Monday, November 17, 2008
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Huckabee Talks to Bloggers About New Book, Endorses Saltsman for RNC Chair
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Posted by:
Matt Lewis at
4:12 PM
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Today, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee held a conference call from New York to discuss his new book, "Do the Right Thing."
Regarding the coverage of his new book today, Huckabee said: "The reviewers took some of the more controversial parts" and reduced that down to "that's what the book is." He admitted the book was "by intent, provocative," and said it was important to "shoot straight."
He said he felt the TIME column was balanced, but that the Politico piece was less balanced. (And he referenced the fact that Politico included a response from Romney's campaign, but that Romney's campaign did not refute what he wrote in the book).
"This book is honest," he said, "I take you behind the scenes in the debates, and I take you behind the scenes with some of the conversations I had." He also said the book will answer questions such as, "why did certain alignments take place -- or why didn't certain alignments take place?"...
But Huckabee also pointed out that his book is not merely a recitation of the 2008 primary campaign. Instead, the the stories in the book are meant to serve as a background to provide a context for talking about the future of the conservative movement and the GOP.
He dismissed speculation that he might run in 2012, noting that at this point four years ago we were talking about "President George Allen," "President Bill Frist," and "President Fred Thompson" (on the call, he reiterated the notion that if Fred Thompson weren't in South Carolina, that he would have won the state -- and probably the nomination.)
Regarding the notion that social conservatives are a dying entity, he noted that some pundits were, "writing the obituary while the body is still breathing," and added that, "it was the cultural conservatives who kept John McCain as close in the race as he was." Huckabee also warned against becoming a Democrat Lite party, saying: "We didn't lose elections because we were pro-Life, we started losing elections when we acted like that didn't really matter."
When asked how he could be called a "fiscal liberal" by some, Huckabee responded: "... if they really listened to my views and looked at my record in Arkansas, they'd know I was a fiscal conservative..."
But he also noted that he was a governor who had to balance a budget. He said he didn't have the option the Federal government has, "which is to keep borrowing money."
Huckabee also used this opportunity to endorse his former campaign manager Chip Saltsman for RNC Chairman: "I saw his ability to operate a very frugal operation, which I think the RNC could use a lesson in." He also added that Chip would be very good at "using technology and trying to create a party of the future..."
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I thought we were rid of these left wing Idiots after the election, and I wonder why they show how afraid they are of true conservatives? It’s funny how they can put Mike down with all of the good he is doing on his new show. He even said Obama was going to be his president to, so I find this talk back a little silly and a lot of liberal winning.
That’s right be afraid, be very afraid WE WILL BE BACK and not running in the middle anymore. This is very simple, respect of life, limited government, lower taxes, and a strong military that will make a true conservative. Mike is a very smart man and was the only one running for the office of president that had all of these qualifications. |
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us on this site, but if we all just would not read their posts or reply to them they would eventually go away. And just for the record......there's too many liberals in the United States; that's why we have a Socialist President. |
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To many Liberals on here trying to make you think,
that its conservatives against conservatives,
if your a conservative,
you like, Huckabee,Romney,Palin,
you might like one better then the other,
but your not going to trash them like some people on here do,
wake up people.
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To many Liberals on here trying to make you think,
that its conservatives against conservatives,
if your a conservative,
you like, Huckabee,Romney,Palin,
you might like one better then the other,
but your not going to trash them like some people on here do,
wake up people.
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is devastating to romney!! it verifys everything hackabee said about romney and proves romney a self serving backstabbing fake. |
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Funny how the subtitle to Huck's book is, "Do the Right Thing" but during the primaries Huck so often chose NOT to do the right thing...like in Iowa when he lied to the media, saying he he was a good guy and wasn't going to show them an anti-Romney ad he and his hatchet man Ed Rollins had made, but then he went ahead and showed it to them anyway, saying he "didn't think they would believe he had made it." Now that's what I call "doing the right thing." Time to practice what you preach Huck. You slimy hipocrite. |
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thank you for the great service you provide in identifying the logical blindness of the Governor Huckabee character assassins.
Please continue to counter their charges on TH in the future.
I know that they will never open their eyes but some people who read these posts will get to see both sides of the issue.
Readers who are rational and competent will soon realize these people on TH who attack Governor Huckabee also attack anyone else who might be a real challenger to Romney in 2012.
Something makes them blind to reality. |
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I have not a lot of respect for Mike Huckabee and I don't believe he has much of a political future, but your generalizations are obnoxious and have no place in this discussion.
Huckabee has every right to put forth his ideas and his vision. Those of us who choose who we believe or decide to support will decide who will be future leaders of the country. |
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Huckabee is so bigoted he can't even help himself. He is too stupid to realize that the only thing in his book anyone cares about is the few paragraphs on Romney. Huckabee can barely contain his jealously of everything Romney has: wealth, an education, intelligence . . . a family that weighs less than a 747. Huckabee is a painful reminder that overweight, inbred, redneck, fools still proliferate in the midwest, where they reduce the whole party. |
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[J on 19 November 2008 12:04 PM]"I don't think Mitt released rapists.. to do it again.. with murder on the side"
What do you think of Romney's judges?
Romney's Judge Tuttman
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=b321eb50-1b0c-4abc-8ef a-66b40fff3703%40e10g2000prf.googlegroups.com
Romney's stellar judicial appointments
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=9380a1ac-650e-4e62-a8a 8-cc86e06ca2a1%40q77g2000hsh.googlegroups.com
from
http://townhall.com/blog/default.aspx?mode=post&g=b7757713- 94b7-47c0-b10c-1e811e54acbd&comments=true&submitted=true588 1f5d9-626b-4d2b-9e2b-6eacc792c39f
JoeB131 writes: Wednesday, May, 28, 2008 7:39 AM
Wayne Dumond- Setting the Record Straigh
Once again, QM7 brings up Wayne Dumond "finding Jesus" and Huckabee releasing him as an excuse to bash the guy.
let's set the record straight. Dumond was convicted of raping a cousin of Bill Clinton, after she had identified two other men as her attacker. Authorities in that county turned a blind eye when Dumond was castrated by unknown assalaints (The sheriff later kept his testicles in a jar as a trophey) and burned down his house. He was convicted to life plus 30 years. Jim Guy Tucker reduced that 35 years, making him eligible for parole. He became a caus celebre for the far right wing, who thought he was a victim of the Clinton machine.
Huckabee did not commute his sentence. The parole board did, provided he leave the state. Yes, he went on to murder again, but was it because he was always a bad guy, or because 14 years in prison turned him into a monster? Who knows. The thing was that when he was paroled, he had a wife, a pastor, an employer and a warden all willing to vouch for him, and it still took another two years before he was released.
Of course, none of this gets through to QM7, who is enjoying her hate-high.
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[Aaron on November 19, 2008 2:59 PM]"I love the anit-mormon rhetoric bravo"
Do you love Romney's judge appointments?
Lewis, Raphael. 25 July 2005. "Romney jurist picks not tilted to GOP
Independents, Democrats get call" _The Boston Globe_
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/07/25/romney _jurist_picks_not_tilted_to_gop/
Romney, despite his opposition to same-sex
marriage, in May selected for a district court
judgeship Stephen S. Abany, a former board
member of the Massachusetts Lesbian and Gay Bar
Association who organized the group's opposition to
a 1999 bill to outlaw same-sex marriage. Just two
days before the nomination, Romney was lamenting
the liberal tilt of the state's bench, telling Fox News
that ''our courts have a record here in
Massachusetts, don't they, of being a little blue and
being Kerry-like."
Another Romney choice for the bench is Marianne
C. Hinkle, a registered Democrat who worked as an
aide to Governor Michael S. Dukakis in the late
1970s and prosecuted John C. Salvi III in the 1994
Brookline abortion clinic shootings. Hinkle, in her
application for the bench, describes herself as a
longtime active member of Dignity/USA, a group
that advocates for expanded gay rights in the
Catholic Church and society generally.
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Romney has faced criticism from Governor's
Councilors and some bar associations for failing to
nominate more women, minorities, and defense
attorneys to the bench. Seeking to counter such
attacks, Romney's appointee to the chairmanship of
the Judicial Nominating Commission, Boston lawyer
Christopher D. Moore, has reached out to minority
and women's bar associations to encourage
members to apply. He's done the same with the
state lesbian and gay bar association, which also
has a seat on Romney's joint bar committee.
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how can accurate qoutes from mormon founders be anti mormon? |
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ruffedge writes:
"Please don't think that Romney could possibly have beaten Obama, not a chance. Not only would Obama have linked him to Bush, he would have had a field day with his endless flip flops."
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ruffedge,
You need to read this excellent article by Marie Jon:
McCain and Romney, now that's the ticket
http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/jon/080820
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Synthesizer I love the anit-mormon rhetoric bravo. |
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Widdle Huckie is a greedy, petty, whiny opportunist. He's written this book for attention and profit, just as he wrote "When Kids Kill" to make a fast buck despite the pleas of families affected by a tragic school shooting. It was blood money and Huckie kept it all for himself rather than assisting the families in any way! Nice going preacher-man!
God, he makes me SICK!
Huckabee's Jonesboro book still rankles:
http://articles.latimes.com/2008/jan/26/nation/na-huckabee2 6
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Ozzing smarm from every pore.. there is a snake-
oil smell about Huckabee. The dog in the manger
syndrome.. greedy man ! The .. I can't have it
and I'll make sure you can't too..!!
I don't think Mitt released rapists.. to do it again.. with murder on the side.. ??
Glen Beck will blow the Huck show off the map.
Lousy show.. boring !! Phoney baloney!!
Bets on how soon the book hits the 1 $$$$ stores,
bargain table next to the cheap toilet paper!!
Now that cheers me up!!
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[ruffedge on November 18, 2008 5:18 PM]"Please don't think that Romney could possibly have beaten Obama, not a chance. ....would have had a field day with his endless flip flops."
Romney's flip-flops on immigration, minimum wage, abortion, homosexual agenda, campaign finance reform,
gun control, LDS theology.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=8458206d-7aa4-4800-9a4 9-948df8f8035a%40p1g2000hsb.googlegroups.com
Add to that this:
an Obama insider
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.politics.bush/msg/e2e2a5 b827ba8ad9?hl=en
In my capacity in the research department, I looked into the backgrounds of Leiberman, Romney, Pawlenty and Ridge, and prepared briefs. I don't mind bragging that we had pretty good stuff on all of them. With Leiberman, the plan was to paint him as an erratic old-timer who didn't have a clue as to what he was doing (pretty much a clone of McCain). In Romney, we had him pegged as an evil capitalist who cut jobs.
SCM employees on Romney's job-cutting
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/05/30/these-ads-kept-mit t-romne_n_49954.html
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greed, envy, & entitlement...Huckabee you're in the wrong party!
Court Jester (Huckabee),you need to stick w/ your variety show (which by the way is clicked off everytime it comes on).
NO OTHER POLITICIAN BASHES OTHERS OF HIS/HER OWN PARTY ANY BETTER THAN YOU HUCK!
You did not like the fact that Romney exposed your record & challenged your decisions. Your are way too defensive & thin skinned to be a productive leader!
Huck, it's time all Conservatives put their pettiness aside, be productive, & gain our party's pride back. Your're a mess!
READ ROMNEY'S OP-ED IN THE NY TIMES! IT'S SPOT ON!
ROMNEY'S A PRODUCTIVE CONSERVATIVE THAT CAN GET HIS MESSAGE ACROSS W/OUT BRINGING SOMEONE ELSE DOWN TO MAKE HIMSELF (huckabee) FEEL IMPORTANT! |
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[Jane the Wife and Mom on November 18, 2008 4:30 PM]"Romney is showing his classy side, as usual."
Indeed.
[Qweenmumof7 on February 6, 2008 10:54 PM]"I'm glad he's [Romney is] the only one with character in this race. His class shows where junkyard dogs like Huck and McCain show true colors."
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Mitt's Concession Speech
Posted by: Matt Lewis at 9:38 PM
http://townhall.com/blog/g/9088af39-b48d-4c6a-9c5f-18532ccd 4f5b?comments=true#comments
Jon - I agree. Something's wrong with Mitt. He looks and sounds very angry and upset. He's not at all gracious. And his speech is basically a stump speech that seems to me, at least, to be preachy, out-of-place, and inappropriate.
Luo, Michael. 24 January 2008. "Romney Leads in Ill Will Among G.O.P. Candidates" _The New York Times_
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/24/us/politics/24romney.html ?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
Aides to Mr. Huckabee say he did not get to know Mr. Romney very well as a governor, finding him distant at meetings. The aides said they were also irritated that Mr. Romney did not call after Mr. Huckabee’s victory in Iowa.
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
McCain Calls Romney to Congratulate Him
Posted by: Mary Katharine Ham at 9:18 PM
http://www.townhall.com/blog/g/4744508d-d6f0-4183-accc-4cc2 76caf690
Update: Mitt Romney's stepping on McCain's concession speech with his victory speech. I guarantee you there are a couple dozen people at McCain camp looking at the TVs switching to Mitt right now, going "God, I hate those guys."
Update: E.M. tells me that was happening all weekend in Michigan. McCain had to schedule events with hours between his and Romney's planned appearances or he'd get his toes stepped on.
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[charlotte on November 18, 2008 12:53 PM]"i didnt see huckabee going around campaigning for mccain like romney did"
Was Romney campaigning for McCain, or campaigning for the VP slot?
Washington Prowler
Post-Defeat Planners
By The Prowler on 10.27.08 @ 6:11AM
http://www.spectator.org/archives/2008/10/27/post-defeat-pl anners/print
ROMNEY ANTI-PALIN
"Sarah Palin is a lightweight, she won't be the first, not even the third, person people will think of when it comes to 2012," says one former Romney aide, now working for McCain-Palin. "The only serious candidate ready to challenge to lead the Republican Party is Mitt Romney. He's in charge on November 5th."
Romney has kept a low profile nationally since being denied the vice presidential nomination. He is currently traveling for the National Republican Congressional Committee in support of some House members, and has attended events for a handful of other House members who have sought his support, but he has traveled little for the McCain-Palin ticket. "He said the only time he'd travel for us is if we assured him that national cameras would be there," says a McCain campaign communications aide. "He's traveled to Nevada and a couple other states for us. That's about it."
Should McCain-Palin not win next week, Romney is expected to mount another presidential run, though it isn't clear that he has handled himself particularly well since losing the nomination. He failed to support or espouse conservative positions on the economic bailout bill in an effective or meaningful way, and he has turned down opportunities to endorse and work for conservative candidates in House or Senate seats unless they were assured of winning.
The most glaring oversight was Romney's refusal to do a phone recording for Massachusetts Republican Jeff Beatty, who is challenging Sen. John Kerry.
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So maybe Huckabee has a following of conservative evangelicals. He and his friends and followers are not the future of a conservative party that is going to win the next presidential election. Old conservative white men are going to find it very difficult, if not impossible, to get elected in future elections. McCain was a harbinger of that. (Of course, it's a cake walk for old radical, leftist white men , e.g., Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, Teddy Kennedy, Jack Murtha, etc.).
The most Huck can hope for is IF a conservative managed to get elected in 2012, his group would manage to get the ear of whoever was elected.
And really, a large part of whether conservatives will be able to win in 2010 and 2012 depends on how big Obama nation screws up. |
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We need Governor Romney and Governor Palin to fix our economy and get our country back on the right track,
they are true Christian Conservatives,
Mike Huckabee for Sec of State
Rudy for AG
Freddy for amb to the UN
Micheal Steele head of the RNC
that way everyone is happy.
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acording to the founders of romneys religon ,he is not a christian,while his religon and and christianity hold some similar veiws, they are miles apart on others
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We need Governor Romney and Governor Palin to fix our economy and get our country back on the right track,
they are true Christian Conservatives.
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[AmericanWoman on November 18, 2008 12:27 PM]"He is not honest
and that's what we don't like about him."
Is Romney honest?
York Byron. 26 November 2007. "A GOP Attack on Romney"
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=OTBiOTQ1N2I1NWYxNT ZkNGNhMmZkNGUzZjg4MmViNDE=
A scathing attack on Mitt Romney today from Jim Rappaport, the former head of the Massachusetts Republican party who just held a conference call with reporters to announce his endorsement of Rudy Giuliani. Rappaport praised Giuliani's record in New York and said Romney "has a strong record of showmanship as opposed to actual performance."
Discussing Romney's relationship with the Massachusetts state legislature, Rappaport said of the former governor, "His word is no good…Mitt Romney would say one thing in a meeting and literally go out of the meeting to the press and tell the opposite story. There was no desire in the legislature to be accommodating to him because they couldn't trust him." Romney, Rappaport continued, "will be clear today on what he believes today, and he'll be clear tomorrow on what he believes tomorrow, but they may be different things."
30 June 2007. _The Boston Globe_
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/2008/specials/romney/ar ticles/part7_main?mode=PF
At first, Romney voiced no objections to the fee, which some conservatives saw as a new tax. But in an April 11 op-ed article in The Wall Street Journal, Romney said he would take ''corrective action.''
Democrats who were invited to Romney's bill-signing extravaganza the next day at Faneuil Hall felt betrayed, furious that Romney had vetoed the ''employer assessment'' and seven other sections of the 145-page bill.
Romney is a big liar!
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.politics.republicans/msg /798c5314480d0328
3 February 2008. serial liar Romney claims NRA endorsement-- again
http://race42008.com/2008/02/03/romney-flips-on-guns/
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First I've heard of Huck "bashing" Palin, from you two. He praised her when McCain announced her for VP.
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Back from "enjoying" your Larry Flynt magazines yet? |
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Another thing, it was Romney splitting the conservative vote.
Huck had a track record of it, Romney was one for 5 minutes. By '12 I might be comfortable with him if he sticks with it (notwithstanding the fact that he'd have had my vote in '08; whereas I wasn't on board with McCain until he picked Palin). |
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A Mormon (other posters said you are, sorry if I'm wrong) with a sense of humor!
See, we can all get along. |
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Oh yeah, in his commentator role on Hannity & Colmes, Huck's been against the $700bil Wall Street bailout. (Something a lot of Republican voters think McCain should have done, instead of going along with Obama.)
He's closer to Ron Paul than anybody else in the primary was. And some folks think he's not a fiscal conservative. |
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Actually, I thought it was funny. The difference is that if Romney sold me a car, it would be an honest deal, and the car would be safe and run. If huck sold me the car, I would drive it off the lot, and have to push it the rest of the time! |
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There is so much crap from everyone with a man-crush on Mitt, I don't have time to deal with it all. Let me just say what I said in the primaries, I would have gladly voted for Mitt, as would many evangelicals who voted for him in the primaries (And did anybody notice how Utah voted 97% for Mitt? Is that religious bigotry? Come on now. Not to mention all the Mormons/Catholics/agnostics/gays/atheists who pile on Huck with their religious bigotry in full view.) But I preferred Huck because Mitt was so Johnny-come-lately on social issues, and because, following GWB, the GOP did not need to run another bidness-success child-of-privilege so soon. If Mitt's such a good Mormon family man, why did he force town clerks to change marriage certificates? He wasn't "following the law" because the state legislature had not even rewritten the law yet! (that the state supreme court mandated them to do). And why did he allow in-room porn to continue at Marriott while on its board of directors? Now, looking ahead to 2012, Palin's got 57 million voters if she wants them. The GOP needs her, Huck, Paul, Keyes, or yes even Romney if he gives a lot of speeches in the next 4 years renouncing his conservative missteps...somebody to return us to Reagan. The GOP voices who wanted to run a moderate are the ones who need to be purged from the party.
I guess my point is you could pick anybody apart. Realize instead that we need a leader who can unite the party by ably voicing its concerns, not a saint. |
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Thank you for your common sense!
So to everybody else who's chosen sides, what would be wrong with a Huck/Romney ticket (or vice versa) for 2012? Don't you think that would unite the party? (I'm just saying...not ignoring Palin or anything). |
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"Every time I see or hear Huckabee talk, I feel like he is trying to sell me a used car?"
LOL! That's what many TH posters said about Mitt during the primaries ("reminds me of a slimy used car salesman", etc.)
(You Romniacs back off. I would have voted for him. Just enjoy a laugh once in a while.) |
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Wow! On the book, Huckabee's face is bigger than his name which is bigger than the book's title. I think it is Huckabee's humility that draws me to him! (sheesh) |
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can't disagree with him on anything . i'll vote for him ,we would of won had he been the nominee .i like palin as well and bobby jindal these are our up nd coming stars |
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I am definitely on board with Huckabee. I do hope he runs. If he does, he has my vote and my financial support.
Cheers,
YK
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Quite frankly I think Huckabee and Romney both have their place in the party and both have positives and negatives. Quit viewing everything through an all or nothing lens.
No wonder conservatives are losing elections as they play "I'm more conservative than you are!" game.
Oh and BTW you Romney haters...get over yourself! Romney's father as well as Romney help to build the conservative movement and they have earned their seat at the table.
So has Huckabee and I enjoy hearing what he has to say. This country good use a good dose of his old fashioned wisdom. |
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Let’s see…
A whiny, backbiting, divisive, bitter, acidic populist who held the social right hostage to bludgeon Romney long after the man dropped out, just to make sure the guy didn’t get picked as VP, THEN continued the barrage to cauterize any future thoughts of a Mitt candidacy…
or
A young, effervescent, decent, gracious, hard-hitting, corruption-busting current governor with an 80% approval rating in her state who practices what she preaches under the most trying of circumstances, offers to babysit the children of the woman who has been savaging her every Saturday Night for weeks with no hint of resentment, and electrifies crowds?
Humm . . . . .
Bring it on Huckaphony!! |
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They ignore all the dirt on Huckabee and pile onto anything concerning the slightest bit untoward about Romney, like rabid dogs. You're wasting your time trying to reason with them because they have been stealing all the Kool Aid they could get their hands on for the last few years and have totally lost their abiltiy to reason anything other than their blind love for their Huckabee God.
There fixed it for you!! |
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You must go to the same church as Huck. You both show the same bigotry. Huck is the one who wants to be the conservative leader. For someone with no ethics, is dishonest, can't tell the truth, he's gonna have a hard time. Everyone has moved onto Palin now. Huck is dead in the water so him mocking her won't make an ounce of difference.
Let me guess though, you like him. I guess you may even share the same values. He's an ugly man with an ugly personality.
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all the dirt on Romney and pile onto anything concerning the slightest bit untoward about Huckabee, like rabid dogs. You're wasting your time trying to reason with them because they have been stealing all the Kool Aid they could get their hands on for the last few years and have totally lost their abiltiy to reason anything other than their blind love for their Romney God. |
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First, I have to give Matt props when he posts a relatively even handed post about Huckabee. I haven't seen too many from him, but when he does, it's important to note it.
Second, it seems the tenor and substance of the posts here seem to support Huckabee's assertion regarding an essentially libertarian wing of the party that believes it holds the right to deem some people true conservatives and others not. A crazy uncle may think he's King Henry VIII, but that doesn't make it so. The more libertarian wing of the party may think they are the end-all, be-all of conservatism, but their's is not the only voice at the table. We'll see what happens over the next 4 years, but right now, Huckabee appears to be one of the major leaders of the movement going forward, with a couple major outlets to express himself, a sizable portion of the movement recognizing him as their leader of choice, and a strong grassroots organization he built from the ground up. It'll be a fun ride.
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It's too bad that Huck won't be making a bid in 2012.
To all you Mitt mourners. Try to understand that it's not his alleged Mormon religion that a lot of us didn't like, it was his conversion of necessity, from the moderate, social liberal governor to the ultra right wing presidential candidate. Standing for gay marriage and abortion as Mitt did as governor of Massachusetts, goes against the Mormon faith. So who's the Mormon basher?
Gov. Mike Huckabee was the same guy as Candidate Mike Huckabee. He just didn't have control of Real Clear Politics like Mitt did.
Please don't think that Romney could possibly have beaten Obama, not a chance. Not only would Obama have linked him to Bush, he would have had a field day with his endless flip flops. |
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Well I guess the Huck can count on your support. Not too many others. As for your claim that Huck will be a dynamic force if he chooses, well it ain't his choice. You Huckbots need to understand you can't be a leader if nobody follows. From the conservative movement there ain't nobody following.
We're all behind Pailn now and Huck can mock her and joke about her, but she will be the force he can only dream about. He's an ugly man with an ugly personality. |
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FORMER gov. hucka geewhiz will not be a force in 12. He'll be a laughing stock. A sure free pass for any democrate to slide into office again. Palin will help grease the skids, if she runs too. Both have very narrow and shallow followings. You are proof of the shallow part.
Enjoy the next 4. It should be a fun ride. |
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You 'get' it? get what? That we don't want this guy near any buttons? That we don't trust him? That he talks out of both sides of his mouth and other cavity openings? Romney is showing his classy side, as usual. He's working hard to help the GOP rebuild. Newt is working hard to rebuild the GOP. Palin will NOT be our next leaderette. Huckabee will not be in the GOP in a few weeks. He'll start his own party, with his small army of cheeseheads. |
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you can call him any names you like, still does not make them factual.
Governor Huckabee, if he so chooses, will be a dynamic force in the 2012 GOP primaries, persons of your tripe not withstanding.
You and those like you may engage in all of the character assassination you want, the Governor's support recognizes you for what your are. |
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If 378 out of the 476 employees of the Stover Candy Company buy his book along with all of your other friends, I say God Bless America. Thank God for capitalism. Michaael Moore makes movies that lots of people pay to see. Larry Flynt sells lots of magazines.
Myself, I probably won't buy it, but I'm sure Mr. Huckabee and all the little Huckabees thank you and Stover Candy.
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Huckabee needs to take his own advice.
'Do the right thing!'
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The point is that Huck wants to be a leader in the conservative movement but conservatives don't like him. They don't want him to represent them. Huck knows this and is whinning about it. We just want him to go away.
If you aren't conservative, then you won't care. If you are conservative, then you are a fool. But please don't preach he is honest, truthful, or conservative because he ain't any of the above. He's an ugly man with an ugly personality. |
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Stop embarrassing yourself.
Mike Huckabee keeps exposing his true self.
Mean spirited nasty little man who jabs others with a smile on his face.
I tried to give him the benefit of the doubt but every time he opens his mouth, he is cutting down someone else (Generally someone who is a much better person.)
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you certainly know how to state the facts!!! |
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He will sell at least 378 out of the 476 employees of the Stover Candy Company where I work, and another 43 from my son's catering service, and oh around 200 or so from the hospital where my daughter works, plus at least 150 from my BAPTIST GRACE church congregation, and that's just in my little 'ole home town. Wanna try again?? |
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"that ad never ran on TV and the media never ran it either."
ed2,
Put the bong down and step away!!! |
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Count on Eduardo Tambien and Laura.
They'll buy it. |
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that ad never ran on TV and the media never ran it either. |
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Remember that time Huckabee denied his own public record and called Romney a liar for mentioning it? Remember that time Huck was too classy to show the deceptive negative ad he made against Romney, then showed it to the national press knowing they would give it lots of free airplay? You know, the time he exposed himself as either a total idiot or a complete hypocrite? That time? Man that was awesome! |
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eddie too acts more like a liberal--attack the messenger rather than deal with the facts. Why is it every time I see or hear Huckabee talk, I feel like he is trying to sell me a used car? |
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Not hatred of the guy. Just intense dislike for the charlatan. He is no conservative. I see him as a weasel. I am angered at his jokes on Sarah Palin. I am angered at his history of beating up on conservatives then pretending to be one. I am angered at the fools who fall for it (assuming they are also conservatives).
He uses the terms "truth" and "honest" but doesn't live it. Look at his ethics history for goodness sakes. Seems to me he uses those words when he is stabbing other people. Seems to me it's not too harsh when it gets used on him.
If you find his ethics unpleasant or if you find criticism of his history unpleasant, then you should be the one to shove off. I won't be silenced.
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What's your point? Huckabee claimed the book was to "serve as a background to provide a context for talking about the future of the conservative movement and the GOP". I merely make the point that conservatives can't stand him. Even when left with the choice of him or McCain, (as much as conservatives hated McCain), they went his way.
Look, read the articles for goodness sake. Even Huck is complaining conservative Christian leaders WOULDN'T support him. So again, what's your point? |
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take your hatred and incoherence somewhere else. People on TH are not easily fooled by foolish bombast. |
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What's your point? Huckabee claimed the book was to "serve as a background to provide a context for talking about the future of the conservative movement and the GOP". I merely make the point that conservatives can't stand him and even left with the choice of him or McCain, as much as they hated McCain, they went his way. Look, read the articles for goodness sake. Even Huck is complaing conservative Christian leaders would support him. So again, what's your point? |
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When I read what Laura has to say, I wonder if we are talking about the same person. I wonder if she even knows the guy she says she supports.
Laura, just google Huckabee and ethics. You will read that it took a lawsuit to stop him taking $70k worth of furniture donated to the Govenor's mansion. He accepted gifts worth over $130k. His lawsuit said the rules aginst the gifts were unconstitutionally vague. He is so petty, he even had a wedding registry for people to donate gifts, netting him $7k.
He received over $60k from a non profit Action America but has refused to disclose the benfactors who financed the group. He was getting ethics complaints as late as this year. No other candidate apart from McCain had ethics issues. The man stunk.
He is not honest. he is not candid. He is not truthful. He is an ugly petty man with an ugly personality. |
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that there is no convervative party. Huckabee is a republican and should be trying to get them back on track. And you certainly don't do that by criticizing everyone who ran against you or every religious leader who endorsed those who ran against you. Get over it! The campaigning needs to stop.
And Huckabee is a fine one to talk about conservatism. What a hypocrite! Big government, big unions, big tax and spending, big entitlements, corruption and ethics violations are part of his record as governor. That Chip Saltzman could support a guy like that should basically eliminate him as a serious candidate for the RNC.
Defeating Huckabee would have been a piece of cake for the Democrats should he have won the nomination. The ethics violations, the 1000 pardons and commutations, the net tax increases inspite of his claim of 94 tax cuts. Republicans would have been laughed at for putting this guy up against their guy. |
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are both the most competent and viable contenders for the GOP POTUS nomination in 2012.
I would be happy with the success of either one.
At least they are honest, have integrity and would lead in the best interests of "the people".
Go Mike, Go Sarah.
Let the losers support Romney, et al. |
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Romney people. Sore losers who hate Huck because he kept Romney from winning, well........ANYTHING!
You talk about Huck being a sore loser, but you are all losers because you act so high and mighty calling him down for telling the truth. I guess ya'll have just been too 'dumbed down' to handle the truth! You're all a very sad and pathetic bunch indeed. |
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no one knows what you mean when you use the word conservative. It has as many meanings as people there are who call themselves conservative.
As a "term of art" it is as meaningless as christian. |
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Conservatism is an ideology. Political parties are not ideological. They are pragmatic.
Governor Huckabee is a Republican. He is just as much a Republican as anyone posting here.
New York has an established Conservative Party for whatever it is worth, since conservatism is an ideology. If you are so hep up what you define as conservatism, start your own political party. The Republican Party is not a conservative or a liberal political party. However, many conservative leaning people are Republicans. |
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He is no conservative. He complains that conservative Christian leaders don't support him, conservative columnist certainly don't support him, just about the whole conservative movement doesn't like him. Even when it was down to him and McCain, he still couldn't get the conservatives to support him.
Apart from being King Weasel, he was a McCain soul brother. Prior to the Primaries when they both re-invented themselves, both beat up on the conservative GOP, they both opposed tax cuts proposed by the GOP, both supported illegal immigrants, both had serious ethics issues. What about the real tell all line from the Huck - "The two most honorable campaigns made it to the end." I think I'm gonna puke. But even McCain couldn't stand the stink of the Huck and never seriously considered him for VP.
Well he sees Sarah Palinas a threat now and is making her the butt of his jokes. I saw it myself. He is an ugly man with an ugly personality. |
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I just wish person ambition wasn't bigger than doing what is right for the party. Huckabee is smart, but I can see right through him. He reminds me exactly of Bill Clinton. A little too slick for his own good.
Just like McCain, the notion of being POTUS blinds those like Huckabee, McCain, John Kerry, etc... These are the types of people that just aren't believable and care more about power than anything else. McCain had no charisma at all, Huckabee has too much and it's noticable if you listen to him for more than 10 minutes. John Kerry like McCain is just flat out boring and without substance.
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I had just started to sort of warm up to the Huckster, after watching his show a couple of times. He comes across reasonably level headed on the program. Then this book comes out and he exposes himself as just another whiner and excuse maker....
Go away. Far far away. |
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i also agree with most of the comments on huckabee. i will not buy or read his book and although i watch fox i have not and do not watch huckabee. we are not whining just stating facts. the reason huckabee got so far in the primaries the msm kept propping him up they loved him coz gosh darn he was just so funny and nice. meanwhile huckabee and msm was doing everything to insure romneys defeat. i didnt see huckabee going around campaigning for mccain like romney did. not whining just facts.i agree i hope huckabee gets his 15 minutes and goes away with his money from book deal and new show. |
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and that's what we don't like about him. |
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This guy & his agenda are like Mr. Cellophane from the movie "Chicago!"
He's already started his campaign for 2012, contrary to his "telling the truth" that he has not.
This man was a major factor in getting a loser candidate nominated for the GOP this year. He obviously was and still is very bitter.
His FOX TV show is pathetic. The same is most likely true about his book. There is indeed something about this guy that suggests he is a manipulative, deceptive phony.
Plus, it appears that some of the president-elect's audicity of arrogance has rubbed off on him to have boldy suggested HIS campaign manager get the nod for GOP chairman.
I join in the previously posted prayer: Dear God, please make Mike Huckabee disappear. Amen
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Spare us from this Elmer Gantry Goober. Every time I see him he's in bib overalls and a plaid shirt, no matter what he's wearing. He's a social conservative and liberal on everything else. Ban him from the National Scene. |
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is a charlatan. Phoney preacher hustler who used his "Social Conservative" mantle to separate the party. Oh yes, and threw in the Fair Tax for good measure..whatever. I will vote for Borat before voting for this psuedo conservative. Thanks to him and his blind bible thumpin sheep; we have Chairman Obama. His book belongs right where is campaign ended, in the trash. I will not read it.
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What is it not to like about this man? Maybe it's telling the truth that those dummies can't stand. Let me give you bashers some advise. Stand aside for the tide that will overtake you and it's name is Mike. |
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Please NOT former Utah Gov and current Bush Sec of health and human services. Micheal O. Leavitt!!!
The man is NOT a conservative. |
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more than trying to gain favor for furtherance of his political career. He figures name recognition via FOX news will help him in his next run.
Both his campaign and Romney's did no favor for the GOP while they were backstabbing the McCain/Palin ticket. |
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I can not imagine how this fellow ever reached the national stage. I wish he would be dropped from his tv show, the news in general, visits on H & C, etc. and find a church in which he can deliver the word as he sees it. |
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You all remind me of a lynchin' party. One guy gets all drunked up and yells....hang him! And then all the others jump in and begin shouting yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Pathetic!
I for one don't see what he did that was so bad. All the candidates were allowed to bash the hell out of each other in the primaries, and why should it have to stop there? All of a sudden everyone is supposed to just forget the misgivings they had about the others and put the fake, smiley face back on again? BALONEY!(Balogna)
Everyone is human and has their likes and dislikes of people they deal with, and Huckabee simply believes that it isn't wrong to tell the truth about those he ran with. Everything I read, about everyone he said it about, was true. It isn't as if he is lying about them
On Hannity and Colmes last night Huck clarified that he wants to get the Conservative party back on track and merely pointed out what some of the things were that had helped cause it to veer in the first place. I really don't see a problem here. And if he doesn't run for prez again, at least he will have a bright career in television, radio writing books or any other venture he chooses.
Don't count him out yet just because he tells the truth. I personally loooooove truth tellers, but I guess there are those of you who have lived with the liars in politics so long, you just don't know what to make of a person who tells the truth. |
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Gee Huckabee seems to be irritating a lot of people. Good job! In today's world you can only tell how good you're doing, by how many people are angry w/you (b/c that means you're not just telling people what they want to hear).
& every time I hear a Mitt fan cry, it makes me happy inside. You losers couldn't get the job done for your candidate, & your candidate could come up w/good enough ideas to best the primary field. Whine all you want, but if Mitt was as good as you want to believe, he would have won, even w/a "split conservative vote". |
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As if his TV show isn't torture enough. |
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i'd like to see that metrosexual mitt,versus huck who's actually had make his own way in the world. it would be a short one |
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Romney vs. Huckabee.
And no Huck, you cannot have Chuck Noris as your tag team partner. |
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"He reiterated the notion that if Fred Thompson weren't in South Carolina, that he would have won the state -- and probably the nomination." And if Huckabee weren't in all the other primaries splitting the convservative vote, Romney would probably have won those state primaries and the nomination. |
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Now that's pretty pathetic, Widdle Huckie, writing books blaming everyone BUT YOUR DELUDED SELF FOR YOUR FAILURES! But with your new whiny book, maybe God will help you win a second term...Oh, ummm, that's right, despite your revelation that you were God's chosen in 2008, per the video below, it is actually Obama who will become our next president... I'd say it's time to give it a rest ol' Huckabee. Your jealousy of Mitt is shameful and unchristian to say the least!
Huckabee: "Divine Providence Helps My Poll Numbers":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSQNSlUUoOc&feature=related
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Well, poor ol' Huck, still eaten up with jealousy about Mitt Romney and others. Such a small man, petty and smirking all the while lying to your face in a believealbe manner. It wasn't enough to get past the election primary and smear Mitt and Fred, he's not content with his "success" on Fox, he's still got to stick a knife in his opponents and get wealthy (if enough people buy this smuck's book) at the same time. |
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Not him, either, who else do we have to choose from...
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Dear God, please make Mike Huckabee disappear. Amen. |
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Well, now I know who we shouldn't support for RNC chair.
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There is something about this guy that I cannot trust.
He's a politician first and foremost. He seems to revel a little too much in the "preacher" title.
I'm tired of this guy already.
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then I will have to join the Green party, or the yellow party, or the brown party, or the . . . you get the drift.
What has happened to our Republican party? ? ?
I guess that it is good that we work through all the RINOs and Preachers, and Fleas & ticks and other vermin. Maybe the party will once again become something worth joining. |
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The bigots will never get my vote. I'll also not be lining the preachers pockets with a purchase of his screed. Too many lies already from the experts I have read today. Huck is not humble. As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord, and not someone like this guy. |
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I can't find much information about the man, but from what I can find, everything indicates he's a conservative. And an endorsement coming from Huck, when compared against the likes of Azunis or Steele... well, the unknown-to-me quantity is becoming more appealing by the second.
Best of luck Huck on the book sales! I know I'll be purchasing a copy! And may we bring some common sense back to the GOP. |
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Jon Huntsman Jr. Current gov. of Utah. Along with Mike Levatt, former Utah gov AND current Bush cabnet secretary. I feel that we should not go with Chip Saltsman. I don't want anymore mormon haters in this party than we already have. |
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And I make no apologies for it. I even have a photo of us together on my desk, taken at a news conference where yours truly got in the last question and the only one to get a "good question" remark from him. Sorry. Had to put that in. It was cool. Now, back to earth for a moment. I think the book is going to be a great soul-searching one for us all, from what he and others have said so far. Never, never underestimate this man. He has earned a place at the Republican table of the illuminati, but it is my hope that he will help bring some sense and direction back to the GOP. |
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