It’s looking like if Mitt Romney is picked as McCain’s running mate, it could cause a split in the Republican Party between people who are Huckabee and people who aren’t. We better be sure we can survive that before we proceed.
It’s looking like if Mitt Romney is picked as McCain’s running mate, it could cause a split in the Republican Party between people who are Huckabee and people who aren’t. We better be sure we can survive that before we proceed.
Dear Huckabee,
Shut up!
-GOP
I am a big Romney fan…hopin he gets the pick. I’d be way happy.
And for the IMAO record, I REALLY wanted to be on Fred’s team. I waited weeks for him to join the primariy. And alothugh i liked everything about his platform, it never seemed his heart was in it.
Huck—-stick to political analysis on Fox…at least you have entertaining analogies.
Romney would really get me into McCain’s camp. I think that would make a great team. However, it does worry me that it could split votes. We will see!
So, now that we allowed Huckabee to ruin our presidential pick, we’re supposed to allow him to ruin our VP pick too? Ummm…no thanks…screw him.
Mike Huckabee is living proof of Andy Warhol’s dictum about fifteen minutes of fame for everyone. He has achieved the dubious distinction of making about as much sense as Rosie O’Donnell or Cindy Sheehan.
There’s no room in the Republican Party for a religiously zealous Democrat. Just a normal one: McCain.
Oh, gawd. Did I say that?
If conservatives sulk because they got Romney and wanted Huckabee then they deserve the President Obama they will get.
Look at the record and character of Romney and Huckabee. Who do you want running the country or partyy if McCain falls ill or doesn’t seek a second term?
I would certainly pay more to see Agreeable Mike at a theatre. Or maybe he should try talk radio.
I think it’s time that Mike Huckabee split away from the Republican party and form his own political party: the Hucksters.
Yes, I know. Professionals make it look easy, shouldn’t try it at home, etc., etc.
There is NO BETTER choice for president or VP than Mitt in our opinion. It is interesting that those who accuse Mormons of not being Christian often act very unchristanlike. Mormons contribute to any community in which they live and fast 2 meals every month contributing what they would have spent for food to help others. The Church spends millions of dollars every year on humanitarian causes throughout the world. Mitt and his family have spent their lives contributing to these causes. Mitt was encouraged to run for president to help this country. It is not a matter of fame, power, and money with him. He succeeded academically and has had success in business understanding the economy and how it works. He had a perfect SAT score, graduated near the top of his class from respected universities and has spent his life rescuing businesses (saving more jobs than lost), cutting the tax burden to citizens of Massachusetts, cleaned up and saved the winter olympics, etc. There is much to admire in his personal and professional life. Why would any clear thinking American not want him to the VP or not vote for him because he is a Mormon? It seems jealously, evangelical hatred etc. must cloud clear vision.
On the Mitt/Mormon note: living in Nevada, I encounter a lot of Mormons. Friends of friends, teammates of my kids, etc. Beyond any other group of people that I’d like as a neighbor, it would be a Mormon. I haven’t found a group of people to be so consistently kind, generous, family oriented, etc.
The idea that “Christians” have a problem with Mormons escapes me.
Although, the only Mormon that I take issue with is Harry Reid.
(I do not mean to offend)
I would personally like to thank the above posters. Back when Mitt was running for President, there were quite a few people who through ignorance or arrogance tried to tell me what I believed. They said things that were not simply offensive but patently false. They demeaned things that I consider sacred and then they told me how righteous they were and how I was a heathen and was going to hell.
And these were my fellow “Christians” who were taking their cues from the Reverend Huckabee.
Our 13th Article of Faith:
“We claim the privilege of worshiping Almighty God according to the dictates of our own conscience, and allow all men the same privilege, let them worship how, where, or what they may.
Gee sounds like people who are just dying to take over the world, right?
As a Mormon, I have learned a lot from Harry Reid. He is the perfect example of why one should not vote for someone, just because they happen to attend the same church as you. Anyone can go to any church they want, and talk about how much it means to them, then once they get to Washington, vote in complete opposition to their faith. This is why I do not like Huckabee, not because he is the evangelical equal to Mitt Romney, but because he is the evangelical equal to Mr. Reid.
The issue with “dubious harry” reid isn’t that he’s a mormon. The issue is that he is an obnoxious idiot.
Sorry about not capitalizing “Mormon” in the above comment. It certainly wasn’t intentional.
Not a problem George, Mormons aren’t usually bothered by things like that.
Now Hairy Reid, he’s just offensive in general!
Sometimes in life the best examples are what NOT to do, or what NOT to be like. I’m grateful to Dingy Harry for his sterling example of how NOT to live my life. I can point him out to my friends who are not Mormon and say, “See there’s one in every group.”
I don’t believe that there is Really a great deal of opposition to Mitt or any other Mormon running for public office.
It’s just that those who oppose Mitt or Mormons for any reason are bound to get the most air-time from our media since stirring up division between conservatives of any faith is just so darn much fun!
Mitt’s real problem, as far as the MSM is concerned, is that he practiced what he preaches.
Anyone who seriously practices his/her faith will look like a dangerous radical to the secular humanists in the press.
Catholic, Baptist, Mormon, Evangelical … Anyone who can recite more than 5 of the 10 commandments by heart will get the same treatment; not because of their religion, but because of their conservatism.
If the pundits can presume to tell us we should ignore a candidate’s race, gender or past associations in the name of tolerance and equality, then they should ignore his/her religion as well!
I will be the first to admit that I don’t totally understand the LDS faith…of course, this is nothing new, because there are a lot of faith groups that I don’t understand. However, I do have my own personal experience with Mormons that I have gone to school with and who have befriended me at times where I was going through a rather rough patch, as it were. As far as I’m concerned, they were great people, and I totally agree with PammyV as to having LDS members as neighbors. However, I think this should be a moot point. Although I take my faith very seriously, and would have problems voting for someone from a radically different religion, I don’t vote for a “Theologian In Chief.” I’m voting for President of the United States (and therefore for his running mate), and, out of the current crop put forth, I believe Romney to be the best qualified and most outstanding candidate for Vice President.
I am in agreement with you Joseph. I don’t think that a persons religion should be the subject of political discussions, unless that religion calls for say the annialation of another group of people. In that case, unfortunately religion will be part of the equation.
Like the groups you mentioned most members of the LDS faith want to live their lives as peacefully and productively as they can. While there are some who have had unfortunate experiences with members of the LDS faith, I would ask them if they would judge every Evangelical by the Huckabee standard, every person from Arkansas by the Clintons standard, every actor by the Susan Sarandon standard or every politician by the Nanny Pelosi standard.
Every village has their idiot.
I don’t care what Romney’s religion is. I don’t trust him because he is a chameleon, and the fact that the MSM is promoting him should be a warning sign.
Huckabee is an idiot, and I do not want him for VP either. But he is 100% right on this issue.
http://palinforvp.blogspot.com
During the primaries, I was promoting Mitt to all my friends. I have one who said she would NEVER vote for him because she was concerned about the power the LDS Church would have. She thinks Mormonism is cultish. I assured her that those worries were unfounded. But it was surprising to me…she was actually supporting Huck..yuck!
Anyway, I think Mitt has the right resume, has been successful in everything he touches, is a good debater and he LOOKS presidential (I know it’s superficial, but it is an important element) And he’s squeeky clean!
Thanks Damien. I was beginning to think I’d died and gone to someplace really nice. I knew it was too good to last.
I guess a chameleon means he has managed to succeed in everything he has attempted. Heck, I wouldn’t want anybody like that in a position of authority in our government. We might actually become the country we were under President Reagan. We might be able to pay our debts, we might have a decent economy, we might keep some of the jobs now flowing to the third world.
If you support Palin that’s fine with me. I’m not going to say that she has neither the political or business experience necessary to be a viable candidate because I don’t KNOW that. Nor do I think that anyone who supports her is a rabid right wing nut job neo con.
I respect your choice as I would hope you would…….. Oh wait we already went there. That’s what occasioned this post. My bad. After all we wouldn’t want to cause infighting within the party enabling the enemy to slip in and seize control, would we?
I love the fact that the only things people can find ‘wrong’ with Mitt is that he’s a ‘chameleon’ (like seanmahair said we surely wouldn’t want anyone who has succeeded in everything he does especially things pertaining to government and economy) and he’s ‘too religious’ (Sooo horrible to have someone who has good morals and a sticks to what he believes in).
Personally I hope he gets pick and McCain kicks the bucket. That might make me a bad person but hey, at least I’m in good company with everyone else here.
I think what people mean by chameleon, is that Romney tries/tried to blend in everywhere he went. From that cring-inducing viedo of him asking “who let the dawgs out” to black kids in Detroit, to his significantly liberal record as the governor of MA.
That’s what worries me about Romney: not his religion, but the fact that his record as governor is at odds with what he says he supports now. Granted, MA is a ridiculously liberal state, and he couldn’t have been elected if he ran as a true (social) conservative.
Now, I believe Romney when he says he will oppose abortion and same-sex marriage as POTUS (or VP). I think he is the likely choice and the best choice for VP at this point, but his record does leave some room for doubt.
I know I have used up my posting time on this one but one last thing. I appreciate your feelings Ernie and can understand them. I guess where I come down on this is that when Mitt became governor of M.A. he swore to do the will of the people, not swore the people would do what he wanted. I want a president that feels like that.
While I realize that “the people” aren’t always right, we are more often right than not and in the end it is “our” government. We get to choose, and choice is an eternal concept. That’s democracy for you. Messy, convoluted, complicated but the best government around. Just as anyone who’s ever lived without it.