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For Hugh's breathless, "Romney Falling!" post, describing how this was all part of the Romney Central Command Plan. You know, redifine yourself as a social conservative spend a ton of money to win the Straw Poll, lose the frontrunner status right before the election (just to take the pressure off!), and prevail at the end. |
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"New Ras Poll
The new Ras national poll has Huck 21, Romney 20, Rudy 19.
Romney can now run a national campaign and build on his speech. This is the highest Romney has ever been. This is a breakout of his normal pattern."
Those are the numbers from the Ras MI poll. The national numbers (right below on the RCP 'latest polls'; I think maybe you misread the MI numbers as national) show Huck 21, Rudy 20; then Mitt 13 and Fred & McCain 11.
Those were yesterday's #s, that is. Today's Rasmussen daily numbers are: Rudy 22, Huck 19; then Fred & Mitt 13 and McCain 10. Makes sense; Fred stands to benefit most by any Huck stumble.
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Just want to let you know, the hindu friends I have, who enjoy the same freedoms to practice their religion right here in the United States, have identified Hugh Hewitt as the reincarnation of Joseph Goebbels.
I'm sure the founding fathers and Mitt's speech to include everyone is really germain to our discussions.
But I was just talking to Mahkarand and he said that the entire Hindu community has confimred it, Hugh Hewitt is Joseph Goebbels. They couldn't get a clear read on Mitt, he's so slick, but early indications are that he may just be a distant cousin to Adolf...I wouldn't want to go that far to compare Mitt to Hitler.
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Romney has a proven history of cleaning up a disaster:
ONLY sports fans know how Mitt took over the Olympics, worked with international contingent and saved the olympics from the worst disater and presented one of the best Olympic events in history.
That is all the evidence I need to Support Romney
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HUCK
is true blue liberal flashing a bible:
HE IS PRO all benefits for ILLEGAL ALIENS
He has a history of taxing every activity he sees:
Under HUCK we will be pushing 2 for English in the black hole of voice prompt:
The pro Amnesty for illegals is a disaster for the future of this ONCE GREAT NATION:
We need a kick butt: ENFORCE AND REFORM President and HUCK is NOT the right candidate:
YES YES: HE GOES TO CHURCH: BANGS THE BIBLE
the right wing of the GOP keep driving people out of the party with their single issue agenda:
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I voted for GW BUSH, and I do know he was better than Gore or Kerry: I respect him for his Moral Character and Religious convictions. I an still in shock about his bad judgment on so many issues. "AMNESTY" for illegal Aliens was his lowest point.
The Iraq war is a point in History as is every other War:
THE biggest disaster and permanent damage to this great country and its ultimate destruction is the invasion and burden of ILLEGAL Aliens:
Huckabee has OBVIOUS flawed policies and history beyond his "Preacher type Religion" which seems to be the only vital qualification of the extreme right wing of our Party:
1. Huckabee cannot beat Hillary: she will wipe the floor with him:
2. OUR party will be destroyed again by "SINGLE ISSUE extreme right wing voters who are so blinded by their EXTREME RIGHT WING RELIGIOUS agenda that they can't be realistic and continue to drive droves of people out of the party.
GOVERNMENT should NEVER be the advancement of a specific religious agenda: THE character of the country should dictate good moral character, practices and judgement: NO LAWS can force out citizens to come to good moral character, practices, and judgment.
We can continue to elect weak leaders and watch our society go farther down the path to complete pornification: Not to rub salt into the wounds of the extreme right wing of our party:
HOWEVER: FOLEY and LARRY CRAIG keep popping up
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So it comes down to the relationship between the Republican elites and the base. True, the base has plenty of Foxnews conservatives. And in other times, whether Buchanan in 96 or McCain in 2000, the elites were able to put a kibosh on an uprising in SC. Good disciplined voters in the Palmetto state. They don't backtalk their bosses.
This time may be different. I don't know. The base also has plenty of true blues, and they think for themselves. Like I said, unless a guy is just washing his brain with Foxnews/talk radio propaganda, comes a point when a fellow believes his lying eyes.
If I were Mitt, I'd make common cause with Huck. I'd approach him and form a Mike/Mitt ticket, in that order, to beat back Rudy--who, honestly, is a disgrace. If you lose, Mitt can try again in four. If you win, Mitt has the inside track in eight. But Huck needs to be on the top of the ticket. Only then would Americans believe that Republicans are serious about making things right. With Mitt on top, its just more blah blah blah from the Republican elites--the very idiots who drove our country into the ground these past several years. |
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It's interesting, when you look at the candidates, you see the divisions in the GOP. Mitt and FDT are the establishment candidates--at least, what is the contemporary Republican establishment. Nobody in the whole nexus of Foxnews and talk show hosts and pundits and other assorted blowhards would have a problem with either MR or FT.
Ron Paul represents the libertarian strain--the genuine small government types, not the phony baloney Republican "small government" types. Rudy represents the secular authoritarian wing. Traditionally, these people have made common cause with cultural conservatives, although they don't really believe it. The authoritarians believe in power more than anything. These are guys like Bill Kristol and Pat Robertson and Sean Hannity. And McCain represents the small, almost vanished, Eisenhower wing of the party.
Which leads to Huck. Huck is fiscally moderate, in addition to culturally conservative. He does not engage in that "small government" flimflam and true blue conservatives appreciate that. True blue conservatives do not believe in relying on government, but they could envision a scenario or two in which a friend might need some help. And in any case, they know that only Ron Paul is serious about shrinking government. The other guys--its just part of the mantra.
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I've said elsewhere that I see Huck's rise as a revolt of true blue conservatives against Foxnews conservatives. Foxnews conservatives are tightly knitted to talk shows, the pundits, and other assorted inside-the-belway types. They'll buy what the Republican elites are selling. Problem is, the Republican elites have done a bad job governing.
Which leads to the true blues. They choose to believe their lying eyes rather than their Republican leaders. They see Iraq. They see New Orleans. They see cronyism, government that enriches the Republican elites and their friends. They see fiscal mismanagement. They see an eroding national reputation. So rather than blame everyone else, like the Republican elites do, the true blues think that maybe there might be a problem with where the current generation has taken conservatism.
Every time a guy like Hugh yelps about Huck, far from hurting Huckabee with the true blues conservatives, it actually boosts him. The Republican leadership is down to the Foxnews conservatives. Everyone else, from right to left, pretty much thinks they're full of it--kinda like the liberal elites in the 70s. |
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Why would Huckster's supporters bolt? After all, he's a Conservative's Conservative - the man is totally without a soul and certainly doesn't have a shred of compassion, at least not outside his little like-me bubble. |
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... But honestly, I don't care if his majesty won't grace us with his presence. You're wrong on Romney's drop in the polls and you're wrong again about these "spontaneous" stories about your man's opponents. |
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The new Ras national poll has Huck 21, Romney 20, Rudy 19.
Romney can now run a national campaign and build on his speech. This is the highest Romney has ever been. This is a breakout of his normal pattern.
Huck should start to fade as all of the negatives hit him. He has been relentlessly puffed for the last month and his numbers show the pumping. |
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Proving that social conservatives are mindless idiots.
They'd go for a communist dominatrix if he/she was anti-abortion. |
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I'm for Huckabee.
I'm invested mostly in tax-free funds, I have no daughters, I want to learn Spanish, I don't care if he DOES remove some of the clutter from the White House, and I'll probably be able to meet the forthcoming federal bodyfat requirements.
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You know, Hugh,1992 was a very long time ago. A lot of people were unsettled in their opinion about Aids and HIV. It was confusing and there were lots of silly notions abounding about what caused the spread of AIDS.
Huckabee may have stayed on the side of caution, but that was a safer choice at the time.
To be honest, Hugh, the difference between Plastic Mitt and Mike Huckabee is that Mike probably mows his own lawn. Even Mitt's gardener said Mitt lied about talking to him about the illegals. Said it never happened! Romney's lawngate. News at 10:00. |
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The IA race is a classic case of both candidates exploiting their strengths and weaknesses.
If Romney had not spent early. The race would be crowded and Huck would be no where. Fred, Rudy and maybe McCain would have a much greater presence than they do. Fred does seem to be cranking up now but I have yet to see Fred run anything that approaches a decent campaign.
Romney spending gives him a very good shot at IA. Huck is exploiting anti Mormon sentiments. He is also exploiting his own religious ties.
Huck has exploited one of the few strengths that he had, his ties within the ministerial associations. He also is a good retail campaigner and has worked hard to be the anti Romney. Every other candidate has left him alone to max out his positives. Rudy wants the conservative field fragmented. Romney wants Huck to balance and kill Fred in the South and Fred is just plain slow.
Romney has given a speech partly to innoculate himself from attack by the anti Mormons. If they do it now, it has a strong probability of back firing.
Huck is now being attacked. That should not be a great surprise. The aids attack is a media issue that they care about. The rape/murder case has legs because it sets up 3 effective long run assaults that will plague Huck all the way to the convention or his withdrawl.
1. He plays fast and loose with the truth. He can not be trusted and is like Bill Clinton.
2. He is soft on crime. As Governor he let tremendous numbers of criminals out of jail. The rape/murder case emphasizes the negative consequences to the voters of his compassion and naivety.
3. The reason he let Drumond and the other criminals out is his "identity", his religion. His compassion can be used against him. It causes him to make bad decisions. He is not a tough leader. He is gullible, naive and to unprepared or to inexperienced to be POTUS. |
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...when you're at 39% support in IA! LOL. I predict the next "wall" Huck will hit is when he starts exceeding 50% in some polls; HH will be quick to point out that he will now have more downward room than upward room.
Nobody has accused Romney or Tancredo of hitting that wall yet. There's plenty of growth potential for those guys. |
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This is a deadly issue for Huck. He's not to be trusted.
The victim that was a relative of Clinton went face to face with Huckabee to confront him. You Clinton haters should be ashamed and if Hillary goes toe to toe with Huck, she'll slaughter him in a debate with this.
HH is wrong about everything, but right that Huck is going to have problems backpedaling from his Clinton hatred that allowed a rapist free to assault and murder. All you Huck supporters better get rid of your blinders. |
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Huck has "hit a wall," is that right Hugh? That's just what you wish would happen. This makes you look amateurish. Rush or Hannity would never write that. They would never so nakedly expose themselves (and wrongly, I might add) in a primary season.
If you're gonna make a statement like that, at least make it at a time when the poll numbers back up what you're saying. |
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A game of over the line broke out and nobody told me.
Wasn't 92 just a bit late in the day for alarmist policy recommendations? There is just a whiff of populism don't you think?
I mean we had a pretty good idea by then didn't we that Aides wasn't an air borne contagion.
I never did care for the exploitation of a disease to make political points--one way or the other. Though the left was far more adept in the game of political aides. Playing games with public health is, well, just a bit cynical. |
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...On how the AIDS lobby corrupted public morality and scientific research.
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"Besides a quarantine, Huckabee suggested that Hollywood celebrities fund AIDS research from their own pockets, rather than federal health agencies.
'It is difficult to understand the public policy towards AIDS. It is the first time in the history of civilization in which the carriers of a genuine plague have not been isolated from the general population, and in which this deadly disease for which there is no cure is being treated as a civil rights issue instead of the true health crisis it represents.'
When asked about AIDS research in 1992, Huckabee complained that AIDS research received an unfair share of federal dollars when compared to cancer, diabetes and heart disease."
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Truth to power, Huck!
I don't know how it is today, but in CMB the mid-nineties, unless you could somehow attach your research to the AIDS bandwagon, it was very hard to get funding.
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Is he is going to tackle the federal budget and bloated programs.He's going to run the country like a business which is what we need.This country is headed towards nannystatism and it has to be stopped. Look at what the dems want to do as an alternative. Spending hundreds of billions on healthcare, illegal immigratnts. global warming, forgiving student loans if you go to work for the government.Taking parental rights away.Taking people's firplaces for crying out loud and stripping people's rights on what to eat.Giving felons thier voting rights back.Giving gays special rights under the law. Opening up more grounds for lawsuits under workman's comp.Stripping capital from the markets with obscene taxes. Putting regulations and penalities on so called polluters. giving unions more power.The unions want Wal mart in the worst way. walmart will shut down first causing huge inflation throughout the economy. We have to pick the best person to fight this. Huck won't in a lot of cases. he's a proven deal cutter. if not romney then Rudi as a fall back position in spite of his social views.Wasting billions on creating so called green jobs because that's all our college grads are qualified to do.Freaking wind farms on every corner.These people are more of a threat to this country than the terrorists are.People would have foight to the death in the 60's to stop communism yet here we are on the verge of a communist state from within.The border will be wide open with these people in charge.They will get more benefits than Americans themselves. |
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This is Huckabee's "test". Every emerging candidate has one. He'll pass it or not. I tend to think he will. And the more I see him ganged up on around here by Romney apologists, the more I'm pulling for him.
As for Romney and his "great" speech, you must be kidding. A plate of platitudes indifferently delivered. And George Bush as a backdrop didn't help. It doesnt matter: there is no way the current zeitgeist will accept a Romney, or a Thompson or a McCain for president. Not going to happen. It's Giuliani or Huckabee, or a democrat. Each is a happy warrior, and each his own man in a way the others cannot even comprehend, but the electorate feels. And a dash of populism is precisely what conservatives need right now, or rather what the nation needs from a conservative.
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Jorge Thanks, McCain is a good man done wrong by the elitists. Unlike some candidates (not that we would mention any names) he has been tried by fire
Goodnight, Mitt, Huck is second in the national polls. |
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...and nobody is listening, does he make a sound? |
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But Hugh do you really think Social Conservatives are going to care what Huck said about Aids and Gays, they most likely thought that at the time and might think that now. Romney is a social conservative, remember he said that pandering to that base. I enjoy Hugh defending the gay community and Aids Victims. You don't get it Hugh Romney is done |
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Hi, richard_223:
Enjoy your comments. McCain apparently went to ground just in time, right before Hugh's withering artillery would have shredded him. Now that Hugh is spewing his ever-more-desperate fire to the south, McCain is ready to flank and take the hill by surprise.
Say goodnight, Mitt.
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Huck is blasted for stating a sensible plan for a communicable disease. Gov. Bill Clinton sold Arkansas prioners' blood infected with Hep B and HIV to Canadians up until the Spring of 92'! Years after testing was available and used by responsible blood banks. At least 3000 people (including their family members)who received the blood products, came down with AIDS and died.This is probably what Vince Foster had to commit suicide over.
This is the difference in scrutiny of Republicans verses Dems. |
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gentlemanscholar -
Speech, did someone give a speech? No one here is talking about a speech. (g)
Jorge - McCain is still around? I thought Hugh's attacks on this war hero drove him from the campaign? How can he still be around after being hit with the Hewitt attack machine? I don't understand. |
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I'm getting tired of Hugh's constant attacks. He thought Harriet Miers was just fine for the Supreme Court, and h bashed any conservatives that dared to differ with his judgment. But it's OK to attack a Republican that, at the moment, is leading in the polls in Iowa and in one national poll. What if Huckabee becomes the nominee? What will Hugh have to say about him then?
I do not think that Huckabee would be the best candidate for the GOP next year -- but if he is the nominee, I'm going to have to vote for him over anyone the Dems might offer.
We do need to look at his record carefully -- just as we have been doing with the other candidates. But Hugh is clearly going over-the-top in culling the internet for any and every negative story about Huckabee. Moreover, Hugh shows absolutely no humility nor any sense of fallibilism about his political judgments -- as evident in his earlier comments about Romney's "speech" and anyone who would deign to disagree that it was the greatest speech since the Gettysburg address. |
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The AIDS quote won't hurt Huckabee but the partdoned rapist, AR tax increases and immigration stance will. |
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I will mark your words along with another Romney Blogger earlier...remember
"Pride goeth before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall." |
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The ACLU would have a fit along with the gays. If they were stuck somewhere their privacy would be over and everyone would know they had AIDS and they would face social isolation from society in more ways than one. It could also be a false incarceration argument.But that isn't the point,people knew back then is was mostly an STD.along with blood tranfusion. If he mentioned gays along with AIDS he knew the connection so his explanation doesn't hold water.It fact it was an overt view that gays and AIDS were connected.The idea here isn't to turn evangelicals against Huck but to lower enthusiasm and turnout.The other thing to keep in mind is these same people voted for Pat Robertson in 1988 I believe, so Mitt losing here wouldn't be as damaging as the media wants you to believe.The thing is the media has the spin in place if Mitt runs the table in the early states.Huck will be the winner in Iowa no matter what because of the money Mitt spent there. New hampshire is in Mitt's back yard. His father was the gov. in Mich. No matter what Mitt does as he goes along the media will spin it negatively because they don't want him as the GOP nom. The strange thing is if they are convinced that people won't elect a Mormon they should be pushing for him to win.The problem is 60% of the country doesn't really pay that much attention to politics and they would vote on looks alone.That what has the libs scared. |
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Wow, Hugh will soon be into round the clock mudslinging at Huck. Is this what its all about? All in the quest for temporal political power that is as fleeting as the dust in a old man's cuff?
How does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul?
Hugh come back, remember those interviews you did in Searching for God in America. |
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Hugh has realized that the Romney, Inc. gravy train will not last much past early 2008, so he has to log all the billable hours that he can now, while the spigot is still flowing.
Huck in Iowa. McCain in NH.
2008 Republican ticket: McCain/Huck. Wins 58% popular vote, restores majority in at least one chamber.
Romney made the mistake of believing that appeal to North East Liberal Elites would translate to broad national appeal. Being a pro-choice, pro-homosexual Mormon. Riiiiiight...
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with the Holidays here the candidates have one week at most to keep up their NEGATIVE attacks things up...but from the feeling I get from this group you would spend your Christmas day putting up NEGATIVE ads...go ahead...people will resent politicians negative crap as Christmas gets closer. I think for Governor Huckabee it will be a VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS and God-willing a HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Half-Dead Fred better really move that bus arond the state to make up for lost time. Ahh it's a Wonderful life!!!! |
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using the aids issue to attack another repubublican- you people ARE DESPERATE. THAT IS NOT THE COALITION OF RONALD REAGAN. NICE TRY. GET REAL. ABSOLUTELY PATHETIC. |
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Good to see you are at least entertaining the likely conclusion of Huckabee winning Iowa. There is a rational perosn on this site. |
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conservatives will win the day against Huckabee!!! |
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It's not just Hugh, it's NUMERO UNO, Rush Limbaugh plus virtually EVERY OTHER CONSERVATIVE TALK RADIO SHOW HOST, Hannity, Medved, Prager etc etc plus DOBSON for God's sake.
Romney's speech hit the bulls eye, and these talk show guys are NOT going to back down on Mitt (over Hucker).
Romney put the Morman and religious issue on the table, thus diffusing it. Mission accomplished + the brilliant forwarding looking Reganesque speech.
As soon as we get over this Huck bump -- its Romney Romney Romney! (Remember ElRushbo, 25 million conservative listeners) |
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Longtime and wanted you to feel at home. :-)
"Seems beneath you" was the nicest thing you've ever said about me, Manfred! I'm feeling conflicted Ish-Shoes. |
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Mitt has peaked.
You guys are all missing something. Fred will pick up the Huck vote. Huck has also peaked and will bottom out by Jan. 3.
Fred will win Iowa.
MARK MY WORDS. |
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Naw, JSmith,
Hugh thinks working as a shill for Mitt instead of real journalism should be done for free. He and some of his other RINO buds must draw straws to see who can get the fastest most out-of-context points out first to bash Huckabee. They praise Reagan when they want to uplift their guy, but conveniently forget RR's 11th commandment in the process. Expect more of it, not less. It keeps them in a job.
P.S. Romney's candidacy would be better off without these guys, so let them rant. |
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You wrote..."perhaps what is worse, some of the most intense were avid Thompson supporters, who screamed bitterly if anyone mentioned his moderate record."
Now that's funny!
Fred is NOT a moderate, never has been, never will be. |
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Ah. The last refuge of a scoundrel -- the "so's-yer-mother" attack. It seems beneath you. But if you want to compare the Republican party to Castro, be my guest. |
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"If Huckabee wins Iowa, then it is easy to imagine Romney losing New Hampshire"
Really, is that easy for you to imagine? Rasmussen has Romney up 19 in NH and it is EASY for you to imagine him losing NH wo who, McCain?
Lol, you have a great imagination. |
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Instead of being attacked mercilessly for the next 30 days, that honor goes to Huckabee as the front-runner.
If Romney pulls off a win in Iowa now it really means something. It also motivates his voters who may have grown lethargic to really get out and vote.
Huck-a-boom is a dream come true for Romney. Maybe God is a Mormon after all :) |
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Briggsy ?
A liberal Democrat?
So many Liberal Democrats want Huckabee?
So funny to see 'richard_223', and others try to post comment after comment, on Hewitt's blog.
If they think Mr. Hewitt is so misguided, why are they here?
Making fun of the host they are visiting?
It really is quite amusing and revealing.
MikeS?
No one is talking about the Romney speech?
LOLOLOLOL !
the denial grows...
some of these comments remind one of the misguided mantra of the fools who thought it would be a good idea to boycott elections in order to enable the likes of Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi.
perhaps what is worse, some of the most intense were avid Thompson supporters, who screamed bitterly if anyone mentioned his moderate record.
now they seem to ignore all the concerns with the Huckabee record, liberal expression, and policy embarrassments.
Embarrassing...
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Huckabee increased spending by $4.61 billion. That is an increase of 65.3%, or 7.4% annually. This is three times the rate of inflation.
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was a Left Domain. That's what Hero of the Left World, Fidel has done to limit the plague in Cuba.
Bummer to be a Gay 'Catcher' in that Peoples Paradise. |
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By hitting him now, they lower the expectations for him to a level that will be easy to surpass. He's all set to be the comeback kid! |
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From the Politico article: Huckabee wrote on a questionnaire while running for U.S. Senate in 1992 that homosexuality is "aberrant" and "sinful."
So Hugh this is going to drive the conservative Christians in Iowa away from Huckabee? |
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Romney accomplished what he wanted. This is best for Romney because all the Mormon talk is out of the news and Romney's speech stands.
Huckabee's horrible record is in the news and that will not help him but isolate him. |
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That was a statement only Hitler could be proud of. BRAVO!!
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You hit on a key point earlier- no one's talking about the Romney speech anymore.
The most important part of that speech from Romney's POV is to get people taking about him, and that worked for all of one day.
But now we're all talking about Huck again. Even Hugh is spendin 99% of his time talking about Huck. At this point in the game, right before the caucus, this can only help Huckabee. |
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Hugh in response to the Globe finding that illegals are still landscaping Romney's yard:
"The Globe, like most agenda journalists in the MSM, go to great lengths to hurt Republicans and cover for Dems. We saw that in the two CNN YouTube debates, and we see it again in the Globe's coverage of Romney and Kerry."
Where's the outrage now Hugh?
Wouldn't being giddy over the latest MSM hit-jobs and selectively quoting the new media on Huckabee qualify YOU as just another "agenda journalist?" |
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Mitt is up because he is down.
He will win because he is losing.
Up is down, left if right.
And the clock struck thirteen o'clock. |
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If Mike would stand by his 1992 statement, he'd sure get my vote. If all carriers of any STD were quarantined, the diseases would all be eliminated within one or two generations at most. To be not "too cruel," put them all on one island and they can infect and reinfect each other to their heart's content. |
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Except maybe David Duke.
You can't find a serious thinker who suggested in 1992 that AIDS patients should be quarantined.
This will lose Huckabee the general election. AIDS didn't just come on the scene in 1992.
Magic retired from basketball and went on to make millions in business, he wasn't thrown in a Gulag.
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Mitt's the Bain guy remember - this is all part of his brilliant plan..spend enormous time and money in Iowa, build the organization there, lead in polls early, spend lots of own money, lose the lead, give a speech, go deeper in the hole..
Somewhere in the Team Romney camp there is a document that details this exact plan..its working to a T..
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This will catapult him to the nomination. The media has overplayed Huckabee the same way they did Dean.
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Did someone make a speech? LOL!
We all have things in our past we wish we hadn't said. The thinking in 1992 about AIDS and HIV were certainly less clear than today. There was much more fear. Remember Magic Johnson retiring because players didn't want to play against him? We've learned a lot since then. Back then people were wondering if mosquitoes could transfer the virus. Most people will figure this out for what it is. Except people like Hugh. |
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Hugh can't get a thing right about Huckabee. All I need to know about Mike I can just assume the opposite of whatever Hugh says. So far that's the way it's worked. I got news for ya Hugh, they should still be quarantined!! |
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Mitt will show some traction in the Iowa polls and will then become the Comeback Kid, showing his cool and character by battleing back against the Huck tide. He will be hailed by talk radio for his grit and gumption.
Of course that won't work either,just as the Mr. Conservative shtick did not. |
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My administration will be the first to have an overarching strategy for dealing with HIV and AIDS here in the United States, with a partnership between the public and private sectors that will provide necessary financing and a realistic path toward our goals. We must prevent new infections and provide more accessible care. We must do everything possible to transform the promise of a vaccine and a cure into reality.
Furthermore, I am proud that the United States has led the global battle against HIV/ AIDS. We have both a strategic interest as the world's only superpower and a moral obligation as the world's richest country to continue to do so until this scourge is a memory.
I supported the current Administration’s proposal to double our initial commitment from $15 billion to $30 billion over the next five years for the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). PEPFAR has already done an extraordinary amount of good, by providing drugs for over a million people and care for four-and-a-half million people, but it expires in 2008 and must be reauthorized. I support an increase in our commitment to the Global Fund. Through PEPFAR and the Global Fund, we can do our fair share to meet the Millennium Development Goals we affirmed in 2000, which include universal access to HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, and care.
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...since Hugh has become fond of ripping quotes out of their context. Read the whole thing...as Hugh USED to say...
News Release: Presidential Candidate, Governor Mike Huckabee Statement on AIDS Funding
December 08, 2007
Little Rock, AR - In the late 80’s and early 90’s we were still learning about the virus that causes AIDS. My concern, as a Senate candidate at the time, was to deal with the virus using the same public health protocols that medical science and public health professionals would use with any infectious disease.
Before a disease can be cured and contained we need to know exactly how and with near certainty what level of contact transmits the disease. There was still too much confusion about HIV transmission in those early years. Recall that in 1991, Kimberly Bergalis testified in front of Congress after contracting HIV from her dentist, and that summer a study was published showing that HIV was transmitted through breastmilk more easily than had been thought. But the federal government provided some guidelines: Also in 1991 the Centers for Disease Control recommended restrictions on the practice of HIV-positive health care workers.
At the time, there was widespread concern over modes of transmission and the possibility of epidemic. In the absence of conclusive data, my focus was on efforts to limit the exposure of the virus, following traditional medical practices developed from our public health experience and medical science in dealing with tuberculosis and other infectious diseases.
We now know that the virus that causes AIDS is spread differently, with a lower level of contact than with TB. But looking back almost 20 years, my concern was the uncertain risk to the general population – if we got it wrong, many people would die needlessly. My concern was safety first, political correctness last.
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How come two days later nobody is talking about the Speech, the most magnificient speech of all time? Its all forgotten, the talk today is Huck poll numbers and either building him up or knocking him down. |
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Clearly any Republican candidate with a history of comments bashing homosexuals cannot win the primaries. Wait... wait? Oh, sorry, someone just told me I'm wrong, and anti-gay comments will probably send Huck through the roof. |
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Hugh, you mean just like when they were supposed to all bolt over to Romney as you said several days ago after the Dumond and NIE thing came up that is, before his polls numbers exploded even further?
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So, does Romney campaign pay time and a half for working Saturday's, Hugh?
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Commentator Mark Halprin:
If Huckabee wins Iowa, then it is easy to imagine Romney losing New Hampshire — which means McCain could win New Hampshire. At which point, the three men who looked most likely to be the GOP nominee only six weeks ago (Romney, Giuliani, and Thompson), would be 0-2 in the first-in-the-nation contests. At which point, we would have have more of a wide-open situation than we have now, which is saying something.
I quote Yogi Berra often (”Prediction is difficult, especially about the future.”). In this instance, it is spot on.
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Did not anyone tell Halprin its a two man race, Mitt vs Rudy? Why does he not know the gospel according to Hugh? |
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