Gee, Hunky

Thoughtful Ricky.

Living in the 12th Century? I mean, come on.

You’re missing the point. It’s not about whether Mike Huckabee is the best candidate. It’s about respect. To be more specific, it’s about the increasingly clear position of the Republican party that Mike Huckabee has to be stopped BECAUSE he’s a Baptist minister, and the incorrect assumption that he’s getting support only because of that fact.

Anyone who wanted to isolate AIDS patients in 1992 was either a shameless panderer to the ignorant or an ignoramus himself.

And you’re right, all of us atheists got together and plotted the overthrow of the religious right.

And if we can keep a straight face, we’ll get around to it sometime next week.

Rick Moran, your statements are downright irreverent and…sickening.

Atheist schmucks are in the process of dividing the GOP asunder…one has to suspect that it is part of a strategy.

GOP atheists and Far-Left wackos…a perfect team!

Hopefully his recent flip-flop on accommodating illegal invaders and the sweet deal he gave to the Mexican Consulate in Little Rock will finally start to see the light of day more in the press than this hit piece on his HIV stance.

The rise of evangelical Christians as the motive force that blasted the GOP out of minority status during the past generation always contained an inherent danger if these new Republican acolytes supported not merely a conventional conservative but one of their own. That has happened now with Huckabee, a former Baptist minister educated at Ouachita Baptist University and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.

That’s from Bob Novak.

Add that to all the gratuitous insults, which are far too often cracks about his religious background, and I don’t think it’s pretty obvious why I, and many like me, are questioning just where we really do fit in the Republican party.

But Brian…Newt needs to STFU, IMHO. He’s gone native. Might be ok as Fred’s Education Secretary (the last one prior to that Department’s abolishment), but other than that…nah!

I still can’t get over this line:

He coiled, like some sort of beautiful electric cobra panther, and swung around with a magnificent sweep of oratorical perfection that met the bias with a mighty CRACK, sending it backbackbackback…

Hahaha….. still gets me chuckling!

He seemed like a decent candidate in the first few debates. Now that I’ve heard more detail about both his past record as Governor and what he plans for the future, I can’t support him. The nanny-state economics are a big concern, but mainly it’s the emptiness of his national security policy positions that are the deal breaker. What is he going to do, hit Bin Laden with a few witty one-liners and pray for the best?

I’ve been leaning toward Fred Thompson for awhile now, and in the last week he’s pulling me onto the FredHead team.

When you compare foreign policy, national security, economic security and government reform initiatives that Thompson has been advocating in some detail to Huckabee having no idea about that NIE report the other day, the contrast is quite alarming.

I basically agree with this reader whose e-mail wound up on The Corner at NRO:

I personally withheld financial support of Thompson in order to see if he could deliver the campaign equivalent of his commentaries this spring. I saw that vigor in his verbal pasting of Chris Wallace on FNS, and am seeing it again now with the tour plans; campaigning when it counts. Looks like it is time to pony up now that he’s in the game and the greatest criticism of him boils down to: He wasn’t mugging for a camera or firing his best shots when the fewest number of voters were not paying attention during silly, pointless, gotcha debates. Which is a positive when you get down to it, yes?

12/08 03:16 PM

I like what Fred has been saying on most things. He’s very good on immigration, and he gives Guliani a good match on maintaining the offensive in our little war for national survival. He articulates clearly what America has always been about, and where we should be headed. He looks and sounds like a Commander in Chief, rather than a panderer in chief.

I also am hoping that his connection with Newt will be an ongoing thing, maybe into the Administration. Newt’s ideas are in line with Thompson’s government reform agenda. They would make a great team:)

Notice I refrained from insulting Huck, or those here who might be supporting him. This is about ideas for our country, not insulting a few million Republicans with a few keystrokes.

I think the Huckaboom might be going bust very soon. We shall see.

He’s conservative on domestic issues where I’m liberal, and liberal where I’m conservative – he’s a Bible-thumper who doesn’t mind spending the taxpayers’ dollars. But worst of all, he’s as weak as or weaker than any of the Democrats on foreign policy – and that’s patently unforgiveable.

It happens when a candidate gets vetted in a tough national campaign for the first time.

More like, it happens when a candidate says something this controversial. The media was right to report this information. If Obama or Hillary had said this, they’d have done the same thing. It’s pretty incendiary, and that’s what news is all about.