him.
HaraldHardrada on January 21, 2008 at 5:08 PM
Yes, I’d vote for McCain/Thompson. Maybe Thompson could salvage what’s left after a McCain presidency.
“Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.”
Mojave Mark on January 21, 2008 at 5:08 PM
Being opposed to abortion and gay marriage does not require religious belief.
Really? Then Rush Limbaugh and virtually every conservative pundit in the country is not “conservative”.
Buy Danish on January 21, 2008 at 5:09 PM
Only to cover the fact that he raised taxes again and again while governor of Arkansas.
Your spin is showing.
Slublog on January 21, 2008 at 5:09 PM
FloatingRock on January 21, 2008 at 5:04 PM
It is the incrimatization….Take down conservative values a little at a time. :(
kcd on January 21, 2008 at 5:09 PM
Non-issue? Nobody cares? What do you do with the ones already here? You’ve exposed what McCain and those who like him are all about. Yeah, go ahead and vote for him!
And with a few employer sanctions, the illegals start to self-deport in large numbers. It’s that simple.
Igor R. on January 21, 2008 at 5:09 PM
When? When they talked about how down-home he was, how quick and witty he seemed, how articulate and genuine he was?
You’re right, those are fightin’ words.
emailnuevo on January 21, 2008 at 5:09 PM
So your saying Duncan Hunter is just being a conspiracy theorist ?
He may have cited that but is more to it than just that reason for him not backing Mitt.
William Amos on January 21, 2008 at 5:10 PM
…..and the record during his governship is ??????????
palefaced on January 21, 2008 at 5:10 PM
Yes, go to the guy’s political website and listen to his three-copy writers, four speechwriters, and seventeen aides (I picked those numbers at random) and get the “real” scoop, straight from his mouth.
Give up, you’ve lost.
emailnuevo on January 21, 2008 at 5:11 PM
There is/was a story in the HA links about a Canadian immigrant interrogator denying a visa to a Chinese Christian refugee because they had never heard of “parabolas” in the Bible. The interrogator was that illiterate.
Igor R. on January 21, 2008 at 5:11 PM
No dude, I’m saying that Cheney doesn’t work for Haliburton anymore, not that that fact matters to some.
Buy Danish on January 21, 2008 at 5:12 PM
Really? Then Rush Limbaugh and virtually every conservative pundit in the country is not “conservative”.
Buy Danish on January 21, 2008 at 5:09 PM
Now you’re getting it.
Rush is no conservative…he has done nothing but back Bush even after Bush’s palestinian terror state plan,his kosovo terror state plan, his wife wearing a hijab,his islam is a religion of peace garbage…his huge spending etc. etc..
HaraldHardrada on January 21, 2008 at 5:12 PM
I strongly disagree. I think this move would more likely destroy Fred’s credibility with the conservative base. Who’s in the VP slot isn’t going to change the policies of the President, unless you have a zealot for a strong Executive like Cheney. Personally, I would have a hard time voting for Fred in ‘12 if he agreed to this.
Troy Rasmussen on January 21, 2008 at 5:12 PM
Lie. Ron Paul is, too.
Hyperbole is best when used in moderation.
emailnuevo on January 21, 2008 at 5:12 PM
Duncan is a simple-minded person. In his mind, Romney=Bain Capital=Easy on China=Enemy of the United States.
Igor R. on January 21, 2008 at 5:13 PM
“Yes, go to the guy’s political website and listen to his three-copy writers, four speechwriters, and Etc etc.”
Wrong again. Mike Huckabee writes all of his own speeches!
HaraldHardrada on January 21, 2008 at 5:13 PM
And Randi Rhodes is no liberal.
MadisonConservative on January 21, 2008 at 5:13 PM
But the fat guy from Hope – he’s our man!
I’m pretty sure Huckabee said that terrorists and jihadists perverted their religion, which 1)isn’t true and 2)is the same thing you’re objecting.
emailnuevo on January 21, 2008 at 5:14 PM
oh, on our lunch break , looking out a window of the hotel were building, gazing upon 30-40 “migrant workers” doing construction jobs we used to do…… theres alot us that care.
palefaced on January 21, 2008 at 5:14 PM
Ah, I get it now. You’re simply ignorant. Gotcha.
Huckster’s record on illegal immigration and amnesty is awful- as bad if not worse than McCain’s. Amnesty that was opposed almost universally here and on other right wing blogs, and one of the many reasons he’s so disliked around here. That he recently reversed his position doesn’t change that.
Clearly you’ve not taken even the most cursory glance at Huckster’s record and are completely unfamiliar with the right side of the blogosphere. He’s so strongly opposed because of what he’s done and what he’s said- nearly all of it non-conservative.
Hollowpoint on January 21, 2008 at 5:14 PM
And Im saying Hunter has enough doubts about Romney that he would never want to see him as Commander in Cheif and Im sure alot of military feels that way
William Amos on January 21, 2008 at 5:14 PM
This guys got it really bad…
kcd on January 21, 2008 at 5:15 PM
1)I doubt that, just because of the time factor.
2)Why the exclamation?
emailnuevo on January 21, 2008 at 5:15 PM
Whadda ya know, HardyHarHar just made me chuckle.
geckomon on January 21, 2008 at 5:15 PM
This guys got it really bad…
kcd on January 21, 2008 at 5:15 PM
And that ain’t good.
emailnuevo on January 21, 2008 at 5:16 PM
To Huckabee, a literal vs. symbolic interpretation of any religion’s holy book is such a stumbling block that it would totally derail his foreign policy.
Igor R. on January 21, 2008 at 5:16 PM
I agree with you. The problem is that 99% of my fellow UC Santa Cruz alumni disagree strongly, as does about 50% of the country.
There is no way in hell a Constitutional Amendment criminalizing/banning abortion will EVER see the light of day. It wont clear the legislature nor will 38 states ratify it. We should stop letting idiots like Huckabee try and steer this issue and focus on a real solution.
The best hope is to let individual states set their own laws re: abortion and gay marriage.
HebrewToYou on January 21, 2008 at 5:16 PM
oh, on our lunch break , looking out a window of the hotel were building, gazing upon 30-40 “migrant workers” doing construction jobs we used to do…… theres alot us that care.
palefaced on January 21, 2008 at 5:14 PM
Baphomet on January 21, 2008 at 5:17 PM
Hey Slu,
if you’re gonna feed this troll, at least poke it with a stick once in a while.
ChrisM on January 21, 2008 at 5:18 PM
HebrewToYou on January 21, 2008 at 5:16 PM
I disagree. Mike Huckabee is a very inspirational character that both conservatives and liberals like.
He is the best chance of uniting this country and if anyone can get a 2/3rds majority it is him.
HaraldHardrada on January 21, 2008 at 5:18 PM
Is this based on anything that Duncan Hunter has said or are you just speculating wildly?
Buy Danish on January 21, 2008 at 5:18 PM
I’m a Fred guy, but I think at this point that a Romney/Fred ticket is more likely than Fred winning it. (And I think that I really would like a Romney/Fred ticket.)
Theophile on January 21, 2008 at 5:18 PM
Tell ya what. If Huckabee can go to the Taliban/Al Queda, convince them their koran is wrong…I’ll vote for him. : )
kcd on January 21, 2008 at 5:19 PM
Legal, or illegal ones?
Entelechy on January 21, 2008 at 5:19 PM
Oh yeah, and on top of everything else, I don’t like their culture, more specifically the lack of respect for education in the particular stratum of that culture where most “migrants” come from.
Igor R. on January 21, 2008 at 5:20 PM
It’s more fun to watch Hollowpoint go after him.
No Mormons or Catholics need apply, though.
Slublog on January 21, 2008 at 5:20 PM
BTW as a history buff thought Id share this info
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harald_III_of_Norway
William Amos on January 21, 2008 at 5:21 PM
Thompson/Romney or I’ll settle for visa versa. ;)
kcd on January 21, 2008 at 5:22 PM
I’m a veteran and I’m supporting Romney. In fact, I don’t have one friend who’s military who likes McCain even a little bit.
William Amos is twisting what Hunter said to fit his own twisted world view.
davenp35 on January 21, 2008 at 5:22 PM
Come on, dude. It’s not a lack of respect for education, it’s a lack of opportunity.
I’m not suggesting that that is our problem, but let’s not malign people who live in poverty through no fault of their own.
Buy Danish on January 21, 2008 at 5:22 PM
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