As for the Romney mess, Mike Huckabee asked a reporter a stupid question about the Mormon faith (BTW I was on several websites during the last year, and that statement was true even if he shouldn’t have said it). He immediately apologized to Romney and apologized to the Mormon people on Larry King Live…I saw the video. What else do you want blood.

You ask what did Romney do to MH..well for starters he was the only candidate who put out half-truth ads against his fellow Republicans so he could win..I guess his record in MASS. wasn’t enough to him to put out ads on his own record. All the candidates hated him for doing that. He spent between $15-20M on ads just in Iowa against Mike Huckabee. Of course, part of it was true, so people believed the ads. I have heard many on this website state some of the information, so it was certainly effective. This made MH so mad, he made the ad against Romney. At the last minute he decided not to run the ad. He showed it to the reporters because they had been pretty negative with him, and he wanted to prove that he had made the ad. He called and cancelled the ads in the newspapers, but the first day had already printed and he couldn’t stop them. I understand your questioning this because if I was in your shoes, I probably would too. I am just telling you what happened. The people of Iowa must have believed him because he beat Romney by 9%. BTW, Mitt Romney and his surrogates “donated” over $500,000 to Club for Growth. You know the organization that had ads out every day against Mike Huckabee..calling him a liberal candidate. taxes etc. If you think that was a coincidence, you are smoking something. After the Iowa primary, Romney told the news that Mike Huckabee only got the Christian vote. Not then, but much later, I saw the breakdown in Iowa and Mitt Romney got a lot of the Christian vote too. Mike Huckabee got the Republican vote too, but since many other states had already voted, it didn’t seem important for the media to correct this info. Because Mitt Romney said this, of course, the media all picked up on this that MH only could get Christians to vote for him. That wasn’t true, but because of lot of people believed that lie, it affected who voted for him in the next primaries. It worked Romney and the radio and TV pundits said everytime they spoke about Mike Huckabee, the Baptist preacher so the voters wouldn’t vote for him. The Washington Establishment did not want Mike Huckabee to win because he was the pro-life Christian candidate from the far-right. When MH continued to win like on Super Tues when he won 5 states, then LA, KS after that, the radio and TV pundits just ignored him and never mentioned his name except on election night when the votes came in. Do you see how much the Republican Establishment, the media and Radio and TV pundits hurt his chances during the 2008 primary. Yet everyday, they pushed Mitt Romney for VP on their radio and TV shows.

I will tell you what really happened in Virginia. Nobody had enough votes in the caucus on the first round. Remember nobody liked Romney. Mike Huckabee came in second to Romney….John McCain was further down the list. Ron Paul told Mike Huckabee he would have his followers vote for MH if MH would give him the delegates. Mike agreed to this. It had nothing to do with John McCain other than, of course, he didn’t want Romney to win VA either. There were posts from Ron Paul thanking MH for doing this. It was because it helped John McCain that everybody assumed they had a deal. That wasn’t the case.

Mitt Romney paid surrogates to infiltrate all the internet blogs to push for him and criticize MH. Mike Huckabee was accused of robocalls. There was an organization, nothing from Huckabee, who did some robocalls for Mike. He told them to stop many times,but they thought they were helping him. That isn’t the way Mike Huckabee ran his campaign or wanted any part of that. They wouldn’t stop, and of course Mike Huckabee was blamed. I wouldn’t be surprised that Mitt Romney was behind that. He had the money to do that…Mike Huckabee didn’t have hardly any money. He ran his whole campaign on $5M against Romney’s $75-80M??, but Romney still couldn’t win, because the American people saw him for the phony he was and still is.

Mike Huckabee and his followers have nothing against the Mormon religion. That was “assumed” in the media probably because of his original statement. Yes, Mike Huckabee doesn’t like Mitt Romney but that’s because he has no principles that he stands on. He was for abortion before he was against…Even Ted Kennedy when he ran against Mitt Romney for the Senate said Mitt Romney had no principles. He says to people what it takes to get their votes, true or not!!!

Yes because Mike Huckabee is a Christian he believes in miracles and he knew it would take one to win the nomination. Remember with no money he went very far in that election. He wanted the people to still have a choice so they would come out and vote (and of course he hoped they would vote for him), but he was not only fighting John McCain,but all the media. Everyday after Mitt dropped out,all the news said things about John McCain and how he had “unofficially” won the nomination. Think about that, when people in the later primaries heard this day after day, they didn’t bother to vote for Mike Huckabee because they wanted to their vote to count for the “winner” John McCain. People accused him of colluding with John McCain…maybe he wanted to show them he was in it to win for himself, not John McCain. What if it had been your candidate that the whole Republican Party, the media, all the Republican radio and TV pundits treated like he wasn’t even running, how would you have felt as one of his supporters? Many of MH’s supporters dropped out of the Republican Party and joined the Independent Party because of how unfair they treated MH during the primaries.

Mike Huckabee wanted John McCain and Sarah Palin to win the general election,but John McCain did not ask or apparently want Mike Huckabee to campaign for him. Mike offered several times. But when John McCain was to pick his VP, Mike Huckabee did warn John McCain not to pick anybody, including Mitt Romney,who wasn’t pro-life because he knew John McCain would not get the far-right voters to support him in the general election. He had been on the websites and knew that the Christians would not support a VP like that on the ticket, it was bad enough to have John McCain as the nominee. He was thinking about Republicans winning the general. Of course, the media and probably most of you thought MH was showing his bigotry…but that was far from the truth. He stated many times he has no problem with any other religion and governed in Arkansas for 10 1/2 years and never pushed his religion on anybody. MH had many reasons to dislike Mitt Romney and he had the right to his own opinion (Mitt Romney did not like MH either).

I guess all to state that Mike Huckabee isn’t the slimy canidate,it is and was Mitt Romney. He just pays to have his surrogates do the dirty work for him behind the scenes so people think he’s a nice guy. He may be a nice guy, BUT not in politics..

Mike Huckabee had every right to stay in the race before Super Tuesday…look he won almost the whole south that day. Nobody had the right to say he should drop out of the race. Mitt Romney only one the state of Michigan on his own. What I mean is the other candidates didn’t have enough money to go out and campaign in the West, and because there is a huge Mormon population he won several of those states on Super Tues. Just because you didn’t want Mike Huckabee to stay in the race doesn’t mean he should get out. A “miracle” could have happened, nobody really knew for sure. It was a “miracle” that MH won Iowa on no money, so it could have happened again. Mike Huckabee didn’t allow John McCain to win and certainly never made a deal with the devil…you probably should be looking at Mitt Romney and how dirty he played in that campaign if you want to look for the deal with the devil.

As far as this election, looks like Mike Huckabee is pretty popular with lots of voters..that’s why he has won the PPP vote for 6 months as the Republican closest to beating Obama. He also is within 2-3 points (margin of error) and all the other polls except one. That doesn’t show that he has such a “small base.” People have seen him on this show, “Huckabee” and they like him. He has gone straight to the American people since the Republican Establishment won’t even give him the time of day…something like Sarah has gone on Facebook to get her info out to the public.

Mike Huckabee is more of a slimy douchebag than Mitt Romney will ever be just on the West Virginia back room deals with John McCain.

Conservative Samizdat on September 28, 2009 at 1:19 PM

I agree with you, but the operative wording here is more of a slimy douchebag than Romney. Neither one is worth the effort.

RomneyCare can’t win the primary, let alone the general against Obama, and much like McCain would have, even if RomneyCare wins, he is a Big Government “progressive” who won’t do our brand any good in the long run.

And lets face it, Elmer Gantry Huckabee has a small base, and Sarah Palin appeals to that base as well as her own much larger base of Reagan conservatives.

I want her to have a tough primary. If she is just coronated, it will look bad, and hurt her in the general. But when it comes to winning the hearts and minds of the American people, it will be all Sarah Palin.

Mitt and Huck are just bit players.

Doesn’t anybody ever think that if Mitt Romney had not been in the campaign spending his millions trying to smear Mike Huckabee

Wow. Mitt Romney smearing Mike Huckabee?

Do you not forget Mike Huckabee and his campaign managers attacking Mitt Romney’s faith? Do you not remember the special media announcement where he showed his advertisement to the press after stating he wouldn’t show it at all? Do you not remember the West Virginia deal that Mike Huckabee made with John McCain??

Do you all just assume Mike Huckabee would have lost? After Mike Huckabee dropped out of the primary, he continued to win 10-13% of the voters in the states left.

HAHAHAHAHAHA!! Riiiiiight. What ever you’re smoking, you gotta quit it.

Mike Huckabee said that he would win the election and that he believed in “miracles” despite the fact that the electoral math worked completely against him. There was no way Huckabee was going to win even after Romney dropped out.

Lets not forget that Mike Huckabee was in 3rd place in the primaries until the very last few weeks when he finally, finally, got 2nd place over Mitt Romney.

I will never vote for Mitt Romney after what he did to MH during the last campaign

VFT, I’m curious what it was that Mitt Romney did to Mike Huckabee that has you so upset with Romney?

How do you feel about the dirty deal that Mike Huckabee made with John McCain win West Virgina to rob Mitt Romney’s victory in West Virgina?

Thanks to Mike Huckabee’s deal with the devil, he allowed John McCain to win the GOP nomination. It was a stupid thing to do since it led to his loss.

Mike Huckabee is more of a slimy douchebag than Mitt Romney will ever be just on the West Virginia back room deals with John McCain.

I’d bet money most of the anti-Palin viciousness on the right has its roots in McCain Land. Let’s face it, she made him look BAD.

It’s like peanuts, why stop with just one

Regardless of how much the establishment touts Mitt and dishes Mike and Sarah in the final analysis it will come down to these three in the end when primary season comes upon us. Each has a constituency and each is strong relatively to the others. No other conservative will be able to out-Reagan Sarah and I don’t believe any “moderate” will be able to “out-moderate” Mitt because of Mitt’s money. As for Huck he is viable as long as base continues to support him.

You should hear them…they have a post about how the moderate candidate (Romney) can win. He will still have the Christian conservatives like McCain did in 2008, so he can be just like McCain trying to get the Independents and Moderate Democratic voters and assuming the Christian Conservatives will believe that he was supposed to be such a right-wing Conservative in the primary of 2008, now he’s a moderate Republican who is still pro-life….RIGHT!!! I guess they didn’t get the message that McCain lost….people are ready for a pro-life right-wing candidate like Mike Huckabee or Sarah Palin. They live in the East Coast, Washington DC bubble and haven’t a clue what the regular conservative voter in the middle of the country wants. It sure isn’t a flip flopper like Mitt Romney!!! We lost because McCain was trying so hard to get the Independents and moderate Dems. that he forgot about the Republican voters. If Sarah Palin hadn’t got into the race as the VP nominee, most of the Christian Conservatives would not have voted for him. All of the Mike Huckabee supporters were very happy that Sarah Palin was the VP nominee and happily supported her. On the other hand, Mitt Romney’s supporters bad mouthed her on every website after she was picked for VP choice. Especially after McCain lost, they bad mouth Sarah because they saw her as somebody who could beat Mitt.

‘Cuda’s emerging positioning as a libertarian populist in 2012

lmao.. as if libertarians or even the “libertarian leaning Republicans” support pre-emptive war, nation-building, and erosion of sovereignty like she does. Until she admits that the Global War on Terror is a big sham then she’ll still be an AIPAC loving neocon.

“bayview on September 26, 2009 at 12:44 PM

BV… for some on the political conservative side “pragmatism” is a dirty word.

From a military point of view “pragmatism” is the soldiers “best friend”.

Fore all practical purposes I can’t imagine why it couldn’t be successfully incorporated into the conservative view?

1] A practical, matter-of-fact way of approaching or assessing situations or of solving problems.
2] Policy dictated by practical consequences rather than by theory.
3] Philosophy the doctrine that the content of a concept consists only in its practical applicability.

Aw… after further perusal…perhaps I’ve “found the rub”…?
It [pragmatism] doesn’t necessarily bring God into the equation?
However a pragmatist could…!

“You poke a mama grizzly enough, and she is going to turn around and rip you to shreds, and never think twice about it!~~gary4205 on September 26, 2009 at 10:21 PM

Sarah has an X factor that few will ever have. Frankly, Obama seemed to have it to. Of course, he had the entire media pushing him to messiah status. Now the bloom is off the rose, and we see her really didn’t have anything at all.

EXACTLY… You go to the head of the class…

I honestly can’t wait until the day when John McCain retires to Sonoma… Please… You’ve lived a good life… Now go and enjoy your retirement… You’ve earned it…

kens on September 27, 2009 at 2:54 PM

What do you call signing a socialist healthcare plan and two unconstitutional gun bans as Governor of MA?
Romney is a fraud from the word GO.

Now think about this….Mike Huckabee and Sarah Palin both run and split their votes, which leaves Mitt Romney coming through the middle just like McCain did last time. AND Mitt has probably thought through this scenario in that if Mike Huckabee wins more than Sarah Palin, all the people who support Palin will turn to Romney..again giving him the victory.

People have stated many times since the 2008 primaries that Mike Huckabee was the spoiler. Doesn’t anybody ever think that if Mitt Romney had not been in the campaign spending his millions trying to smear Mike Huckabee enough so he would get the votes, Mike Huckabee might have won the nomination? Do you all just assume Mike Huckabee would have lost? After Mike Huckabee dropped out of the primary, he continued to win 10-13% of the voters in the states left. That’s without campaigning or spending any money there. Not even Mitt Romney continued to win near that kind of support after he dropped out.

I know all of you want Sarah to win. Personally I am a Mike Huckabee fan all the way, BUT if Mike Huckabee doesn’t run or drops out (which I doubt), I would vote for Sarah. I will never vote for Mitt Romney after what he did to MH during the last campaign, but mostly because I can never trust him to stand on principles because he doesn’t have any! He will pander to whomever he can fool to vote for him. Think about how horrible he would be as Pres. He would be so worried about losing the 2nd election, that he would continue to pander to everybody. He can’t be trusted. I firmly believe Romney was partially at fault for McCain’s loss. It was Romney who told McCain to vote yes for the TARP money. People say that’s what made McCain fail. His people handled Sarah Palin, and I think deliberately sabatoged her at every turn, and then leaked bad statements to the press to continue helping people turn against her. If Mike Huckabee should win against Sarah, please don’t let Romney win by voting for him. You know if MH wins, he would do it fairly and the people will make the decision. Remember what I have said when the time comes. Mike Huckabee and Sarah Palin have many, many things in common. Sarah Palin and Romney, the elitist, have nothing in common.

He is history.

So is Huckabee.

They are nothing more than re-treads, just like John McCain.

To fight an incumbent liberal, the opposing groups must unite immediately. Liberal presidents do not nothing in their term except “campaigning”.

That’s a lesson from History.

We must position now our candidate now or we will just repeat the FDR, Truman and Clinton eras.

By calling attention to Romneycare or Huck’s fiscal liberalism or to question political motives or actions is fair but to utilize scurrilous individual rhetoric only harms our side while we forget who the real enemy is: Obama and his agenda.

technopeasant on September 26, 2009 at 4:15 PM

To fight an incumbent liberal, the opposing groups must unite immediately. Liberal presidents do not nothing in their term except “campaigning”.

That’s a lesson from History.

We must position now our candidate now or we will just repeat the FDR, Truman and Clinton eras.

gary4205 on September 26, 2009 at 10:57 PM

Bravo!

gary4205 on September 26, 2009 at 10:21 PM

A+