GOP Debate…HUCKABEE — Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

Carl Cameron, “Governor Huckabee, your advisor, Ed Rollins, recently said the Reagan coalition of economic, social, and national security conservatives is gone. You’ve been quoted as saying that you’re not running for another Reagan term. Tell us, sir, what part of the coalition is gone and what has it been replaced by?“

HUCKABEE: The Reagan coalition has certainly not seen those same middle-class, working-class Republicans feeling a part of the Republican Party as they should. Over the years, sometimes Republicans have thought that one part of that coalition was more important than the other. I think they’re all important, and we need to recapture them. But we need to make sure that we can communicate that our party is just as interested in helping the people who are single moms, who are working two jobs, and still just barely paying the rent; as we are the people at the top of the economy.

That’s exactly right, folks!

We’ve gotta talk to these people making a hundred grand who have to take public transport. We have to reach out to these single moms whose 18-year-old daughters have to wake up an hour early in Los Angeles, to take public transportation to go to the ice cream scooping job. We have to acknowledge that this suffering and this pain is going on and that we’re going to have, what?

A new Reagan coalition of Big Government to fix it!
[oxymoron for the Decade]

That’s not what conservatism is.
It’s not what Reaganism was.

Reaganism did not steer such people to the governments for solutions. Reaganism steered people inwardly. It steered people to themselves. It inspired people to realize that they could be far better than they thought they could be, that they had more potential than they realized.

Reagan conservatism had as its purpose the uplifting of all people, not looking at people and seeing them as members of groups and bestowing victim status or sympathy upon them and saying, “I, a politician, in Washington will fix you.”

In all my life, there hasn’t been one Big Oil CEO, hasn’t been one Big Drug CEO. There hasn’t been a CEO of any organization that did me any harm. There hasn’t been one CEO that could! I don’t care how much the guy made or she made; I don’t care what they were being paid. Throughout the course of my life, there has not been one CEO of any large- or medium-size American corporation who has harmed me, who has tried to harm me, or who could.

But throughout my life, there have been politicians too numerous to mention who could cause me great angst with policies of increased taxes, increased regulation, and telling me what I can and can’t do with my property; telling me what kind of lightbulbs I can’t use in 2012; telling me what kind of stupid little car I have to drive in 12 years.

But no CEO is telling me this.

So this business about, “We’ve gotta start understanding victims out there and that we offer solutions when government programs,” you can call it what you want, and you can espouse that and be for it.

Do not call it Reaganism.
Do not call it conservatism.

The Democrat Party today has more wealthy constituents in its states and districts than the Republican Party does.

It’s another myth just like the Democrats are directly responsible for making the civil rights movement happen.

It’s not true! And that’s why I cringe when I hear Republicans like Governor Huckabee falling into this trap, or maybe purposely going into it, implying that Republicans don’t care about the downtrodden.

The whole point of conservatism is to lift the downtrodden.

The whole point of liberalism is to keep ’em suppressed and then lower the rich and punish achievement!

This is frankly absurd for a Republican candidate to start running and talking that the Republicans don’t care about little people.

Mrs. Clinton, was in Las Vegas yesterday, walking Hispanic neighborhoods – did you see the video?

Out there going door-to-door, walking Hispanic neighborhoods, walking inside some people’s houses, sitting down and talking to them, talking about the sub-prime mortgage.

“Clinton said unscrupulous lending leads to bad mortgages, which lead to foreclosures, which lead to people with nowhere to go and vacant neighborhoods that can go rapidly downhill. ‘We treat these problems as if one is guacamole and one is chips, when … they both go together,’ she said.”

We treat the problem as if one is guacamole and one is chips?

I mean, you let a Republican say this about a bunch of Hispanics. hu?

She was walking down the street with all the entourage, and let me just give you some of these quotes from this story.

Las Vegas Review Journal.

“Gilberto Santana, 38, sat on the edge of a chair as Clinton sat on the brown leather sofa in his living room next to his wife and two young children. Santana told Clinton how his wife, Elizabeth, a housekeeper on the Strip, was barely supporting the family single-handedly while he was unable to work for two months because of an operation. ‘We’re sort of struggling,’ he said. ‘We’re getting there, but you have to be strong to make it.’ Clinton asked the couple questions about their mortgage and his disability payments, and answered his questions about immigration and the war and health care costs. Stroking the 4-year-old girl’s head, Clinton said, ‘I feel so strongly that if we don’t take care of our children, we don’t take care of our future.’ Santana said, ‘We are going to do everything we can to make sure that everyone in Las Vegas votes for you.’

… In broken English, one woman told Clinton how she wasn’t making money as a broker anymore. ‘I have no income at all,’ she said. ‘So how will I survive?’ Choking up with emotion, the woman said, ‘In my neighborhood, there are brand-new homes, but the value is nothing. I’m glad you are here so I can tell you, because you’re going to be the president, I know.’ A man shouted through an opening in the wall that his wife was illegal. ‘No woman is illegal,‘ Clinton said, to cheers.”

“No woman is illegal,” Mrs. Clinton in Las Vegas, drumming up votes for the Las Vegas caucus.

She wants to head up ICE, immigration, control, endorsement.

“No woman is illegal”?

Is this playing the ‘gender’ card? …playing the illegal immigrants; “Get a free ‘Green-Card’ card’? …playing the ‘under-age’ card? …playing the ‘victim’ card?

“No woman is illegal.”

Hell… woman, pick a damn card!

What game are you playing now?
Getting hard to keep up with your moods…

01.14.08 Update:

We can now add the ‘race’ card to Mrs. Clinton’s hand.

This is just getting ridiculous. <sigh>

You know, this is a great piece by Robert Samuelson who writes for Newsweek in the Washington Post, “Change for our Children.”

All these candidates are talking about change, and he defines what really good change for the kids — for children — would be: things like tax cuts for their parents and so forth.

More to follow:

Reference: Change for our Children.

SAVING THE WORLD – ONE GOLDEN GLOBE AT A TIME.

Have you seen how everybody is moaning and whining that the Golden Globes have been canceled?

Oh, yeah, they’re whining that there won’t be a big awards show, that there won’t be any big parties out there, limo drivers a thousand bucks a day, not getting any jobs, all the caterers, nothing going on, nothing to do, just horrible.

There’s a bonus here that nobody is thinking about.

We’re not going to have to listen to Golden Globe winners pontificate on politics, as they accept their awards.

I think it’s probably good news for the environment.

These award shows have an incredible carbon footprint that probably is not offset. No limos driving around, caterers not having to fire up the kitchens, hotels with not full occupancy, it’s a good thing for the environment…

…particularly out here in California.

but hey… we’ll still be the laughing stock of America… (sigh)

This is funny.

If you go to the Democrat Underground, one of these fringe nut websites, they think there was fraud in New Hampshire on the Democrat side — at least they are being consistent!

Remember after the 2004 election, the presidential race? This is so funny…

All the exit polls had Kerry winning big time. Bob Shrum, his campaign manager walked in to Kerry at 5:30 in the afternoon and said, “May I be the first to call you ‘Mr. President,'” and then, of course, all these states came in, Florida, Ohio, and Kerry lost. The Democrats said, “There’s fraud here. Look at the exit polls! The exit polls had our guy winning.” Everybody is saying: exit polls.

The real votes were counted. Those exit polls are not real votes. “Somebody tampered with it! Somebody tampered!” So, in order to be consistent, the Democrats would have to claim voter fraud now since the Democrat polling was so off. I mean, Obama was going to win by five to ten points, and Hillary wins by, what, two or three? But if the Democrats are going to be consistent, they need to look into voter fraud.

In this case, they may be right.

I cannot emphasize enough: They do all this stuff to make news and to shape news, rather than to reflect it.

But this is bad, because they were all wrong, and they were wrong huge — and they have got to find out what happened. You know, credibility is everything to these people, and they had it right on the Republican side, and they had it so wrong on the Democrat side.

There’s got to be a reason. Now, whether they’ll have the objectivity to go in and find the real reason and tell us, that’s another matter. But they’ll have to come up with something, and if it doesn’t look good for them, whatever they come up with, will be shaped and formed into something else, that they think we will buy.

Reference post: The Truth about POLLING and Political Correctness…