OK, Peach Pundit Fred Thompson backers…it ain’t gonna happen. He stayed in the race long enough to deny Huckabee a much needed South Carolina win, but I can’t imagine he’ll stay in after Florida, and he may drop out and try to throw his weight behind someone else before then in an effort to regain some of the credibility that he had and then watched erode as the race has gone on.
Consider this an open thread on Presidential politics. For all you Fred supporters, renounce now in the comments and we promise not to make fun of you for your prior bad judgement in the future. After all, it is kind of funny to think back on the glory days of Fredmania and note that Fred Thompson even had his own category here on PP.
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Debbie-
You are sooo wrong about HUCKABEE!
You are really clueless!
His base is SOLID and they will not cave.
He knows NOT to compromise and flip them off.
Bishop Mitt will not have our base.
Beltway McCain is out of touch.
Huckabee is the BEST CHOICE :
Check this out:
The Rev. Bill Owens, leader of the Coalition of African American Pastors, cited Huckabee’s strong track record as governor of Arkansas in promoting blacks to board posts and embracing racial reconciliation.
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/news/stories/2008/01/19/huckabeeendorse_0120.html
McCain nor Romney will get the BLACK VOTE!
BLACK LEADERS endorse MIKE HUCKABEE:
Wellington Boone
Harry Jackson
A host of Christian leaders including Janet Folger, president of Faith2Action, Rick Scarborough, founder and president of Vision America, the Rev. Don Wildmon, founder of the American Family Association and Tim and Beverly LaHaye, he the veteran activist the founder of Concerned Women for America are supporting former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee.
Debbie said:
” Huckabee can not attract outside of the evangelicals and he does garner all their support.”
ONCE AGAIN – Debbie is WRONG!!!!
The NEA has endorsed HUCKABEE… THIS IS HUGE!!!!!! Sara Huckabee ( the Governor’s Daughter) worked with the AK DOE and helped make that happen for him!
HUCKABEE appeals to a BROAD BASE!
HUCKABEE at the NEA!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hO4_5XOSzKk
This election is showing a disastrous schism between fiscal conservatives and the holy rollers. There are a few candidates who can heal the rift, but unfortunately they are not in the race.
The holy rollers and neocons have run the GOP and the country into financial oblivion to the point that it would take a miracle of the loaves and fishes several million fold over to make the available money meet $80 trillion in obligations.
At the moment GOP idiot-appointee Bernanke is performing this ‘miracle’ with a more than a few more zeroes onto the money supply added out of thin air.
Taxabee could not pull off such a miracle in Arkansas without a huge tax increase, but then he had no printing press, unlike the disastrous George W. Bush.
Vote Democratic in November. It is important.
Peach, and you are proud of the fact Huckabee is endorsed by the teachers union, NEA?
Peach, you are behind the times. I mentioned a long time ago that the Huckster was endorsed by the NEA. Shows that Huckabee is a RINO
Peach, If what you say is true about the Huckster, then what happened in South Carolina? What is happening in Florida?
JSM,
So…you would rather support a politician who pumps tons of money and support to Israel, but basically pisses on his own country?
Because that’s what you’re going to get from Romney, McCain, Huckabee, Thompson (oh wait) Guiliani, Clinton, and Obama.
I’m curious about when Israel became more important to Republicans than the United States.
Come on, Jace. Going a little too far, aren’t we?
No conservative puts Israel ahead of the US, but he understands that we need Israel to be our ally in the irrational world of the middle east.
I don’t think we’re going too far at all. Ron Paul hasn’t advocated abandoning Israel. In fact, he’s called out the other so-called “supporters” of Israel. If we support Israel, then why do we sell weapons to enemies of Israel?
Hell, Pat Buchanan was called an anti-semite by the Republican establishment because he didn’t want to base our foreign policy on Israel.
Our foreign policy should be based on our own rational self-intrests first. The government’s job is to its own people. Not the people of another country.
I don’t consider Ron Paul an anti-semite because of his support (or lack thereof) of Israel.
I consider Ron Paul an anti-semite for the years of comments he published in his newsletter that were both bigoted as well as anti-semetic.
I also consider Ron Paul to be anti-semetic for his refusal to denouce the various hate groups that were a large part of his early core supporters in his presidential race.
Duncan Hunter endorses Mike Huckabee:
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/01/23/hunter-endorses-huckabee/
Also, John Linder makes the case that Huckabee is a lot like Reagan:
http://www.gwinnettdailypost.com/main.asp?Search=1&ArticleID=10019&SectionID=17&SubSectionID=116&S=1
Dr. Paul is not all that big on denouncing folks, but he denounces bad ideas.
In every debate, he challenges the RECORD of the others versus what the GOP stands for.
When he speaks on the financial mess they all champion, it has been fun to see the others look down and uncomfortably shuffle their feet.
Jace, I figure you were all of 9 or 10 years old when Buchanan was so smeared. I was 40 and I will never forget it. It is one reason none of these absurd attacks on Ron Paul have caught me by surprise.
The nation has been destroyed financially by the GOP impostors and their enablers.
That is one thing they cannot pin on you, I, or Ron Paul.
The nation has been destroyed financially by the GOP impostors and their enablers.
No, that started in the 1930s when government, though well-meaning, became the “solution.” But I think it’s fair to say the past 8 years have not done anything to reverse this notion. Quite the opposite.
btpull,
You forgot the obvious group who LOVES the FairTax: the super-duper rich who have already purchased just about every hard good they can purchase, they are settled into their “house for life” and never have to worry again about any really big ticket items to buy. (Read: Neal Boortz and John Linder), while everyone else NOT in that wealth-earning range DOES have to worry about paying a hefty federal sales tax on every large-ticket item they buy.
Those are the facts. Next time you present an argument, don’t neglect the factual details.
Bill,
I used to be a big supporter of the NRST, and I think it is objectively better than the current system. If we were starting from scratch, it would be the way to go.
However, the fact is that we have had the current horrible system for decades, and introducing the NRST would be like giving a spine transplant to a 90 year old cancer patient.
The work is horribly complicated and the patient is in a state and probably would not survive the surgery.
So, like you, I oppose the plan, and instead want tax simplification, and perhaps a flat tax constitutional amendment. If then we want to operate on a healthy patient and introduce the NRST, so be it.
Holly,
While I agree that the path to socialism began in the 1930′s, the GOP is the party that has destroyed the USA financially. 70% of the debt was incurred under the last 3 GOP presidents and Nixon disastrously took the US off of the gold standard. Spending on social programs is up 70% under GWB.
The GOP is not longer the lesser of two evils, but just plain evil.
The action in my life of which I am most ashamed is ever voting for George W. Bush, the worst POTUS in history.
Interesting analogy, Doug, and pretty accurate.
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