Posted by
GenXDad on Friday, December 14, 2007 1:33:12 PM
Rich Lowry
gets it right.
The comparisons between Mike Huckabee and Howard Dean are valid. Both were small-time governors of inconsequential states, both represent the most unapplealing aspect of their parties' bases (Dean the McGovern Wing, Huck the Religious Social Conservative), both have an astounding lack of gravitas on foreign policy matters and downright goofy economic proposals. And both would be (or would have been) disaster for their respective parties.
Lowry says:
"Like Dean, Huckabee is an under-vetted former governor who is manifestly unprepared to be president of the United States. Like Dean, he is rising toward the top of polls in a crowded field based on his appeal to a particular niche of his party. As with Dean, his vulnerabilities in a general election are so screamingly obvious that it's hard to believe that primary voters, once they focus seriously on their choice, will nominate him."
While some
retarded Evangelicals see Giuliani as the real enemy, this kind of hyperbole does nothing to help us againt the true enemy - Clinton or Obama, who would be a complete disaster for this nation. A monumental disaster, the kind of which should silence any sane Republican from saying there's no real difference between Giulianai and either of the other two (there's a WORLD of difference, especially between Rudy and the woefully unprepared and ulta-liberal Obama).
So the question becomes, is a vote for any Republican a vote for the
Democrat? And here, we have to say, yes. Seriously, aside from Rudy, McCain and Mitt, any other Republican nominee is just fodder for the eventual Democratic President.
Consider what President Bush has done. He pulled the nation out of a recession, cut taxes dramatically, beefed up our security (no more terrorist attacks since 9-11), appointed two of the best conservative Supreme Court justeices our nation has ever seen, put al Quaeda on the run, toppled Saddam and, thanks to the surge, is putting the peices in place for a stable Iraq. Yes, he's made mistakes, but do we want to undo all of this? Do we want to go back to the Clinton tax rates, the head-in-the-sand approach to fighiting terrorism and Ruth Bader Ginsbergs as far as the eye can see?
And it'll be worse. Much, much worse. Think Hilarycare. Think Kyoto. Think Bill Clinton back in the White House. Think massive Federal spending. Think an al Quaeda base in Iraq, and negotiations with the Taliban and Iran.
A vote for Huckabee is a vote for the Democrats, plain and simple. And it's a vote for four years of national and world disaster. This election isn't some high school student body popularity contest, this is the real deal. What goes on will impact you, your family's budget and the future we leave for our children.
It's not "anyone but Rudy," it's ANYONE BUT THE DEMOCRATS. And there are only three "anyone's" that fit that bill. Huckabee isn't one of them.
Vote carefully. Your life may very well depend on it.