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Found on the blog Riehl World View

While I’m not a big fan of protesting during a speech, there is something to be said for free speech. It shouldn’t include being brow beaten with a now tired response from John McCain. He continues to use an exceptional case to close down debate on illegal immigration. And his temperament in doing it doesn’t really play well at all.

If he wants to yell and curse at his colleagues in the Senate, it’s their business if they want to put up with it. But how long before this guy really goes off on someone in the heat of a national campaign?

Mr. Shamnesty-Short Fuse almost walked off the stage during a campaign event with the AFL-CIO in Michigan. Audience members didn’t like his soft-on-illegal immigration blather. They booed.

No angry Johnny I don’t believe you when you say you will secure our borders, and not grant amnesty to illegal folks. You lead this new crop of RINO Republicans who continue to pimp amnesty and think that Mexicans crossing the border and providing cheap labor is good for America.
Why don’t you just tell the voters of Michigan that you would support having all of these Mexicans come up there and work in those auto manufacturing plants to keep them open.
They can produce all of those nice cars and save money because they won’t have to deal with these ungrateful greedy overpaid American workers.

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Also via Hot Air - As one of the young evangelicals interviewed for the Times piece today so tactfully put it:

“He reaches outside the normal Republican box.”

It makes me wonder, why Republicans would be supporting an individual who clearly is going after the vote of NON-REPUBLICANS, and actively killing off conservative ideals.
These same idiot Republicans would never consider voting for Bill Clinton, but Suckabee is perfectly fine. Oh I forgot “He is a man of God.” Fucken priceless.

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Found via Gateway Pundit

Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee played the Evangelical card.
The Washington Post reported:

Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee touted his candidacy Saturday as a chance for evangelical Christians to lead the Republican Party rather than just support its candidates.

“I don’t presume that you automatically support me because of a common faith,” Huckabee told a group of more than 100 conservative pastors. “I know I have to earn that. But I also recognize that there is a unique kind of opportunity. For a long time, those of us who are people of faith are asked to support candidates who would come and talk to us. But rarely has there been one who comes from us.”

Mark Levin called this tactic “deplorable campaigning.”
Governor Huckabee also admitted to raising taxes while governor on Face the Nation on Sunday:

Also, in case you folks did not know…

Ernie Dumas writes: Mike Huckabee raised more taxes in 10 years in office than Bill Clinton did in his 12 years.
Clinton tax increases- Increased the general sales tax from 3 percent to 4 per- cent (Act 63 of special session of 1983)

- Increased sales tax by half of 1 percent and extended the tax to used vehicles (Act 3 of 1991)

- Increased the corporate income tax from 6 to 6.5 percent for corporations with net incomes greater than $100,000 (Act 1052 of 1991)

- Levied a 16 percent tax on snuff (yes, there are a few people who still dip snuff) (Act 628 of 1987)

- Levied a 25-cent tax on each pack of cigarette papers (yes, there are people who still roll their own) (Act 1045 of 1987)

- Increased the cigarette tax from 17.75 cents a pack to 21 cents a pack (Act 399 of 1983)

- Increased the cigarette tax by a penny a pack (Act 1211 of 1991)

- Levied a 2 percent tax on certain tourism items like admission to theme parks (Act 38 of 1989)

- Increased excise taxes on mixed drinks sold for on-premises consumption (not wine or beer) (Act 844 of 1983 and Act 908 of 1989)

- Increased motor fuel taxes by 1 cent a gallon (1979)

- Increased motor fuel taxes by 4 cents a gallon (Act 456 of 1985) (Clinton vetoed the bill but the legislature overrode his veto.)

- Increased the tax on motor fuels by 5 cents a gallon

- Increased motor vehicle registration fees, 1979 (subsequently repealed)
Huckabee tax increases

- Imposed an income tax surcharge of 3 percent on tax liabilities of individuals and domestic and foreign corporations (Act 38, 1st special session of 2003). (It was temporary until revenues improved. The legislature repealed it in 2005.)

- Increased the sales tax by 1/8 of one percent by initiated act (but it was a personal campaign by Huckabee, who campaigned across the state for it and took a celebrated bass boat trip for 4 days down the Arkansas River holding press conferences in each river city to urge passage of the act) (there’s lots more)

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From National Review by Mark R. Levin

Nice to know Drew Cline reads the Corner and has explained that his paper actively campaigns for their endorsed presidential candidate.  Maybe Drew can respond to these — here, here, here, and here.

In sum, John McCain has been weak on homeland security, joining with numerous liberal Democrats to argue for closing Guantanamo Bay, applying the Geneva Conventions to unlawful enemy combatants, extending certain constitutional rights to detainees, limiting tried and true interrogation techniques, and conferring amnesty on illegal aliens (which would include OTMs; that fact that Bush supported the same thing is no defense).  He aggressively opposed the Bush tax cuts, even after they were scaled back.  He is behind the McCain-Lieberman Stewardship Act, which is a Kyoto-like manifesto.  His role in McCain-Feingold goes well beyond merely voting for it (he was its primary crusader).  He organized the Gang of 14, which I contended at the time and still believe effectively killed Republican efforts to kill the Democrat filibustering of judicial nominees.  And while he votes against unbalanced budgets, he has no problem with federal intervention in a wide range of matters that are outside the federal government’s constitutional limits.  
 
Yes, McCain has been steadfast on the Battle of Iraq.  And yes, that’s important.  But Rudy Giuliani’s strength is said to be his understanding of the Islamo-fascist threat, and he would be no slouch; nor would Fred Thompson or Mitt Romney.  But McCain has also been in the Senate for many years.  And I don’t recall prior to 9/11 that he was a leading voice warning against potential terrorist attacks, or al-Qaeda, or using his position to demand greater spending and preparedness for the U.S. military during Clinton’s presidency (although I am open to evidence to the contrary).  I don’t recall him speaking out against efforts to weaken out intelligence agencies.  Clearly, McCain knows how to make noise over any issue if he wants to, whether through the media or shutting down the Senate.  He has been the mainstream media’s favorite Republican for years, and there’s a reason for it.
 
I think there’s a bit of cult of personality associated with McCain’s backers.  He’s unquestionably a war hero and a man of great courage.  But he is wrong on so much that I have trouble understanding how the Manchester Union Leader can not only back him, but will now campaign for him. 

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Folks I hope those of you who come a peep my little blog realize one thing, one of the main reasons I blog is for my own educational purposes.
This blog is hardly viewed by nor will it ever be viewed by enough people for it to be “influential” or relevant.
I am an obsessive blog reader, I have said countless times I love my homies on the right, even those with whom I may not agree with on every topic mainly because they are truly educated in the world of politics and most are passionate.

I am really pissed off this morning, partly because I’m a bit cranky since I have been on Mrs. Snoops South Beach diet. I am munching on celery, cherry tomatoes and cottage cheese for breakfast. She says the first two weeks are the hardest, it’s true. I have not had ANY alcohol in almost 3 weeks, no joke. Anywho, Snoop, anger… aimed at so-called Republicans. I usually keep the TV on in my office and I watch the pundit gab fests as background noise and I constantly get pissed at all of the networks including Fox who continue to prop up these fraud ass Republicans and intentionally leave Fred out of the election conversation and it has worked.

I listened to several radio talk shows, (not Rush, he was out yesterday) and the phone lines were filled with “republicans” saying that they did not know ANYTHING about Fred Thompson, and how he has failed to articulate his views on issues.
Forget abut Fred for a minute here, my problem is with these so called Republicans, bunch of old dumb ass ignorant fucks who continue to be so easily swayed by these jackass GOP phonies while at the same time say that “while I was excited about the possibility of a Thompson campaign, he just has not shown me anything.” What the fuck is he suppose to show you, does dude got to dance on his damm head and do magic tricks to get noticed?

I’ve got to give it up to Ron Paul fans, although dude is frankly a political train wreck, his peeps got the word out about him and has forced people to pay some attention to him.
I won’t mention Paul’s treasure chest of issues including his racist past that his fans refuse to acknowledge.
But hey, dude got 7 percent of the vote last night, major props.
Libertarians should back their own, guy and they did it.
However the Republicans, at least the people I hear bitching and moaning are infinitely clueless.
At least the Democrats have a choice between liberal candidates’ number one, number two and number three, while the Republican field is being led by a bunch of closet liberal Democrat flunkies.
I’m angry at the party, and feel that the Republican Party is in deep trouble. I was sent another Republican Party questionnaire and this contribution form, I would not send the GOP a fucken dime, I need to even stop referring to myself as a Republican.
I understand that New Hampshire was not going to be competitive for Fred, but for him to get one fucken percent of the vote is just retarded beyond belief.

Rush talks about this scenario and I totally understand, I really get it, but my hopes for Fred are fading, not for him as a candidate, but that so-called Republicans either too stupid, or increasingly vulnerable to TV pundit yammering and are just too damm lazy to understand the difference between these candidates.
Fred Thompson and Duncan Hunter two rock solid, plain spoken individuals without a hint of leftist pandering are nowhere to be found in the conversation, except for most of these politically educated right leaning blogs their message is obviously over most “so-called” Republicans heads.

Folks I would have not problem with people saying to me, I have studied all of the issues and looked at all of the candidates equally but I support candidate A.
But that is not what “Republicans” are doing and saying, they are claiming ignorance, something the party and it’s peeps are showcasing more and more each day.

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RUSH: Now, I want to remind all my Republican friends that there are many states after Iowa and New Hampshire where the Republican populations are far more indicative of the conservative base, and to get caught up in what happened in Iowa, to get caught up in what’s going to happen in New Hampshire as though they’re the only two states that matter and that they’re going to determine the fallout on both parties is a little bit over the top.Iowa is a caucus; it’s a weird setup. New Hampshire allows independents to vote in the Republican primary, which is why McCain is doing as well as he is doing, and it’s why the media want this to be a bellwether against Romney. I mean, Pat Buchanan came in second. He came in a very strong second in New Hampshire in 1992. Now, I’m not saying that these contests are not to be taken seriously here, and that they’re not to be fought and to be won, but we don’t want to get ahead of ourselves. New Hampshire is no longer the conservative barometer it used to be. The state has changed, it is now quite liberal. A lot of people who used to live in Massachusetts have moved into New Hampshire to escape New Hampshire’s high taxation and other problems. New England generally the northern states, states like Iowa, is not where the conservative base resides in large numbers. The Drive-By Media would love to destroy the conservative coalition. They would love to destroy the conservative base to the Republican Party. That’s why they are promoting Huckabee; it is why they are promoting McCain.

The Drive-By Media, ladies and gentlemen, will tell us each and every day who the true conservatives in the Republican primary are, and they will tell us by virtue of who they attack and also by virtue of who they prop up. They are propping up McCain; they are propping up Huckabee. The Drive-By Media hate conservatives. They want to destroy conservatism. It is the bulwark standing in their way of power and monopolistic control of all the apparatus of the country, government, media, and everything else. It’s one of the best indicators I can offer you. If you’re asking who is the genuine conservative out there or who is most conservative, who is most liberal on the Republican side, just take a look at who the Drive-Bys are enamored of and you will be able to answer the question yourself without me having to tell you. Why do you think that Senator McCain is making his big stand in New Hampshire? Because he did well there in 2000 and because he knows he runs really well with independents. He knows that New Hampshire is not a big conservative state.

If McCain were running on a genuine conservative agenda he’d be focusing on South Carolina for example, but he’s not. He’s focusing in New Hampshire because he thinks conservatives can be outnumbered there by this new influx of independents. You know, he’s up there in New Hampshire, if you listen to McCain, touting his left-wing environmental agenda with Joe Lieberman, for crying out loud. Now, recently there has been an endorsement that have people scratching their heads. “Jack Kemp, supply-sider, endorsing McCain? What’s this all about?” I’ll give you two reasons, and I’m just hazarding my own guess here, but I think it’s the old boys club in Washington, the inside the Beltway establishment apparatus, and the dirty little secret: Congressman Kemp is an open borders guy. So is Senator McCain. Have you noticed that in these forums and debates, McCain doesn’t want to talk about immigration; he doesn’t want to talk about campaign finance reform; he doesn’t want to talk about the things that genuinely rile conservatives? He wants to sweep those issues under the rug, and try to redefine what those issues were all about and what his position was on both of them.

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GOP hopeful now claims he ‘never supported’ reprieve for illegals

Sen. John McCain’s Straight Talk Express may have derailed in the New Hampshire debates.In tonight’s Fox News presidential forum, the GOP hopeful denied charges he favored an immigration-reform plan that offered amnesty to millions of illegal aliens.

“I have never, ever supported amnesty, and never will,” McCain asserted.

During the ABC News presidential debate on Saturday, he angrily denied it and even suggested anybody who says he did support amnesty is a “liar, is lying.”

But in a May 28, 2003, press conference in Tucson, the Arizona senator said Congress should pass a guest-worker program that includes “amnesty” for illegal workers in the U.S.

“I think we can set up a program where amnesty is extended to a certain number of people,” McCain said. “Amnesty has to be an important part, because there are people who have lived in this country for 20, 30 or 40 years, who have raised children here and pay taxes here and are not citizens.”

“He used the word,” noted GOP rival Gov. Mitt Romney during the Fox debate, referring to amnesty.

He also pointed out that McCain co-sponsored a bill to provide so-called Z visas to illegals who “earn the right,” as McCain explained, to stay in the U.S. That includes paying a $5,000 fine and maintaining a job here, McCain said.

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I’m listening to Rush as usual and my head hurts listening to this one caller who claims that he is undecided as to what GOP candidate to endorse.
Then dude eventually comes clean and says that he supports Suckabee because he is the “most” conservative. He then says later that Giuliani would be a good alternative.

Now I understand that people are willing to go to great lengths to give props to their candidate of choice and even flat out lie about his or her credentials.
However those of you who claim to be Republicans and yet support the obvious liberal tendencies of a candidate like Suckabee or Romney, shit even John McCain is amazing to me.
I have said prior, it’s not like you can’t go to You Tube and listen to what these candidates have said before or read prior articles on legislative action taken by these individuals while they occupied former offices. You can go to countless websites and see specifically the records that many of the GOP candidates try to conceal or misrepresent.

Despite all of that, I hear to way too many callers talk shows, (exceedingly funny when they try to pull this bullshit on Rush), trying to redefine what conservatism really means and moving solid benchmarks that should be required of any good solid GOP candidate.

As Rush and countless other political pundits have pointed out, but Rush in particular, Republican candidates need not pander to the left to win elections.
Kissing the collective asses of liberal Democrats is not what any TRUE Republican candidate for president should be doing.

The fact that I keep reading and hearing supposedly Republican voters pimping for the likes of Suckabee, the lying fraud Romney and a cross dressing Rudy is somewhat disturbing.
Maybe these campaigns have adopted the guerrilla tactics of Ron Paul supporters and have been instructed to manipulate poll numbers, frequently call talk shows, write letters to the editor, spam websites and blogs completely ignoring the essential substance of their candidate of choice.

Here is a portion of a transcript of Rush’s show where he talks about “Identity Politics”
particularly talking about Sucakbee and his followers.
Basically tard Christian types who think that just because Suckabee is this former preacher man that he must be the “God” candidate. I can here the redneck accents as I type this, “I support Huckabee because he is an Evangelical Christian”
(remember to say that in your best hillbilly voice)
Never mind his actual record and the fact that well….Suckabee is a closet liberal tard!
Note to you die hard people pimping the fact that Suckabee was a former preacher and “man of God”, look I have several former classmates who back in the day said point blank that they were going to be preachers because of the money they could make.
Yes all are now pretty successful preachers, one pimping parishioners in one of the oldest and most prominent churches in Alabama.
The only difference between them and yours truly is I much rather play Xbox and chill than eying the collection plates while “entertaining” folks on Sundays.
That is what frankly way too many shyster bible wavers engage in. Suckabee has just chosen to take his carnival road show into politics.
It worked in coning the people of Arkansas; I just hope that the American people won’t get screwed into supporting another man from… Hope?

RUSH: Okay, folks, let me tell you what’s going on now. I sadly, and unfortunately, must make this point reacting to our last caller. What we have going on here is identity politics, I think, in a large swath of support for Governor Huckabee. Identity politics is what the left does. Do you know what I mean when I say “identity politics,” Rachel? Okay.

Identity politics is: You vote for the Christian. You vote for the black. You vote for the woman. This is traditionally how the left looks at people. We, as conservatives, don’t. We don’t see you, for example, in a political sense, and see a woman first. We might see a woman first because you’re beautiful, but we’re men and we can’t help it. In a political sense, we wouldn’t say, “You don’t qualify. You’re not smart because you’re a woman,” and we wouldn’t say you deserve anything special because you’re a woman. We wouldn’t look at a black and say, “Oh! Poor, disadvantaged, slavery heritage, presidential material!” without knowing anything about the guy.

We wouldn’t if there was the first admittedly open gay running, we wouldn’t say, “Oh, terribly discriminated against, really has had no chance! We’re going to vote for the gay guy because it makes us feel better about ourselves.”That’s identity politics, or a little strain of it, and that’s what’s happening in the Huckabee race. The identity of Huckabee is: “Christian, Southern Baptist minister,” and that identity is covering and is being translated by supporters as meaning whatever they want it to mean, as opposed to actually looking at how he’s governed. Like the pastor who just called and said Huckabee is a light at the end of the tunnel. Pastor, the light at the end of the tunnel is the oncoming train, and you can’t get off the track!

That’s the light at the end of the tunnel, and I think identity politics was a fundamental feature of the Perot campaign as well. People really didn’t even care what his policies were. He didn’t even have to articulate policies. Remember that? (classic Ross Perot impression) “I’ll tell you, Larry, here’s what we’re going to do! We’re going to get rid of all these 737s, going to hire a bunch of Lear 55s. We’re going to have smaller airplanes.” He cares so much! “You own this country! You own it. This is your country. We’re going to give this country back to you.” That’s identity politics, and this is traditionally not what conservatives and even Republicans, right-wingers, do.

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Happy New Year people.
Ole Snoop is desperately trying to get his bearings.
Since Mrs. got me my coveted gift, a new X-Box 360 and a new NCAA 2008 football game, I have been obsessively learning the new game getting use to the new platform.
I have been playing the game damm near non stop while watching all of the bowl games. I am dreaming of receiver routes and defensive schemes.
I will soon be applying for the 49ers offensive coordinator position to replace the pathetic jackasses currently being paid shit loads of money calling plays for the worst offense in the NFL.
Ah but this is a new year, no negativity, right?
Mrs. Snoop has me on a new diet, which includes NO ALCOHOL for the first few weeks among other things, but no biggie, frankly I am liquored out.
She has me eating some new, interesting, but healthy stuff and I could stand to lose a few pounds.
Anything to get me to stay away from fast food can’t be all bad.
We shall see if the new diet will make me and even crankier blogger. Scare thought huh?

I have to get caught up on the news of the day and my regular blog watching.

Here is some 411 from Michelle Malkin and Hot Air on Mike Suckabee. I really glad to see that nobody and I mean NOBODY is letting dude get away with his bullshit.
The fact that blue hairs allowed that moron to seemingly become a “front runner” in Iowa simply shows what a joke and a complete waste of time Iowa is.

You know for me it would be one thing if the candidates were canvassing a state like California with diverse ethnic groups and social and economic classes, not to mention that despite the media playing up Iowa like the fucken Super Bowl this election will hardly be determined by a bunch of rednecks, I so sick of hearing about Iowa I can’t see straight.
Suckabee will win, but does anybody honestly believe that he will be the GOP nominee?
The day after “Iowa” can’t come soon enough. I’m sick of seeing video of candidates speaking to a room of people in overalls!

From Hot Air - Huckabee nobly cancels attack ad on Romney — then plays it for reporters

IowaPoliticsDotCom has posted a 10-minute clip of the Huckabee presser. The audio is low, and the “too hot for Iowa TV” ad comes in at about 4:27 in. The press gets its belly laughs in at about 3:55. If you go by the comments at YouTube, which is always a dubious proposition, the press conference didn’t fool anyone.The “lose your own soul” line comes in at about 7:45, after several glitches get taken care of the ad finally plays.

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• Huckabee Proves, Yet Again, That He’s Slimy : The American Pundit
• PoliGazette » Huckabee Won’t Go Negative… Well, Won’t He?
• What soul? » Pursuing Holiness
• Michelle Malkin » Anti-war mob occupies Huckabee’s Iowa office
• BobKrumm.com » Read my lips: no negative ads
• Church and State
• Anwyn’s Notes in the Margin » I Have Only One Word for You, Too, Huck
• The Huckster… « After Darkness Light - Providence Community Church
• Huckabee Falling Dimmer- Among Other Political Issues « Rebecca’s Blog
• Michelle Malkin » Huckabee headed for Leno’s couch

National Campaign chairman for Suckabee Ed Rollins (A man that I have met, and really liked and USE to respect, why he would run the campaign for a faux Republican closet liberal is beyond me, desperate for cash maybe?) said. “What I have to do is make sure that my anger with a guy like Romney, whose teeth I want to knock out, doesn’t get in the way of my thought process.”

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Here is Suckabee explaining his weird press conference on GMA this morning.

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From Michelle Malkin - Why is Suckabee going on Jay Leno

On the eve of the Iowa caucuses, Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee will trade jokes with Jay Leno on NBC’s “Tonight Show.”

While his rivals will be making a final appeal to the state’s voters, Huckabee will be flying to Los Angeles to tape the show with Leno, who returns to the air Wednesday without striking writers.

A similar late-night appearance backfired on rival Fred Thompson, who irked voters in New Hampshire by skipping a Republican debate last fall at the University of New Hampshire to announce his candidacy on Leno’s show.

The unconventional move is somewhat fitting for Huckabee who broke with tradition on Monday, eschewing campaigning to go for a run and get a shave and haircut in front of his media entourage. He also held an odd news conference in which he announced he had decided against going negative with a critical TV ad against Republican Mitt Romney — and then played the ad for the media.
Huckabee and Romney are in a close race in Iowa.

Question for you folks, why would Suckabee go on Jay Leno? Forget about the fact that this is the eve of the meaningless caucuses, but does dude not comprehend the fact that the writers are on strike in La La land. What sort of message will crossing the picket lines send, Hmmmm stay tuned.

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This from Sister Toldjah

Up until a couple of months ago, Mike Huckabee didn’t stand out much for anyone. He wasn’t polling well, and the mediots and his opponents paid very little attention to anything he did. However, since he’s risen in the polls and the spotlight’s brightened considerably on his campaign, what’s shone the most is not an image a potential president should want to emulate.

Before I go any further, a few nice comments about Huckabee are in order: I’ve said before that Huckabee is a likeable guy. But likeable guys don’t always make good presidents. He’s someone you could take to the buffet breakfast at Shoney’s and shoot the breeze with. Somebody you wouldn’t mind being your neighbor. If he were still a minister, he’s someone you wouldn’t mind going to hear preach his Sunday sermon. But presidential material he isn’t.Outside of the far left, you don’t find many people who are eager for a president who flies by the seat of his pants on any given day, not knowing which way to go.

Essentially, that’s what we’ve learned about Huckabee: that he has no idea how to conduct himself as a man running for the honor of getting elected as president of the greatest country in the world, and, frankly, is a person who can be downright bizarro sometimes.

I’ve written before about Huckabee’s record of flip flopping and fiscal liberalism, which I’m not asserting is bizarro. Not good for a Republican candidate, but certainly not insane, either. But here’s where it starts to get a bit wacky: In that post, I noted Huckabee’s ignorance of the Iran NIE report, which had been released for a full 24 hours by the time he was asked about it. I also noted how he admitted he was flip-flopping on his position on the Cuba embargo because he was running for president.

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Found this via Michelle Malkin, these folks issues with McCain mirror mine pretty much

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Thomas Sowell Echos Snoop, Imagine that!:

None of the candidates looks truly inspiring at this point. I wouldn’t buy a used car from most of them, nor a brand new car from some of them…

… John McCain seems to be having a little resurgence but it is hard to believe that Republicans are so desperate as to support a man who joined with far left Democrat Russ Feingold to restrict free speech in the name of “campaign finance reform” and with Ted Kennedy to sponsor a bill giving amnesty to illegal immigrants.

…This nation has come back from unpromising times before. Let’s hope that we have not already used up all our luck.

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Romney pulls a Clinton

Listen to what was said before…

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While trolling some liberal blogs I found this from the blog Blue Mass Group

BMG has obtained a photograph showing Mitt Romney at a house party to benefit Planned Parenthood that was held in June of 1994, during his campaign for US Senate against Ted Kennedy.  And, BMG has learned, Ann Romney’s $150 check to Planned Parenthood that was in the news a few months back was related to this event.

In case you forgot; ABC quoted [Romney spokesman Kevin Madden] as saying that “[t]he governor has not donated to Planned Parenthood or abortion-rights groups.”

Read the rest here, y’all already know what I think about this fraud ass!

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DES MOINES, Iowa–Stepping out for a press conference here Monday, Mike Huckabee fielded the ultimate question. Just how conservative are you?”I’m as conservative as anyone could hope to be, or want to be, or needs to be,” replied the smiling former Arkansas governor, never missing a beat, and following up with a boilerplate summary of his belief in “lower taxes,” the “sanctity of human life” and a “strong military”–before moving ever so swiftly on to the next question.

It was trademark Huckabee: Sounds great, explains little. It’s a strategy that has so far served him well, rocketing his campaign in recent weeks to the top ranks of the Republican presidential field. The question is whether he can continue to pull off that trick, now that he’s receiving belated media scrutiny. A few days following the candidate on the Iowa campaign trail suggests it could prove tough. If Mr. Huckabee does turn out to be everything Republicans “want” or “need” in a conservative, it will only be because the definition of a conservative has morphed to include tax hiking, protectionism, corporate scolding and an unserious approach to foreign policy.

What aren’t in doubt are Mr. Huckabee’s social-values credentials. He has an undisputed record on questions of abortion and gay marriage, and he’s spent no small portion of his limited advertising money making sure Iowa voters know it. Christian conservatives make up an estimated 40% of the state’s GOP vote, and by all accounts he’s slowly locking up that vote. That alone accounts for a fair share of his recent rise in the polls.

Mr. Huckabee is the charisma candidate. Like another man from Hope, Ark., the onetime pastor is an extraordinary speaker. He’s self-deprecating and funny, has perfect timing, and never struggles for an answer. He has that rare ability to pull out just the right story in response to any situation, and to deliver it in a folksy, Southern way.

Read the rest of this article here, but let me first just say this; Folks I’m angry, as angry as someone can be on Lexapro, and drinking Irish Cream on the rocks at 9:00a.m.
As this piece points out we are allowing people to redefine conservatism, this article focuses on Huck but the same can be said for 3 faux Republicans and what is worse far too many of you are allowing it.

As of today, December 18, 2007 I still have the utmost confidence that Fred Thompson will be the Republican Party’s nominee for President of the United States.
One reason why I believe that is because the major networks are completely ignoring him. Snoop WTF? I’ll explain.
Virtually every pundit on Fox goes out of their way to dismiss him and call him irrelevant. Republican pundits on interviews won’t even mention him.
I have even heard a couple of Democratic strategist say if he does not win South Carolina he will be out of the race.
Ask yourself this, if Fred Thompson’s campaign is in its final days, they why go out of your way to mention that?
Basically the media and the pundits are working awfully hard to discredit “an irrelevant” candidate.

Lets get real here; the Democrats do not want to run against Thompson, because he is not a closet liberal, because he has never advocated for big government, opening our boarders to illegal immigrants, reducing our military, backing away from the war against Islamic terrorist pimps, granting clemency to murderers and the list goes on.
He is not flashy, not a smooth talker, he looks like a worn out grandpa on most days, has this annoying clearing of the throat thingy he does, and dude needs to STILL get some good designer to have his suites tailored to fit him better.
But most of all I respect and admire an individual who is one of the Thompson’s campaigns most important individuals. I have said this before and I will say again, he has said to me that Thompson is a good man and a sincere man and could make a great president. He believes in him. From this individual, that is enough for me.

Every Republican pundit pulling for one of the three frauds dismisses him, because they want to avoid the conservative comparisons.
My anger comes from the people who claim to be Republican and some TV and blog pundits who proclaim themselves to be on the “conservative” bandwagon touting the faux conservative credentials of candidates like Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, and Rudy Giuliani? What the fuck are you people drinking in the morning?

We need to stop trying to redefine conservatism, maybe some of you need to go back and understand what that actually means.
If you people who have given your support to these frauds don’t wake up this party will be on the outside looking in the next 8 plus years, because you allowed fictitious poll numbers, Sunday morning Baptist preaching rhetoric, New York shyster slick talking points, and a lying ass LDS fraud to redefine conservatism.

Unlike a great number of bloggers and pundits who pimp for these campaigns, I’m not in Thompson’s pocket, I’m not paid to put a bunch of banner bullshit on my site, I don’t work for his campaign, not a family member, a friend from back in the day, has never been invited to interview or spend time with a candidate, I don’t have exclusive access to a campaign, never been invited to a campaign rally or party, not a pimp for the Republican Party.
Not paid to post my opinions on my blog or any other blog, do not receive one dime of money from blogging.
I do it because I love blogging, I have fun doing it, and I love to share my opinions. What you read and see is what I am.

If Fred does not get the nomination, the world will not end, I will be greatly disappointed, and I will be forced to support one of these frauds.
The only thing I can hope for is a Republican majority in one or both of the chambers.
Hopefully some Republican discipline will be administered.
Bottom line I’m just a brotha tryin’ to make sense of this campaign bullshit and seriously is not liking what he is seeing.

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Huckabee took thousands in gifts, records show·

Presents belie humble image of former governor

· Businessman was donor to presidential frontrunner

A $1,000 pair of cufflinks from a supporter, tens of thousands of dollars of clothing from a wealthy Little Rock businessman and thousands in gift certificates and cash from staff and appointees were among the lavish gifts given to Republican presidential candidate and unexpected frontrunner Mike Huckabee while he was governor of Arkansas.
The gifts fell within Arkansas’s ethics rules but have raised questions among the governor’s political opponents and ethics analysts at a time when scrutiny of the candidate is intensifying, and are at odds with the humble persona Huckabee has adopted on the campaign trail.

A review of state records by the Guardian indicates that during his more than 10 years as governor, Huckabee received thousands of dollars in presents almost every year: gift certificates to sporting goods stores, clothing boutiques and Wal-Mart, a $3,695 pair of cowboy boots, a $500 belt and more.

In addition, some former Huckabee staff and appointees acknowledged to the Guardian that Huckabee’s chief of staff and a cabinet official solicited contributions from staff and appointees for Christmas gifts for the governor.

Huckabee’s chief source of largesse was Jennings Osborne, a Little Rock businessman who made his money in the medical testing business. In 1996, Huckabee’s first year as governor, Osborne bought furniture for the governor’s office and a fountain pen for the governor’s use, and regularly sent flower arrangements. In subsequent years Osborne bought Huckabee gift certificates to department stores and clothing boutiques, 200 copies of a book Huckabee wrote, ties, flowers and air travel.

There is more here, but you get the point. Honest humble Baptist preacher my ass.
Baptist preachers are some of the biggest pimps around.