Ronald Reagan’s 11th Commandment:
“Thou shalt not speak ill of a fellow Republican.”
Romney: Huckabee Critique Un-Republican
Dec 15 12:29 PM US/Eastern
By JIM KUHNHENNHUMBOLDT, Iowa (AP) – Mitt Romney accused Republican presidential rival Mike Huckabee of “running from the wrong party” for criticizing President Bush’s foreign policy as an “arrogant bunker mentality.”
Romney defended Bush against Huckabee’s charge, which the former Arkansas governor leveled in the January-February issue of the respected journal Foreign Affairs.“I can’t believe he’d say that,” Romney said to a gathering of about 100 supporters in a restaurant here. “I had to look again-did this come from Barack Obama or from Hillary Clinton? Did it come from John Edwards? No, it was Governor Huckabee.”
Romney has been aggressively criticizing Huckabee, stressing differences over immigration and economic policy in hopes of recapturing a lead he had enjoyed in Iowa for most of the year. Huckabee’s Foreign Affairs article, made public Friday, offered another line of attack.
“I’m the last person to say that this administration is subject to an arrogant, bunker mentality that is counterproductive here and abroad,” he said. “The truth of the matter is this president has kept us safe these past six years and that has not been easy to do.”
Still, Romney carefully stressed that he believed the administration had engaged in missteps during the war in Iraq and said his defense of Bush did not mean he would follow the president’s current policy to the letter.
“We were under-prepared and under-planned and understaffed,” he said of the war following the fall of Saddam Hussein. “There is no question we weren’t perfectly managed.”
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Is Huckabee violating Reagan’s 11th commandment for criticizing George W. Bush?
Is Romney violating Reagan’s 11th commandment for criticizing Mike Huckabee for criticizing George W. Bush?
Or is this acceptable and expected political discourse in a Presidential campaign?
When .. the decisions are made as to who the candidates will be, then the 11th commandment prevails and everybody goes to work, and that is: Thou shalt not speak ill of another Republican. Ronald Reagan
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I recollect that the President swears an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution, not to avoid speaking ill of one’s political party.
Huckabee’s a repulsive Republican radical who defines the words “know nothing.”
He wears his religious bigotry on his face, and he lies about his “theology degree,” which his campaign now admits he doesn’t have.
The last thing we need is a “Christian Republican Party,” but that’s about where we are, thanks to Huck and Romney.
They’ve make religion a test for political office, and that’s specifically outlawed in the Constitution.
I may wind up voting for Rudy, but I never would vote for Huck.
I meant to say I may wind up voting for Mitt, but never for Huck.
“They’ve make religion a test for political office, and that’s specifically outlawed in the Constitution.”
Please clarify this for me. Where is bringing up religion in a presidential campaign specifically outlawed in the Constitution. In the Constitution it says “Congress shall make no law” not that a presidential candidate can not state and campaign on his religion. That is freedom of speech.
Personally I am not a fan of religious based campaigning. I think that some one’s religion should only be brought into a campaign if it impacts policy (which often it does), not as a divisive matter in and of itself. In Romney’s case, I am of a different religion but it is pertinent that his religious beliefs drive him to the same political views I espouse. I do not like Huck’s approach of trying to tell me I should vote against Romney for strictly religious purposes.
Article about the subject of religion and the Republican nomination contest in Sunday’s Gazette. But the Gazette and its website is so poor that when I went to try and find the article (which ran on it’s opinion page) I couldn’t even get to Sunday’s edition. For some reason all it pulled up was last Wednesday’s stuff.
The Gazette really needs some help.
With all this Huckamania, can anyone name one of his policies that they like off the top of their head?
that he is not Rudy Giuliani!!!
But aside from that, I dont know much about him. I have to say I am liking Romney best right now.