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Having now read through the comments on my post from last night, I think some don’t understand where I am coming from on this particular matter.
2008 is over and done with, and as Haley Barbour eloquently stated:
“Anybody here tonight who’s talking about the 2012 presidential election needs to get their eye on the ball”
I will admit that I was angry when I wrote the post, to put it mildly, but i find it revealing that the Boston Herald, who at times was highly critical of Mitt Romney during the primary process, today has a post praising him for “rising above the fray.” Governor Tim Pawlenty is giving the Star Tribune “very little” to work with, in regards to a possible run in 2012.
Huckabee, on the other hand, is out supporting his new book, which apparently could be titled “Mitt and Me.” While some Huckabee supporters have argued that the criticisms he aims at his supposed former rivals are just a small portion of his book, the Chicago Tribune’s Washington Bureau kindly refutes that point today:
Mike Huckabee’s new book about the 2008 primary race is titled “Do the Right Thing,” although the ‘right thing’ might have been to name the book, “Mitt Romney is a Big Fat Spender.”
Romney’s expensive media consultants?
His 40 rented golf carts at the Iowa Straw Poll?
The fact that he spent multi-millions to lose the nomination?
All that perceived profligacy and ineptitude appears to delight Huckabee to no end and few pages in the book pass without a mention of ‘ol Mitt’s mistakes.
In fact, Romney appears more in “Do the Right Thing” than any person except Huckabee himself, according to the book’s own index, and about 99.9 percent of Romney’s appearances ain’t pretty, of course.
While Governor Huckabee may succeed in reinvigorating his base support, he also pushes some of his critics, like myself, to defend Mitt Romney, a feat that would’ve been considered a sure sign of the coming Apocolypse if anyone were familiar with my feelings towards the latter during the past primary season. I’m not alone in this, as there are some who considered themselves anti-Mitt and even some who were pro-Huckabee, who come to the same conclusions over this as I do.
A few have brought up the fact that my post last night engages in the same type of tactics that I accuse Huckabee of doing, and I plead guilty of all charges. The difference is that I am not in the running to be considered the new leader of the GOP, and my opinions are nothing more than opinions.
I don’t like getting riled up like I did when I wrote the post last night, but I was, and still am, angry. I’m angry that the GOP imploded during the 2008 election. I’m angry that this is a party that has been left without a clear vision, direction, or leader for the future. I’m angry that Mike Huckabee feels that the best way to garner support is to start attacking possible future rivals for the 2012 nomination when not even a month has passed since the elections.
Above all else, the two things that anger me most are that Governor Huckabee seems unwilling to let Mitt Romney work towards rebuilding the GOP, a goal that he proclaims to share, and that Governor Huckabee can’t seem to understand that just because one is a Christian doesn’t mean that they are required to support him.
November 19th, 2008 at 1:08 pm
“but i findly it revealing”
I spy with my little eye…
November 19th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
thanks. I still can’t get the hang of typos and my keyboard.
November 19th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
I’m just hoping Palin completely extinguishes any support Huckabee has left. Although I like some canidates better than Palin, she’s a hundred times better than this coward. Our party would be a lot better off without him in the POTUS picture.
November 19th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
Huckabee’s recently published attacks may invigorate his fanatic base, but I see the ceiling lowering on him even further.
November 19th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
How many anti-Huckabee post can be posted in 24 hours….I think your setting the record.
November 19th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
#5 I’m pretty sure it has to do with Huckabee’s book and him taking shots at Romney, Thompson, Christian leaders…etc.
His targets are just responding, but I’m sure Huckabee doesn’t mind as it fuels book sales and thus his bottom line.
November 19th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
As someone who personally benefited from those rented golf carts, I would like to thank Gov. Romney for providing them.
It was seriously 101 degrees in Ames that day with like 80% humidity.
Dave, Gary, Barry Casselman, and myself would have never made the 5 mile trek back to our car without those carts.
Seriously, Mitt saved out lives by renting them!
November 19th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
You know, nothing would make me happier than to be able to put the 2008 primary season behind me. Huckabee pulled a number of low-life stunts that made me loathe his very name. However, it is time to move on. It is time to let bygones be bygones.
The only problem is Mike Huckabee makes it impossible to do so. If the man would just shut up about all the slights (real or imagined) he received, the memories of his antics would quickly fade. But he won’t let them.
I hate chewing on the bones of old grudges. It does you no good, and makes your life miserable. Apparently Mike Huckabee thinks differently.
Doesn’t he realize just how small and petty these continuing attacks on Romney make him appear? Can he possibly be that stupid?
November 19th, 2008 at 2:01 pm
Huckabbe speaks for alot of social conservatives who hate Romney. No one like a snake and a liar like Romney. People would just have diasgreed with him if he had ran as who he really was instead of the fabricated Romney he put out.
It is for good reason that every camp of the candidates in the primary hated Mitt. It was anyone but Romney in the primaries. Socons will never accept Romney for president. Never. There is too much hatred for that man.
November 19th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
#7, so you could not walk like the rest of the ‘people’?
Typical DC insider hack!
November 19th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
#9, you’re welcome to be specific, but please don’t mention any of the things that have been thoroughly debunked on here like 50 times or more. Good luck. He flipped on abortion, that’s all! PERIOD. He admits he has. So did our beloved Reagan flip, so did Bush 41, so have many people who we love to embrace. The other issues are all factually wrong! PERIOD. I wish everyone would have been here for the last two years, and read every post….and they would realize that what I’ve said is true. But some of you have had your head buried in the sand anytime anyone attempts to enlighten you on the subject of Mitt Romney. You refuse to listen or believe…its your problem, not Mitt’s.
November 19th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
#11
It was not just abortion, but every other cultural issue like gay rights. He flipped about three times on abortion. He was a social liberal in his political career.
Socons would not have minded if he had ran as the social liberal that he was. We hated him because he lied about being a Socon just to win Iowa.
Reagan and other Republicans flipped due to an authentic conversion. Romney flipped on purpose in order to become president. Romney became a Socon just to gain the nomination. He was starting to position himself. He knew he needed to act like a Socon to win Iowa.
Romney was supporting abortion months before his announcement to run for president. The man lied too much including his march with MLK. No pure Socon can trust a snake.
November 19th, 2008 at 3:04 pm
Ahh, and there we have it, Rafael …
For you and many of the other virulent SoCons, there is now a “purity” test. How sad.
November 19th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
#12
Your never going to win converts to the pro-life cause if you demonize then after they’ve done it. Last time i checked we pro lifers want more to join our ranks.
November 19th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
#12 – so wrong on the gay rights thing! We’ve gone over this a million times already. As Governor, he came down on the side of life every single time! Period, so even on the issue that he admits he flipped on, he governed consistently as a conservative every single time it came up, and every opportunity. I wish you all would have been here last year when this was so thoroughly hashed over.
November 19th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
His march with MLK? Are you seriously still talking about that? He said he saw his dad march with MLK. He didn’t say he literally ’saw’ him. His dad DID march in more than one civil rights march, and you don’t have to be in the same parade to be marching lock step with someone on an issue like civil rights. Mitt could have said that “My dad marched in several civil rights marches, and nobody would have been able to say anything, but because he phrased it as an “I saw”, he got hammered.
November 19th, 2008 at 4:26 pm
You better believe Socons have a purity test. We want authentic converts, not people who convert just for political gain.
As far as abortion mant SoCons like myself expect a no exceptions position.
November 19th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
No exceptions for the life of the mother, they both die?
November 19th, 2008 at 5:18 pm
If Illinoisguy definitions is the same one that Rafael is saying, then Huckabee would flunk the test too.
November 19th, 2008 at 7:28 pm
Rafael, from your posts, I have a pretty good idea why you opposed Romney and I believe it has nothing to do with his positions. He is not now was he ever a social liberal or a lying snake, I think you know this. But, he does happen to be of a certain religious persuasion.