Neal stands on principle and endorses Mike Huckabee today.
I do not have a link yet, as this was just announced on the air. I will update with links when they are posted online.
For info on who Neal Boortz is, see here and here.
From Wikipedia:
Neal Boortz (born April 6, 1945), is a U.S. talk radio host, commentator, lawyer, and best-selling author. His popular radio show, The Neal Boortz Show, is based in Atlanta, Georgia. Nationally syndicated by Cox Radio and the Jones Radio Networks, it is ranked sixth in overall listeners, with 3.75 million per week.A registered member of the Libertarian Party, Boortz touches on many controversial topics. He supports eliminating the war on drugs, lowering taxes, and shrinking the size of government, while disagreeing with the Libertarian Party platform by supporting incremental tax reform, the war in Iraq, and opposing unrestricted immigration. Like most libertarians, Boortz has sided with liberals on some social issues such as abortion, same-sex marriage, and civil liberties, while siding with fiscal conservatives on advocating less government spending and decreasing corporate regulation. On The Neal Boortz Show, he has criticized politicians, Muslim extremism, the homeless, “government schools”, liberals, smokers, the obese, cats, welfare recipients, and people who drive at or below the speed limit. On air, Boortz refers to himself an equal opportunity offender.
February 1st, 2008 at 11:18 am
“He supports eliminating the war on drugs…” But somehow finds comfort with Huckabee’s call for a national ban on smoking — thus, creating a war on cigarettes.
February 1st, 2008 at 11:18 am
Hilarious. A libertarian (to the point of lunacy) endorses a nanny-state social conservative, all because the nanny-stater adopted the so-called Fair Tax as a way to get some supporters to the Ames Straw Poll.
February 1st, 2008 at 11:20 am
Neal wrote the book on the FairTax(well, 2 books actually)of course he is going to endorse Huckabee on the FairTax and FairTax issue alone.
It would have been news if Neal had actually stood on his true libertarian principles and stand up against the nanny state, but in the end Neal is progmatic enough to recognize a continued uptick in book sales so long as Huckabee is still in the fight.
February 1st, 2008 at 11:22 am
Good for Jim Neighbors…
Laura Ingraham, Hannity, Mark Levin: All Reagan Style Republican (True Conservatives) are behind Romney.
The Conservative Movement has a chance!!! Time for Jim Neighbors to jump ship and get behind McGrumpy so that the real battle for the Republican Party can begin. Still three days left. Time to call all conservative movement soldiers to battle!!!
February 1st, 2008 at 11:25 am
Marksal, yes. Take some comfort that Boortz didn’t do it when it mattered, and only after it wouldn’t. Raises him back a notch in my view.
February 1st, 2008 at 11:29 am
This is going to be big down in Georgia! Great endorsement.
February 1st, 2008 at 11:30 am
It does matter.. Super Tuesday will effectively revitalize or seriously cripple Huckabeee’s run.
Timed it just right, as far as I’m conerned.
And get over the nanny stater mentality already. Huck was a GOOD governor. Arkansas improved under his governance.
Sometimes I think libertarians would rather states ran themselves into the ground rather than actually have a leader at all.
What’s the point of having a governor then *rolling eyes*
February 1st, 2008 at 11:31 am
McCain will beat Huckabee in Georgia.
February 1st, 2008 at 11:31 am
A libertarian voting for Mike Huckabee is like a chicken voting for Col. Sanders.
Huckabee proposed all kinds of nanny state health regulations in AR. He didn’t give a hoot in hell about small business, his health mandates cost them thousands.
February 1st, 2008 at 11:33 am
What a sell-out!!!!
I agree with Neal Boortz on virtually everything, and here he comes out and endorses someone that I disagree with on virtually everything?
Still, the importance of this endorsement can be summed up by this sentence, from the article:
For info on who Neal Boortz is, see here and here.
February 1st, 2008 at 11:34 am
7, the point of having a governor is to oppose the nanny state regulations of the left, rather than be their chief sponsor.
February 1st, 2008 at 11:34 am
This may actually help Mitt. This may cause some McCain to go Huckabee, and Mitt’s support will stay pretty solid.
February 1st, 2008 at 12:05 pm
Neal Boortz has been stumping for Huckabee since last summer. How many times has he said (referring to Huckabee): “I could just kiss that man right on the mouth!” This gives you an idea of why Boortz favors the gay agenda. Politics, they say, makes strange bedfellows.
February 1st, 2008 at 12:09 pm
Didn’t Boortz write a book on the Fair Tax?
Without meaning to sound too cynical, but this would seem to be a respectable pay-back for increased royalties from book sales.
February 1st, 2008 at 12:57 pm
http://youtube.com/watch?v=_bVyLaU4HDY
February 1st, 2008 at 1:19 pm
I thought Mitt was supposed to be good at numbers??? According to RCP Mitt is only 1.1% ahead of Mike. That is proof this IS NOT a 2 man race. More and more people are realizing Mike is the only consistent candidate when it comes to voting for values we hold dear. Last week Rush said the majority of his listeners won’t be getting the stimulus rebates; which means he thinks his listeners are richer than average. If the other talk show hosts are pandering to the same elite class; that explains their hatred to the populist candidate, Mike Huckabee. Don’t they realize Mike supports the Fair Tax because he does not want to penalize productivity.
Most Americans earn less money than Rush’s “main” audience. “We the people†don’t see anything wrong with a presidential candidate being someone who is “a believer in the rights, wisdom, or virtues of the common people.†(m-w.com definition) We like the only candidate that has consistently held our values. We know where Mike will stand tomorrow because his walk talks the same as his talk talks. Visit mikehuckabee.com to see where he stands on the issues. If how much has been spent per vote is any clue to their fiscal responsibility; Mike wins on all counts.
February 1st, 2008 at 1:22 pm
It’s amazing that such cynical people, as many of the commenters here appear to be, are not more suspicious about the political propaganda and exercising their own due diligence. Would you really be inclined to believe accusations made against your candidate by people who have a significantly vested interest in seeing that man’s downfall without checking out the possibility that someone is either lying or twisting the truth?
Even if Mike Huckabee is not your personal choice, he is clearly a good man and was an effective governor. And there is one thing that you all have proven him to be indisputably right about – the lack of civility in public discourse & the polarization of our people is making it impossible for us to move the country forward!
February 1st, 2008 at 1:26 pm
From CBSNews.com (http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/02/01/politics/fromtheroad/entry3778161.shtml)
“Meantime, Huckabee said he had raised an additional $3.5 million in January after starting the year with just over $650,000 on hand. He emphasized how much the campaign had done with so little money. Huckabee also skewered Romney for spending “tens of millions of dollars to have the same market share as me.â€
“Under anybody’s business model, that’s not a very efficient or effective operation,†he said. “If you have an MBA from Harvard, and you believe in trying to figure out the best way to build market share and you spend an enormous amount of money and you have a competitor spends a very small amount of money, but he’s able to reach the same market share, it may say that that person has a more sellable product than you do. So maybe it would be appropriate to go out of business and merge your business with the one that has the more efficient model.”
February 1st, 2008 at 2:36 pm
The lady who told Huckabee he was going to be showered with questions. She fooled me, but she didn’t fool Huckabee. What a dirty rotten joke.
February 1st, 2008 at 2:55 pm
This is great news. Not all the talking radio heads have to fall into the “I support Romney because he owns my radio station.” This is still a 4 man race. Neither Mike Huckabee or Ron Paul has thrown in the towel.
Mike Huckabee was a very successful, conservative governor. Time magazine voted him one of the top 5 governors in the whole country. Where was Mitt? Mike Huckabee has the most conservative and detailed plan on immigration. Mike Huckabee has been CONSISTENT on his support for human life. He has not flip flopped on all the issues as Romney has. How can anyone say that the Democrats won’t do to Romney what the Republicans did to John Kerry on flip flopping? You know they will. It’s revenge time for them if Romney is the nominee.
Huckabee has fought and won the Clinton political machine 4 times. No one else has. He knows how they think and he knows how dirty they fight and he still beat it back. Mike Huckabee is the only true conservative left running. That’s why Duncan Hunter endorsed him. Mr. Conservative himself. Take another thorough look at Mike on his website.
http://www.mikehuckabee.com
February 1st, 2008 at 4:36 pm
This is great news! This goes to prove that all the “conservative” radio hosts have not sold out to Romney, the “closet liberal”, who disguises himself as being “conservative”. Thank you Neal! Mike Huckabee is the only conservative (socially, fiscally, and foreign policy wise) left in the race. Mike Huckabee is still strongly in this race, in spite of what the main stream media is trying to shove down our American throats.
Check out Mike Huckabee for yourself. http://www.mikehuckabee.com
February 1st, 2008 at 5:02 pm
Finally, someone who did some checking into facts. Huckabee is the only true conservative in this race. I’m glad to see Boortz put his conservative credentials behind Huckabee. If Limbaugh had done some work instead of swallowing Romney’s distortions about Huckabee hook, line and sinker, I might actually still respect Limbaugh. Not anymore. Limbaugh now passes on the lies and makes them sound like truth. Huckabee is CONSERVATIVE. I don’t have the time or the typing ability to list every one of Huckabee’s conservative credentials. Do the research yourselves. Go back and check old Arkansas newspaper archives. You’ll be shocked to find that Limbaugh is completely misrepresenting Governor Huckabee’s policies, principles and philosophy of governing. It is almost painful to listen to my talk show hero passing on information that is blatantly false. Is he deliberately lying? If so, why? I’ve turned him off for now because it is too painful. My hero – no longer!
February 1st, 2008 at 5:51 pm
Guys, this poll from Fox news today gives the lie:
(From http://www.foxnews.com/projects/pdf/0201
08_election_release_web.pdf)
7. If John McCain and Mitt Romney were the only choices in the Republican
primary, how would you vote?
30-31 Jan 08
Republicans: McCain 62%/ Romney 29/ (Don’t know) 6/ (Would not vote) 3
Not only is Huckabee NOT taking votes from Romney, but clearly a vote for Romney is actually a vote for McCain!!! (since Huck’’s votes would mainly go to McCain if Huck dropped out)
February 1st, 2008 at 5:59 pm
Mike Huckabee is the only true conservative choice.
February 1st, 2008 at 6:36 pm
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February 1st, 2008 at 6:40 pm
Neal Boortz is a talking point shill. He’s almost as fake as Lou Dobbs. Ron Paul is the only guy that is actually fighting for the things they pay lip service to daily, yet they try to ignore him.
February 1st, 2008 at 7:23 pm
The GOP primary is NOT a 2-man race as some in the media are trying to spin it. Mike Huckabee is only a fraction behind Mitt Romney and has a much better chance of closing the gap with McCain than Romney who has clearly maxed out his support (all the love that money can’t buy!).
We conservatives still have a chance against McCain (see the Fox poll numbers above) if we can rally quickly behind Huckabee!