Comments on: Huckabee The Spoiler: But Is He A Religious Spoiler?

By: Grizzly Groundswell » Why I’m Voting for Mitt Romney Today!

Grizzly Groundswell » Why I’m Voting for Mitt Romney Today! — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 04:52:42 +0000

[...] kind of deal with McCain because he refuses to bash McCain but goes after Romney with a vengeance. This post makes the case for Huckabee being a spoiler and I think its blatantly obvious that at this stage of [...]

By: Lowell Brown

Lowell Brown — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 06:59:06 +0000

Lizzie: I think Huck’s motives are very suspect, but I am giving him the benefit of the doubt. He is a politician who uses religion cynically, in my view, and my hunch is that his ambition and ego drive him more than bigotry does. But bigotry may have a role.

By: lizzie

lizzie — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 06:48:25 +0000

Lowell,

I can’t agree with you about Huckabee’s motives. Do you realize he was the keynote speaker at the Baptist Anti Mormon conference in SLC a few years back?

By: coltakashi

coltakashi — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 13:52:03 +0000

Conservative political commentators have begun to discuss the fact that McCain is ahead in the delegate count even though he has not won the majority of conservative votes. My guess is that he figures that conservatives won’t have an option to the right of McCain, and would hardly pick the Democratic nominee over him. But that assumes they won’t just refrain from voting for president, or even write in someone else as an expression of protest and disgust. McCain clearly has worked to place himself in the middle of the political spectrum in the Senate. His major legislative achievements have been in conjunction with Democrats, and his actions like forming the Gang of 14 to finesse confrontation over judicial nominees and preserve filibusters show that he places the power of the Senate as an oligarchy above any ideological goal.

Indeed, I think the McCain-Feingold laws on campaign contributions are designed to uphold oligarchy rather than democracy. The laws preserve the communicative power of incumbent office-holders, of the commercial media, and of celebrities. As we saw with Michael Moore, as long as you can get people to pay to see your ads, there is no limit on how much advertising you can do against a candidate. As Oprah Winfrey has shown, there is no limit on how much a celebrity can donate in terms of joint media exposure. Just as gun control is primarily a shifting of power toward those who exempt themselves from regulation through criminal activity, campaign finance control is a shifting of power into the hands of those who don’t have to buy advertising to get their ideas out to the public.

If the Democratic Party had not made such an effort since the Vietnam War to identify itself as opposed to America’s position as the world’s only military superpower, it is hard to see any reason why McCain could not be a Democrat. As a career military officer, he was not politically active for most of his early adult life. Certainly his insistence on reducing spending before cutting taxes is something that Democrats also say, with the understanding that they will never reduce spending.

It is ironic that in a campaign where the media have endlessly repeated the assertion that Romney lacks political convictions, it is really McCain who fails to represent the conservative center of the Republican Party. In truth, McCain is much closer to Richard Nixon on the political scale than Reagan. Nixon created the EPA by executive order, and established wage and price controls. He was anti-communist, but not a conservative in 2008 terms on economic or social issues. And, in my own estimation, McCain has shown he is willing to distort the truth when it comes to Romney.

By: shashatina

shashatina — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 13:08:31 +0000

huckabee’s religion is behind everything because it defines him. When huckabee stated that the Mormons devil worshipped in the beginning of the campaign season, then that is and still now is huckabee’s religious and political definition. He is now and always will be a Mormon hater and will sell his soul rather than support a Mormon. I don’t think the pundits realize how much the baptists hate Mormons. It is freightening to hear their sermons about not listening to the devils. Wake up America. Huckabee is trying to do an end run around our political system. He has pulled the wool over your eyes. Romney for President. By the way, I was born and raised in the south and understand what the Bible belt really means.

By: 4thnephite

4thnephite — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 02:35:36 +0000

I wish to add, I like the fading away of the Presidential candidates, and for some odd reason I can see our Constitution rights fading away.

By: 4thnephite

4thnephite — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 02:32:47 +0000

That is what happened in the ’94 election. Republicans must get their act together and that is not behind McCain. I’m listening to Ann Coulter on Hannity and the other guy. I’m afraid she is right all of those people who have endorse McCain are expecting a job in Washington.
The people I have listen too will either not vote or vote for Hillary if McCain gets his way.
God help us all, the Book of Revelation is coming true in our lifetime

By: JLFuller

JLFuller — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:05:12 +0000

Pardon my disillusionment for minute but I am considering what might happen if Mitt does not get the nomination. I have been thinking about this for some time now and I am ready to make a recommendation. I think we should all vote for Hillary. It is a sure-fire way to galvanize the Republican Party for mid-term elections. It shouldn’t take but two years of Hillary care and Bill for us to come to our senses. And as we watch our country spiral downward and get caught in a whirlpool on its way to the sesspool we can be entertained by the selections from a jury pool. Think 2010 and be hopeful.