(2007-11-14) — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, the presumptive frontrunner in Iowa, today attacked former second-tier rival Mike Huckabee for surging in the polls at the expense of the wealthier, better-funded Mr. Romney.
“How are we different than the Democrats,” Mr. Romney asked rhetorically, “if we simply take from the rich what they have rightfully earned, and give it to people who have no hope of succeeding? When Gov. Huckabee siphons off my popularity to boost his dead-end campaign, it’s nothing but a socialistic redistribution scheme that violates a fundamental principle of this land of opportunity.”
Meanwhile, GOP candidate Fred Thompson wrote to Mr. Romney today asking the former Massachusetts governor to “throw in a gratuitous attack on me every once in a while, Mitt.”
Mr. Thompson explained that “getting slammed by a rival generates more media attention for my candidacy, with very little effort on my part, thereby allowing me to spend even more time away from the campaign trail with my young children and wife.”
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1 boberinyetagain // Nov 14, 2007 at 7:55 am
The horror! Good one Scott!
Morning folks
2 egospeak // Nov 14, 2007 at 7:56 am
Everthink, re: 137 (2 threads ago)
Your question is a serious one and deserves a serious answer. I won’t be able to get to it until tonight because of a doctors appointment and work obligations, however I will post my reply on whatever is the current thread tonight.
MAY GOD HAVE MERCY ON AMERICA.
Regards,
3 Libby Gone // Nov 14, 2007 at 8:01 am
Maybe a “War on Prosperity” to fight hopelessness? Sounds like good Liberalism to me.
4 Ms RightWing, Ink // Nov 14, 2007 at 8:18 am
Another governor from Arkansas. Hmm, gotta think about that.
5 Possumtrot // Nov 14, 2007 at 8:19 am
Great Scott’s been at this since the early morning hours!
I get up a 0400 to start the news day. He’s got me pounded into the dust!
I have no problem with Romney. He believes in a Higher Power and that counts for more in this neck of the woods than whatever flavor that belief is.
I hang out with Jehovah’s Witnesses because I consider them intellectually challenging. I explained to them long ago that I’m not a free agent; my team is Baptist. They don’t try to recruit me, and we have some interesting theological discussions.
I have fewer problems with a Mormon being president than I do with Osama Bamalama, the She-devil Her own self, or even an honorable veteran like McCain.
I’m a Fred Thompson kind of guy, but he needs to get a bit more energetic with his campaign. These Socialist demons will have control of the country before we can cough and spit, much less turn around.
6 camojack // Nov 14, 2007 at 8:20 am
How come, since Huckabee is an ordained Baptist minister an’ all, the big religious organizations aren’t backing him instead of Giuliani?
7 Possumtrot // Nov 14, 2007 at 9:02 am
Huckabee did quite well when he went toe-to-toe with O’Reilly about his beliefs.
It’s a shame he doesn’t have a snowball’s chance in the election, but mainstream religion is running scared; they’re taking the pragmatic approach to a winner on the Republican side, because the alternative is too terrible to contemplate.
I don’t know if the Republicans can win next fall. I may end up “wasting” my vote on my Libertarians. I want to see who the conservative nominee is, and I want some serious answers from a serious candidate.
I look at the other side of the aisle, and I break into a cold sweat.
I can sympathize with Giuliani about his divorces, but I’m not running for president, so my ex-wives don’t matter.
8 Fred Sinclair // Nov 14, 2007 at 10:54 am
What ever happened to Duncan Hunter? I don’t hear anything about him - did he drop out already?
I don’t “like” RINO’s but the worst of them is better than Mrs. Bill and/or her cohorts.
Heirborn Ranger
9 boberinyetagain // Nov 14, 2007 at 11:02 am
Possum, amen, we can “waste” our votes together and, someday enough others will “waste” theirs and someone decent might even get elected. Probably not in my lifetime but hey, it’s worth a shot…
10 da Bunny // Nov 14, 2007 at 11:26 am
Fred, re: Duncan Hunter, I believe he’s still in the race, but he doesn’t get the press he deserves. I really like the guy…he’s a true conservative and a true patriot. He and Tom Tancredo, another fave of mine, are probably the most conservative of the Republican candidates, but neither one has a viable chance at the nomination, unfortunately.
11 gafisher // Nov 14, 2007 at 11:50 am
Mike Huckabee’s chances are very good; all his negatives are all prejudicial and circumstantial.
*Yes, he’s from Arkansas — from Hope, as a matter of fact — but like Cain and Abel, Jacob and Esau, or Reagan and Brown, you can’t judge one person based on someone else’s performance in similar circumstances.
*Yes, he’s riding in from a fog of obscurity, lacking both the name recognition and the funding of the frontrunners, yet his grassroots campaign is moving him ahead faster and farther than pragmatism (one of the deadliest -isms) would ever have predicted.
*Yes, “Huckabee” is a funny name. Learn it. Love it. Vote it!
12 gafisher // Nov 14, 2007 at 11:58 am
Possumtrot Re#7: If everyone would “waste” their vote on someone in whose principles they believed instead of “making it count” by trying to pick whoever looked most “popular,” we just might find ourselves with principled elected officials instead of crowd-pleasing politicians.
13 Fred Sinclair // Nov 14, 2007 at 12:01 pm
e.t. - I wasn’t being rude at all. Since I had just answered your question - it was logical to presume that possibly you had been unable to read it.
You wrote: “From your answer may I conclude one who opposes “Pat†Robertson, or the views of the late Jerry Falwell, or those of Charles Dobson can still be a Christian?” Charles? I’m sure it’s James - unless you have a different Dobson in mind that I’ve never heard about.
The three you mentioned and a host of others - I disagree strongly with some of their views. As an example in 1957 while stationed on the Island of Crete I took several correspondence courses with Moody, yet later when I tried to attend Moody, I was told that since I smoked cigarettes I was automatically inelligible to attend their school.
50 years later, I still smoke a pack of cigarettes a day. They were entitled to their view and just because my view was that they are wrong does not amount to either of us being “Non-Christians”. They view smoking as a bad work but Eph. 2:8,9 stipulates that works (good or bad) cannot affect - in any way - our Salvation.
Chrles Spurgeon smoked over a dozen cigars a day, yet they still read and teach his books. He was the “Billy Sunday or Billy Graham of his day. Considered by many to be among the “best of the best”.
The three you mentioned do not drink any adult beverages. That’s their choice since it’s not my choice that doesn’t make them a “better” or “worse” Christian than myself.
Before he died, my brother Tim and I often had serious disagreements, none of which affected our relationship.
When Dr. James Dobson visited Ted Bundy, before his execution - he was convinced Ted had become a Christian, while in prison. He served Ted Communion and with the absence of bread and wine, used M&M’s and orange juice. Many of “the religious folks” (with not even a clue) loudly condemmed the heresy. (opinion profoundly at odds with what is generally accepted)
heresy |ˈherÉ™sÄ“| noun ( pl. -sies) belief or opinion contrary to orthodox religious (esp. Christian) doctrine : Huss was burned for heresy | the doctrine was denounced as a heresy by the pope. • opinion profoundly at odds with what is generally accepted : cutting capital gains taxes is heresy | the politician’s heresies became the conventional wisdom of the day.
Yes, e.t. with all our warts and scars - totally without merit - our belief in Jesus - by God’s grace is what makes us Christians.
Heirborn Ranger
14 Fred Sinclair // Nov 14, 2007 at 1:38 pm
The Sierra Club’s members and supporters are more than 1.3 million of your friends and neighbors.
Rush has an audience in excess of 22 million.
Over 20 million are Conservatives, the rest are liberals who enjoy the entertainment or are Media types who want to hang him.
Why shouuld Congress listen to The Sierra Club’s 1.3 million and at the same time ignore Rush’s 20 million? I wondered - then the light bulb came on. The liberals in Congress know they already have Sierra’s gang. (and don’t want to risk losing them) and they also know Rush’s 20 million wouldn’t vote for them, except perhaps at gunpoint.
So that’s why they kowtow to Sierra on offshore drilling and building new oil refineries, etc. So the next time you fill your gas tank, don’t forget to send a note of thanks to Sierra.
Heirborn Ranger
15 Just Ranting // Nov 14, 2007 at 2:10 pm
Camo re: #6
Good question!
I like Mike. I have ever since I heard him speak on the Sean Hannity program even before he declared his candidacy. He is very intelligent with a great self depricating sense of humor. He has a good handle on the issues which you can learn about on his website:
http://www.mikehuckabee.com/index.cfm?FuseAction=Blogs.View&Blog_id=702
and
http://www.mikehuckabeepresident2008.blogspot.com/
16 gafisher // Nov 14, 2007 at 2:21 pm
Fred Re#13: “Chrles Spurgeon smoked over a dozen cigars a day, yet they still read and teach his books.”
Spurgeon was famously questioned once if his smoking damaged his testimony. Spurgeon admitted it might “If I ever smoke to excess.”
“And what would that be?” he was asked. “If I smoked two cigars at the same time,” Spurgeon replied.
17 Ms RightWing, Ink // Nov 14, 2007 at 2:37 pm
re# 17
I had a good cigar over Labor Day. I’m not a smoker (hate cigarettes) but I rather enjoyed it. Someone and I wojn’t say who, said it was Cuber cigar.
Always good for conjuring up stories.
18 Fred Sinclair // Nov 14, 2007 at 3:48 pm
I don’t know if this is true or not, it could have been a phony story planted by a member of the Anti-smoking Gestapo.
The story is a real, emotinal, tear jerking, piece - worthy of Clinton, Inc. (f they had been around back then).
It seems that Pastor Spurgeon was in town, walking down the sidewalk, when he passed a tobacco store. He observed two young boys he recognized as being from his congregation, looking at the window display. One boy pointed and Spurgeon overheard the boy say to the other, “That’s the brand of cigar Pastor Spurgeon smokes and when I grow up that’s the brand I’m going to smoke.”
Spurgeon interupted the boys and said, “Boys, Pastor Spurgeon doesn’t smoke any more.” he then went home and threw away all of his cigars and never smoked again for the rest of his life. The reason I feel the story is suspect is that I read it in one of the pamphlets printed and distributed by “Moody Press”.
Heirborn Ranger
[Editor's Note: Additional documentation on Spurgeon's love of cigars.]
19 everthink // Nov 14, 2007 at 11:21 pm
Fred,
Thank for your answer.
It was Moody’s loss, and sadly, the church has often rejected its best.
I could never stand to watch Jim Bakker before he was sent to prison, since his release I think he has found the Gospel in a much fuller way.
When I was a young man I could not believe that the events I now see happening were possible, the Books of Daniel and Revelation notwithstanding. I now believe The Church has largely forsaken its First Love and lost sight of its mission.
ET
20 everthink // Nov 14, 2007 at 11:27 pm
Fred,
I agree, Dobson did well! It reminds me of Philip and the Ethiopian eunuch.
21 camojack // Nov 15, 2007 at 1:34 am
Ms RightWing, Ink :
That reminds me; I want to remember to take another one of my cigars with me on vacation next week…
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