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Huckabee Strikes Partisan Tone at RNC; Blasts Biden, Defends Palin
September 02, 2008 1:07 PM
ABC News' Ursula Fahy reports: At breakfast with the Texas delegation at the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis-St. Paul, at least one Republican took off his "America" hat and struck a partisan tone.
Former Republican presidential candidate, and ex-Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, spent a couple of minutes Tuesday defending John McCain's vice presidential pick, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, chastising the media for focusing on her Monday statement about her pregnant 17-year-old daughter, and taking a shot at Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del.
Huckabee said Palin got more votes running for mayor in Alaska than Joe Biden got running for president, twice.
"She knows where she stands on issues that are important to so many of us," Huckabee said of Palin. Huckabee, a former Baptist minister, won the Iowa Republican primary in 2008 and garnered a lot of support from Christian evangelicals throughout the GOP primaries.
"When life begins and how to treat it, how to respect it, how to embrace it, how to elevate and celebrate every human life, and I'm so grateful that Sen. McCain has added not only to his extraordinary consistent record of voting for life issues, but to put someone on the ticket and team with him who will uphold and share those values and those important principles that mean so much to us.
"Over the past few days, we’ve been hearing all this stuff about how Gov. Palin doesn’t have experience. Let me tell you something, I can assure, having been a governor, myself, for 10 and a half years, she’s had more executive experience in two years than her counterpart Joe Biden has had in all the years that he’s been making speeches, because she’s been making decisions -- he’s been making just simple speeches," Huckabee told the crowd.
"In fact, I don’t know if you realize this, but Sarah Palin got more votes running for mayor in Wasilla, Alaska, than Joe Biden did in two quests for the presidency -- that oughta tell you something. I'm proud of her record as a reformer, as a leader -- somebody who believes in something that’s right, and I'm gonna tell you something. If the press believes that they can try to somehow move any of us in any direction by trying to smear her daughter, boy, have they picked on the wrong bunch of people, because I want you to understand, some of the chattering class still don’t quite get it. We appreciate a mother who gives the unconditional love and support that a daughter needs, deserves, and would want to have, and she has only affirmed our own appreciation for Sarah Palin," he said to applause. Huckabee, himself, is an ardent opponent to abortion rights.
"It's an unfortunate thing that the media has wanted to focus on things that have nothing to do with Sarah Palin's being a wonderful vice president for Sen. McCain, but we know what matters, and we know that when we face a tough crisis in our country, we are far better served by Sen. McCain and Sarah Palin, and that’s why I sense an enthusiasm and an energy in our party. There's going to be a kind of activity that we had hoped would happen, people knocking on doors and making phone calls and getting out there and getting out the vote."
September 2, 2008 in Vote 2008: Republicans | Permalink | User Comments (155)
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Good job, Huck...
Posted by: Jayhawk | Sep 2, 2008 1:12:24 PM
"She knows where she stands on issues that are important to so many of us," Huckabee said of Palin"
Hmmm......... So let's have some press interviews so that we can know
Posted by: Thinking | Sep 2, 2008 1:17:49 PM
Huckabee, I am finally proud of you. This is your golden moment statement. Let us get this ball rolling, and prevent our great country from becoming another god less Socialist State. BJDoc
Posted by: Boyd J. Hale M.D. | Sep 2, 2008 1:19:49 PM
Paulin is running away from media and she is not interested that people get to know her, she is hiding something but the media will find out, certainly many things came out already and the most importants issues are at she is a cessessionist and a poor mother. More to come out from this quick and dirty selection from porr old McCain. God save America from McPaulin.
Posted by: BKMC | Sep 2, 2008 1:23:29 PM
Thinking,
you and the other Obama supporters are not part of the "many of us".
Posted by: geevill | Sep 2, 2008 1:24:07 PM
this is what happens when you dont vet your picks...
i mean seriously, what executive experience does she have again? Tucker Bounds couldnt even state ONE thing she had ordered the alaskan guard to do...
this was a terrible pick it wasnt the pick mccain wanted, he was forced to do it, and now its blowing up in his face.
plus having a downs child, why would you ever want to be VP? You wont be able to properly give the child that you WANTED to have as much attention as they so desperately need....
You are giving the child life, and then taking away his life by not being there
just a stupid pick
she is a terrible pick she stomped all over mccains message he has been yelling for the last two months
this all comes down to judgment and mccain failed in his judgment here
Posted by: bhrandon | Sep 2, 2008 1:24:17 PM
Sara Polin should take care of her OWN family first before anything else, she shows that her family is on their own,so GOD save us from her decisions on somekind of disaster, people think,family first, Polin NO, PERIOD.
Marika from Texas
Posted by: marika | Sep 2, 2008 1:24:44 PM
This is what I was saying in a previous thread. Republicans are intentionally focusing on the teenage pregnancy.
By doing this, they are hoping the rest of us don't notice the ethics investigation and Palin's connection to a secessionist Alaskan political party.
Posted by: Paul | Sep 2, 2008 1:24:47 PM
Psa 26:4 I did not sit with liars, and I will not be found among hypocrites.
These so called evangelicals who are really political cronies hiding behind the cloth love the Republican Party more than they love God. They don't have any family values. But we all know if that were Michelle Obama's or Hillary Clinton's pregnant teenage daughter Tony Perkins and others would be pointing a finger at them and saying what a poor example they are setting. They would be raking these mothers across the hotest of coals.
As a born again, bible-toting Christian, I'm offended by these hypocrites
Posted by: Mary | Sep 2, 2008 1:26:08 PM
Huckabee: "In fact I don’t know if you realize this but Sarah Palin got more votes running for mayor in Wasilla, Alaska than Joe Biden did in two quests for the presidency..."
If so, then there was massive voter fraud, because Wasilla has less people than Biden's Senate office.
Posted by: Paul | Sep 2, 2008 1:27:09 PM
Huck-
If you and your fellow Evangelical preachers would spend as much time preaching that pre-marital and extra-marital sex is a sin, then maybe you wouldn't have to focus so much attention on having your congregants worry about abortion being a sin.
Thanks for splitting the conservative vote and giving us McCain. And your "anybody but Romney" is old and we see now just how hypocritical you are. He has a stellar family and family values. But now we are stuck with someone who lacks experience and has all this baggage.
Posted by: Political Dean | Sep 2, 2008 1:28:05 PM
Where does she stand on earmarks- apparently thats important to McCain? Tee hee! This is where the religious right get it wrong. Abortion just isn't a huge issue, in terms of public policy, to a lot of American people, and it makes the religious right sound condescending when that is the only issue they can talk about. Are they not bothered about social justice for instance? And maybe Mike Huckabee wants to talk to Palin about environmental issues.
Posted by: markymark | Sep 2, 2008 1:29:14 PM
Well said.
Posted by: s.b. | Sep 2, 2008 1:30:23 PM
And those issues are the economy, health care, foreign policy....and her stance is, no health care plan, more big oil profits and help the rich, and well we know that she hasn't had to deal with foreign policy, right? Its a sorry state of affairs to try to push some novice who's only claim to fame is a being a soccer mom, shooting guns, having a retarded child in spite of knowing she was pregnant with one and oh a pregnant teen-age daughter who WILL have that baby and marry the father (if he wants to marry her I presume) of course since Sarah likes to shoot guns he better. Puh leeze, I think John McCain realized he shouldn't be president and this is the best way to lose.
Posted by: Brenda | Sep 2, 2008 1:31:38 PM
geevill,
We know this already. Most of us have never been part of the GOP plan.
Thanks for your concern though.
Posted by: Thinking | Sep 2, 2008 1:31:40 PM
test
Posted by: Kitty | Sep 2, 2008 1:32:50 PM
Paul,
You've got to investigate the ethics of earmarking millions of dollars to the employer who gave the freshman Senator's wife a 260% salary raise soon after he became a US Senator.
Posted by: d0 | Sep 2, 2008 1:33:29 PM
considering the grand hypocrisy of obama, palin is comparatively genuine
Posted by: chris | Sep 2, 2008 1:34:13 PM
Instrument of "change" Joe Biden has been in Washington D.C. since Sarah Palin was NINE years old.
She took on corruption, while Obama took "from" corrupt Tony Rezko.
Obama manages (he said) a campaign that has a budget much larger than that of Wassily, but failes to mention that Sarah's STATE budget is 80 times larger than his CAMPAIGN MANAGER runs.
Good pick politically, and I think Sarah Palin can learn in office as VP, while Obama's learning would come in the #1 positions.
Republicans, get off your butts and DONATE and VOTE.
Posted by: Original Pechanga | Sep 2, 2008 1:34:27 PM
If so, then there was massive voter fraud, because Wasilla has less people than Biden's Senate office.
Posted by: Paul | Sep 2, 2008
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Yup, that's how many votes Joe got. The rest were stolen by Zerobameus, God of Nothingness.
Posted by: d0 | Sep 2, 2008 1:35:09 PM
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