Huckabee is so awesome. And each day there’s some new awesomeness about some murderer he pardoned, how he wants to talk to Iran, or some new statement that sounds like it came from a Democratic presidential candidate. He just keeps getting so awesome you want to blow your brains out (with the awesomeness).
Seriously: Who are these Huck voting people? Where are they? Why won’t they stop? Why do they hate America?
Then again, there’s the candidate who used to be my fallback; the Republican I could settle for: Romney.
Romney was on Meet the Press Sunday and Tim Russert asked him about how the Mormon church excluded blacks from the priesthood until 1978. Romney answered by talking about how his father was big into the civil rights movement and how he broke down and cried when he heard the Mormon church changed its policy. That’s all well and good; all religions have stupid parts in their past which they’ve atoned for. But then Russert asked Romney “But it was wrong for your faith to exclude it for as long as it did?” and Romney dodged it:
“I’ve told you exactly where I stand. My view is that there–there’s, there’s no discrimination in the eyes of God, and I could not have been more pleased than to see the change that occurred.”
So he doesn’t like racism but he won’t say explicitly the Mormon church was wrong to be racist. That’s not going to play. The American people will give people leeway on their religion, but if he can’t come out and condemn a racist policy then his religion is going to be an issue and he’s not going to be electable. Plus, he looks like a coward for giving political speak on what most people would think to be a simple question.
Looking at the candidates now, I think amnesty-loving, first-amendment impeding cranky old man McCain is actually my second choice now (Joe Lieberman likes him). That’s super sad. I’d like to be able to support Giuliani with how much he fixed up New York City, but even if he I can get past him being liberal on abortion and guns and convince myself that won’t matter as president, he still has his scandals with his mistress and I just got the feeling more are coming.
Well, we don’t have to be depressed. There’s still Fred Thompson. His nomination would mean a candidate with real conservative principles, strength on the war and the border, and me being able to hock a lot of t-shirts.
Of course, I’m just putting my thoughts out on the Republican presidential primary; none of this is an endorsement. Do you think, though, as a revered conservative institution, IMAO should come out and officially make an endorsement? I like to stay above these things, but I always get the feeling the American people want us to more clearly tell them exactly what to think and do. What say you?
I guess if God forbid you have to go to your second choice, you don’t want to throw away a vote on Duncan Hunter then.
As for not having endorsed anyone yet, could have fooled me.
I thought you already had endorsed Fred. I quit counting the number of Fred is awesome posts. I originally was going for Rudy because I thought he was the most electable. But now I am all for Fred. Still like Rudy second and holding my nose for Mitt third.
Better Fred than dead. Everyone else is simply delaying our horrible deaths from PC pandering. You know it, I know it. Tell the people IMAO is proud to stand behind a winner. Then if not endorsed, move to Idaho and become a nutty separatist…oh wait. Sorry.
Hidden Democrats.
Already thought Fred had been endorsed also,
Honestly, I love this site, I’ve been reading it for years, but –
While I realize it’s completely tongue-in-cheek, there are so many posts on this site that somebody in the press could go absolutely apeshit over, I might actually be hesitant about it.
It’d be fun to get some journalist asking “Mr. Thompson, do you agree with your supporters that we should start a War for Oil?” “Mr. Thompson, what are your thoughts on the Mexi-cannon?” but this could actually be played pretty badly.
How about a fake endorsement? I doubt everybody could stand it, but it’d be interesting to spend a week pretending to support Ron Paul and see what happens. Or if that’s too much, just pick some Democrat and say outrageous, but somewhat plausible stuff about them.
“Who are these Huck voting people? Where are they? Why won’t they stop? Why do they hate America?” – Frank
Hidden Democrats. – Ed Flinn
I disagree with that comment. I’ve voted Republican in every presidential election since 1980, and worked for our candidates every year except 1988 (when I was active duty military).
I think the problem is that the backbone of the GOP has not been the enterpenuer class, but Christian working stiffs who get shafted frequently by corporate America, and Huck has tapped into their discontent that they keep voting for these people and their issues are ignored.
I think that a lot of people are worried about an upcoming recession, and none of the candidates on our side seem to notice except Huck.
I also think he has done well because so many of the other candidates are uninspiring. Fred has barely been a blip, Romney seems phony, Guiliani is a scandal waiting to happen.
I am in favor of de facto, unofficial endorsements like the one you may or may not have going for a particular John Wayne Stud. Sometimes, endorsements from the media (old or new) can work strongly against a candidate. This has been the case with Romney and the NR endorsement, which as the NYT pointed out was bought and paid for (HT: Conservative Superiority). Mr. Thompson needs no such tricks.
Why Huck? Because the rest of the candidates (except Duncan Hunter and maybe Ron Paul) have more in common with Andi Sullivan’s views on social issues than they do with GOP primary voters’ views on social issues. Sad, though, that Huck is so far off his nut on foreign policy, the economy and government regulation.
Endorse Ron Paul!
#1 – How’s that that anyone would “have to go second choice” in the primary? You vote your conscience, so you always vote your first and only choice. If all not brain-dead people who read this site do that, Fred will be the nominee.
Focus prople, focus! The only thing that really matters in this race is beating Hillary/Obama. The best person to beat either one of them is
not Huckabee!
“but Christian working stiffs who get shafted frequently by corporate America, and Huck has tapped into their discontent that they keep voting for these people and their issues are ignored.” Take out the Christian part and it’s John Edwards
Listen here you dumb blog. You dumb blog claim to be not endorsing Fred yet you go on and on about how he is so awesome. And dumb blog you sell lame Fred t-shirts that no one wants to buy. That’s an endorsement you dumb blog. You dumb hack blog even ripped off the Chuck Norris jokes and used them for Fred when ironically Chuck endorses Huck. Dumb blog are you trying to hedge your bets so when Fred loses (which is inevitable) you can say “See, we never endorsed Fred”? Talk about trying to have it both ways you dumb stupid blog.
BigDogDaddy,
Are you saying Corporate America doesn’t shaft the working guy? What planet are you from?
The survival of the modern GOP is that so many Christians vote against their economic interest. Panicking them that a couple of gay guys might get married or a Mexican might be hiding under his bed is how the GOP keeps these folks distracted. Meanwhile, he watches his good job get shipped to India or China, and his health insurance gets cancelled.
A recent poll showed that one question that seems to get universal agreement is that Corporate America gets whatever it wants out of Washington.
The funny thing is that Corporate America knows how the game is played, which is why they are now giving money to Hillary in wagonloads.
Henry Ford once stated that “If my workers can’t afford to buy my cars, I don’t have a business.” Corporate America doesn’t seem to care about a healthy middle class.
Huckabee is the guy who GETS IT. America is stronger when it looks out for its own economic interest.
I’ll endorse any candidate that promises to “eat eyeballs” and “fling poo.” Two liberal monkeys come to mind, and one of them could be / may be Huck.
No eyeballs for oil!
-ptooie.
Frank, look out a window, like right now. Esp. compared to Florida, it gets dark EARLY in Boise. Don’t let the darkness overcome you with depression. Fight back. You deal with dumb candidates and presidents with mockery. Keep at it! We love your work!!!
reading #14, Hurry Frank! We don’t want arrogant rehashes of “what’s the matter with Kansas” in your comments! (esp. since the question ought to be “what’s the matter with the Democrats?” If we poor Christian working folk are so dumb about our economic interests, why can’t the democrats steal us and why is huck a republican?
I think some people might be missing the joke about endorsement… Which is very, very sad.
It matters not to me if you should choose to endorse a candidate. As far as telling me exactly what I should think or do, that too, would have little effect. I would continue thinking and doing precisely as I wished. Unless, of course, you should happen to back up your advice with a “Fred said”.
I no Mormon expert, but I seem to recall reading that the reason they changed their position in 1978 is that their leader of the time received a revelation. That means, if I’m not mistaken, that they think they were following God’s will up until that point, but then God changed his mind and gave them new instructions. Romney is just sticking with the current position of his church.
They probably would not put it quite the way I did.
Wait – you want me to tell you to tell me what to do?
reading #14, Hurry Frank! We don’t want arrogant rehashes of “what’s the matter with Kansas” in your comments! (esp. since the question ought to be “what’s the matter with the Democrats?” If we poor Christian working folk are so dumb about our economic interests, why can’t the democrats steal us and why is huck a republican?-Capitalist_B
This year, they probably will steal a lot of us, especially if we nominate Giuliani, who is no different than Hillary on social issues.
Frankly, I missed the part in the Bible where Jesus said Wall Street should make record profits while shipping your job to India. So did a lot of other Christians.
I have no problem with Wall Street making money, so long as they understand their responisibilities to the rest of us. That seems to be forgotten.
The really sad part about JoeB131 (#’s 6, 14, and 22) is that he is ostensibly a member of this “average working guy” class and appears wholly comfortable with that, but wants to rail against “Corporate America” for “get[ting] shafted repeatedly”. JoeB(iden?) is a member of the entitlement brigade that makes up the Democrat party, thinking he can vote his way into financial prosperity and that the .gov ought to offer him a big fat teat to suckle.
Joe: if you want a better life for yourself, if you want to change things, if you want to rid yourself of that “shaft”, then get off your duff and work for it. You sound a lot like John Edwards, with his “two Americas” theory. The fact is there is one America, and it affords you the same opportunity that it afforded John Rockefeller and Bill Gates. The difference is, they understood that they’ve got to work to take advantage of the opportunities given them, and that the prosperity they created for themselves could not be legislated.
Wall St. owes me health care, a used car, and a steak dinner every saturday night. But it doesn’t owe you jack squat, JoeB.
And if a couple of homos want to pretend they’re married that’s one thing. But for the government to sanctify an abomination is a sphincter of a different color.
What Beo said.
Did you see “Airheads?”
“All I’m saying is we wanna be heard!” OK, go on, we’re listening. “That’s all I have to say.”
SteadyRock- Exactly at what point did I say I want government benefits? Heck, I don’t even use the veteran’s benefits I’m entitled to for my 11 years of service in the military.
What I do expect is that the government do its job. I expect that when I buy toys for my nieces and nephews this Christmas, they aren’t full of lead paint and Roofies because the agency that was supposed to make sure they weren’t has been bought off and the corporation who sent all those jobs to China didn’t care until a trial lawyer made them. Sometimes, we really are our own worst enemy.
Now, I realize a rugged individualist like yourself would rather have us take our chances…me, I want clean water, safe food and toys that won’t kill my kids.
The fact is that we have huge payments and tax breaks to corporations that move jobs overseas, import dangerous products and oh, yeah, seem to want to cut benefits to workers at every oppurtunity. The funny thing is that as much as you whine about an entitlement class, the attitude of yourself and most of Corporate America is creating the demand for it. Michael Moore can peddle his nonsense on how wonderful socialize medicine would be because every year, the privately based system gets worse and worse.
Every year, the American dream gets farther and farther away, where Americans often have to work two jobs to make ends meet. It’s unacceptable, and the people aren’t going to put up with it. Huckabee seems to understand this. As long as the GOP is seen as Corporate owned, most folks won’t vote for it.
Frank – in over a year of reading IMAO, this is the first time I’ve seen you mention the Sunday morning talk shows. There’s a wellspring of material there. I just thought since it was MSM that you refused to watch.
Russert went hammer and tong on Romney, much as he did the week before on Rudy. And Romney spent almost the entire hour explaining why he flip-flopped on every videotaped position he ever had; Rudy spent much of his time defending the decision to have a couple of cops keep an eye on his girlfriend so some Mob guinea wouldn’t throw acid in her face. Such an abuse of power…
Oh well, Ron Paul will be on next week. Will Russert be the bulldog, the lapdog, or will his head explode just listening to him for an hour?
Starfish…you shut up. Frankj has more brains in his little finger than you have in your whole stupid body. just sayin.
Frank
I had no idea you had so many communist readers! Talk about a lack of faith in the free market. Go stump for John Edwards you losers, if you want to steal my money for your “help the little guy programs” you could at least be honest about it. Sheesh.
And as for Mitt, I think he’s shown more backbone than most of the other candidates (except maybe Rudy, but that’s his appeal: backbone). I mean seriously, how tough is it to be a conservative if you’re in Arkansas, or Tennessee? I respect how far to the right he was in Mass. I think you have to take that in context.
So everyone who doesn’t buy the “Greed is Good” philosophy of Corporate America is a “communist”.
K, I suppose you think Ken Lay got a bad rap.
Hey man, don’t shoot the messenger, but when you start to capitalize ‘Corporate America’ like it’s some kind of dystopian institution, you may be pinker than you think. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, my fiscally liberal friend.
I just disagree that the best way to help the little guy is to increase the size/burden of the government.
Capitalizing ‘Corporate America’ is not just a little pink. JoeB, if you see the Made in China sticker, then just don’t buy the crap. Be a big boy. If the Chinese junk bugs you then vote for Duncan Hunter.
Huck is a joke, the left leaning MSM is setting him up and everyone else is just getting on the bandwagon. He is going to be knocked off the pedestal soon and we will all be scurrying around looking for the next think to go ga ga over. He could NEVER win and the Republican party would not (I hope) be stupid enough to nominate him.
Hey man, don’t shoot the messenger, but when you start to capitalize ‘Corporate America’ like it’s some kind of dystopian institution, you may be pinker than you think. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, my fiscally liberal friend.
I just disagree that the best way to help the little guy is to increase the size/burden of the government.
#30 – Posted by: k on December 18, 2007 12:11 PM
First, I think it’s a reading a bit much that I capitalized corporate America (Actually, America should always be capatalized, and Corporate usually is in that context.)
Second, as bad as government is, Corporate America, or at least certain elements of it, are far worse, because they aren’t answerable to anyone. I hate to say this, but once upon a time Republicans understood this. Nixon created OSHA and the EPA because some of these people needed someone to watch them.
Let’s take the favorite topic of some on this blog – illegal aliens. Corporate America wants illegal aliens. They don’t want the laws enforced, because that would dry up their cheap labor pool. They don’t want amnesty, because that might empower that cheap labor. So surprise, surprise, nothing gets done.
The complaint about Huck is that he wants to treat illegals humanely and talk to Iran. Well guess what, Ronald Reagan did the same thing. Maybe Huck is the next Reagan…
(Runs for cover)
JoeB.
Now my left temple is throbbing. Thanks.
As far as treating illegals humanely, I am all for it. A nice, humane bus back to their own countries. And don’t go into some sob story…my grandmother was 14 years old when she came here with her parents…her sister was stopped at Ellis Island and forced to go back to Finland because of some medical thing. Alone. The rest all stayed here. Legally. She never saw her again.
Don’t profane the name of R.R. again.
JoeB, most corporations in America are answerable to their customers, unless they are propped up by government regulation, which you seem to love so much. I don’t really see the EPA and OSHA as steps in the right direction anyway, so maybe I’m not your target audience for that argument.
To K- First job out of the Army, I worked at a company where the cheap-ass managers wouldn’t even buy the proper safety equipment until OSHA told them to. The thing is that you live in a world where we’ve had OSHA and the EPA for 35 years, and you have no idea what life was like before then…
To Cowgirl- Your grandmother came over during a time where it was just as easy to get on a boat and come over as it is to sneak under a fence today. I find it kind of funny to hear mostly white people say “Well, my ancestors came here legally”. Well, yeah, when there weren’t any laws, and all they did at Ellis Island was get your name wrong before dropping you into the general population.
And I’m old enough to have campaigned for Reagan…
Hey dumb*$$. I mean joeB.
You totally missed the point. I did NOT say “Well, my ancestors came here legally”. (which they did and that isn’t a BAD thing)
Obviously you aren’t old enough to have studied American history and know that getting your name wrong and dropping you into the general population is NOT “all they did at Ellis Island”. They had to go through medical tests, questioning about their political affiliations, etc. etc. Read up.
And I was old enough, too.
Actually, I was raised a Mormon. I cannot help but be a little annoyed over the obvious bias against the religion I was raised into. From people who claim they seek freedom to worship or not to worship….either way that is neither here nor there, when the Mormon church decided they would allow blacks in the church I was sitting in the Chapel listening. We’d never even had a person of color in the church before…yet there sat one…looking ill at ease…and being happily welcomed into the Brotherhood.
I grew up and while I believe in many of the things I was taught to believe…that taught me that I was not a Mormon anymore.
As for voting for Mitt… I cannot say that I am… and its more a feeling I get when I see him…he reminds me of Al Gore during one of the debates with W back in 2000….arrogant and empty.
I am wavering with Fred…who I wish would do more talking…and perhaps McCain or Rudy…