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Ann Coulter: Huckabee Like GOP Jimmy Carter

Tuesday, December 18, 2007 3:40 PM

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Conservative pundit Ann Coulter says GOP presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee is the “Republican Jimmy Carter” and nominating him would be a big mistake for the party.

Appearing with John Gibson and Heather Nauert on Fox News’ “The Big Story,” Coulter was asked about Huckabee’s recent surge in the polls.

“I’m getting tired of this being blamed on the evangelicals,” said Coulter.

Huckabee’s rise is actually “bad for the evangelicals,” she asserted. “Mike Huckabee is the Republican Jimmy Carter.”

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I have been getting the same feeling this guy says-- the Washington elites and the neocons as a whole, don't want Huckleberry-- which to me makes him that much more of a viable candidate to look at... :???: :wink:

Not only Ann the mouth-but her buddy Hannity and all of FOX news has all but ran an anti-Huckabee campaign--promoting Gagliani and old sleepy Fred, along with Rumney.....Anyway thats what it appears to me like....I could vote for Huckabee- even McCain--not so sure about the other two that seem to be in the pockets of big biz--and Fred is just a joke...He needs to go home and take a long nap and rest up after the strain of his wifes driven campaign ....


December 19, 2007
None Of The Above: GOP Heading To A Brokered Convention
By Tony Blankley

The Republican Party primary so far has been an exercise in none of the above. In their turns, Sen. McCain, former Mayor Giuliani, former Sen. Thompson and former Gov. Romney seemed to be or seemed about to be front-runners -- only to fall back as the party's likely voters got a sharper look at each of them. Even my old boss Newt Gingrich, without even announcing, had a handsome surge from 4-5 percent to 18-20 percent in February -- before falling back to single digits.

Now former Gov. Huckabee -- for the moment surging to the front -- is on the receiving end of withering intraparty fire applied with a rhetorical violence usually reserved by Republican polemicists for a Clinton or a Kennedy. Just as social conservatives earlier this fall threatened (for a couple of weeks) to run a third-party candidate if Giuliani got the nomination, so Washington GOP elites are willing to misrepresent parts of what Huckabee has said and written in a savage effort to destroy any chance he might have of being elected.

It is as if each faction of the Grand Old Party feels a stronger passion to defeat its intraparty rival factions than to defeat the Democrats in November. This maximum instinct to deny victory within the party may be a sign of a philosophical rebirth (as in the Goldwater nomination and campaign of 1964), but it is also a sign of a party likely to lose the next general election.
The alleged Huckabee shocker of the week (for the GOP D.C. regulars in journalism and blogland) is his description of President Bush's foreign policy as plagued by an "arrogant bunker mentality." This phrase, according to Romney and his journalistic coat holders, is disloyal to President Bush and is right out of the Democratic talking points.

There is just a touch of insincerity in that charge. During the past year or two, one couldn't have lunch at The Capital Grille (preferred dining spot for big-time D.C. Republican politicians and journalists) or other similar locations without hearing the constant complaint that the Bush White House was arrogant and wouldn't listen to their friends about Iraq or about domestic matters. Until Eddie Gillespie came in as counselor recently (and started reaching out), the word "bunker" was a plausible and often-used word to describe the White House -- even on Iraq policy before the surge this spring.

Perhaps the more honest charge against Huckabee on this point is that it is not politique to say such rude things in public about your own party's president. On the other hand, criticizing a president whose job approval rating is between 30 percent and 35 percent may not be the least useful thing his aspiring replacement could do with his time and syllables.----------------------

I don't have a candidate yet. I either disagree with each on important points or have doubts about the electability of each. But most of all, I fear our intraparty fury will destroy all leaders and send us off to a brokered convention -- and from thence, probably to defeat. If the Democrats have their candidate by February and we are campaigning harshly until August, we surely would start in a deep hole.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/12/none_of_the_above_gop_heading.html
 

Goodpasture

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Conservative pundit Ann Coulter says GOP presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee is the “Republican Jimmy Carter” and nominating him would be a big mistake for the party.
Coulter isn't really a conservative. She is a vicious attack dog. It is just the neocons that encourage her. Her mouth would not be tolerated in most mainstream democrat or republican circles
 

Tex

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I have been getting the same feeling this guy says-- the Washington elites and the neocons as a whole, don't want Huckleberry-- which to me makes him that much more of a viable candidate to look at... Say what? Wink ---OT

I agree.
 
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Goodpasture said:
Conservative pundit Ann Coulter says GOP presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee is the “Republican Jimmy Carter” and nominating him would be a big mistake for the party.
Coulter isn't really a conservative. She is a vicious attack dog. It is just the neocons that encourage her. Her mouth would not be tolerated in most mainstream democrat or republican circles

Well the true Republicans and true Conservatives better grab hold of her and stuff something down her throat....Bad enough she has said that Jews aren't as good as Christians--but now tonite the old biddy was on Hannity & Colmes running down Huckabee and ranting about how Democrats can't be Christians.....

She doesn't realize how much shes helping the Democrats into the White House and total control of D.C.....
But old Hannity just sits there and drools over her skinny fanny and raves on about how right she is..... :(
 

loomixguy

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I think she does the "vicious attack dog" routine on purpose. It does tend to get one thinking. And, once you've heard her speak on a subject, you will never forget her. It's her stock in trade.

As far as helping the Dimms get total control of DC, I seriously have my doubts about that. The Party of Failure and Surrender hasn't done diddly squat since they took over the Senate a year ago, and in fact their approval rating is lower than GW's. Pelosi and Co. have to be the sorriest excuse for "elected officials" I've ever had the misfortune to see. Doesn't say much for the folks who put them there, either.

It's too damn bad when neither party can present a candidate who is worth the fuel it takes to drive to the polls.
 

Tex

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loomixguy said:
I think she does the "vicious attack dog" routine on purpose. It does tend to get one thinking. And, once you've heard her speak on a subject, you will never forget her. It's her stock in trade.

As far as helping the Dimms get total control of DC, I seriously have my doubts about that. The Party of Failure and Surrender hasn't done diddly squat since they took over the Senate a year ago, and in fact their approval rating is lower than GW's. Pelosi and Co. have to be the sorriest excuse for "elected officials" I've ever had the misfortune to see. Doesn't say much for the folks who put them there, either.

It's too damn bad when neither party can present a candidate who is worth the fuel it takes to drive to the polls.

That was a funny song/video, but I could be wrong.
 

Steve

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with you three supporting Huckabee, I'll take another look at him.... :shock:

I have long said that the republican voters have not voted yet...

Rudy is set to get out, the flu test thing is a way for him to "signal" to the other players a deal could be made... bet he is the next "homeland security chief"...

as for Fred... well when he wakes up, he'll get a legal defence fund and a new law and order gig...

that leaves Mitt, Huckabee,.. Hunter...
with Ron Pual taking an independant shot...
 
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Steve said:
with you three supporting Huckabee, I'll take another look at him.... :shock:

I have long said that the republican voters have not voted yet...

Rudy is set to get out, the flu test thing is a way for him to "signal" to the other players a deal could be made... bet he is the next "homeland security chief"...

as for Fred... well when he wakes up, he'll get a legal defence fund and a new law and order gig...

that leaves Mitt, Huckabee,.. Hunter...
with Ron Pual taking an independant shot...

Hunters campaign is almost broke- and he can't pick up enough support--Huckabee is in bad finncial shape too, altho a big win in Iowa could solve that problem...Mitt is the born with a silver spoon billionaire that could/is keeping his own campaign going...Paul has the money, the support of the Libertarians, old conservatives, and military personel--and could be a player if this all comes down to some deal making.....

Then for the Repubs and Dems there is the one big IF still sitting there ----Bloomberg and a possible Independent run....

All the pollsters and election followers are saying that the Democrats are getting the huge share of campaign contributions --mainly because the public/corporate world thinks the Republicans are unelectable this year....
 
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