Corralling the conservatives
To date, many on the right have gone left, and many left, a bit right. Even now our own GOP candidates are wrestling over who is truly conservative.
At the last round of debates, Fred Thompson, degraded by his own dilapidating campaign and threatened by Mike Huckabee's lead in the polls, tried to liberalize Mike by saying:
This is a battle for the heart and soul of the Republican Party and its future. On the one hand, you have the Reagan revolution. You have the Reagan coalition of limited government and strong national security. On the other hand, you have the direction that Gov. Huckabee would take us in. He would be a Christian leader, but he would also bring about liberal economic policies, liberal foreign policies.
Even radio host Rush Limbaugh heckled Huckabee with a similar liberal lashing, accusing him of not being a conservative in the line of Ronald Reagan – an unfortunate "Rush to judgment."
The only truth in their words is that they could not be further from the truth.
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Will the real conservative please stand up?
As I've already shown in my past WND columns, most liberal accusations against Mike Huckabee's record on immigration, taxes and crime are also biased, out-of-context rushes to judgment.
The complete record and platform of this former Arkansas governor reveals a tried-and-true conservative. He has consistently stood for pro-life, pro-education, pro-military, pro-death penalty, pro-God, pro-constitutional, pro-middle America, pro-small business, pro-marriage, pro-legal immigration, less government, less taxes, fiscal solvency, etc., positions.
As Huckabee himself summarized, "Now if that's not conservative, somebody needs to hand me a new book and show me what conservatism is about."
But who better to discern a conservative than one who knew Reagan better than Limbaugh, Thompson or most of us: Ed Rollins, the man who led Reagan to victory in 1984 and is now the national campaign manager for Huckabee. He already testified about Huckabee: "I was with the old Reagan, and I can promise you this man comes as close as anyone to filling those shoes."
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2 comments:
No question, the best conservative "endorsement" is Ed Rollins. Regardless of Thompson's energetic responses (which he appeared to read at the debate), his run for the White House is over. Trying to take Huckabee down didn't work. Huckabee is sharp and witty, but he also knows his positions, which haven't changed. My major problem with Thompson is that he voted for McCain-Feingold and that isn't conservative one whit.
Romney's over, too. He's not connecting with voters. He seems arrogant to me, and rather plastic. John McCain's energy astounds me. I mostly like what he has to say, and I would support him if he were the candidate (despite McCain-Feingold and amnesty), but my choice is Mike Huckabee. He's the best out there. Maybe having a former pastor in the White House is just what this country needs. Every president we've had has confessed to being a Christian, or going to church. But that's not the reason I'm supporting Huckabee. He's "sharp and witty", yeah, but he can articular his positions (which I mostly agree with) better than anyone running, either side. And he's consistent. He hasn't changed positions.
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